could not accomplish it but I spent the day
Packing up
March 21, 1846 ~ Saturday
21st I also spent the day packing up I was
almost sick Phebe had a poor turn of the
nose bleading she often spoke of her Mother
It created a great bustle & confusion about the
house packing up & many calling to visit
I was about weary at night Mr Samuel
Deming called to see me, Also Henry
Woodford
March 22, 1846 ~ Sunday
22nd [FIGURE] Sunday I wrote two letters one to
Br Little of Peterborough one to Br Hardy
I had an exeeding busy day in finishing
packing up & preparing for our journey
many visiters came in to take the Parting
hand with us. After we got packed up
we drew down the waggon by hand
& loaded it up so as to be ready in the
morning we then bid fare well to the
House & went to Jennett Stedmans & Father, Mother, little Phebe, And myself
spent the night
March 23, 1846 ~ Monday
23rd [FIGURE] Farewell we arose early in the morning
to start on our Journey took
Breakfast & bid fare well to the town of Farmington And all the inhabitants thereoff
we were taken to new Britain in A waggon
our company consisted of Father And Mother
Woodruff And Betsey Cossett who accompanys
them in gathering with the saints As her Mother is dead. Also little Phebe & myself
making 4 of us in Number It was A
"Journal (January 1, 1845 – December 31, 1846)," March 21, 1846 - March 23, 1846, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 28, 2023, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/1wQ3
