2nd I spent most of the day in the Endowment House. We Baptized
436. D H Wells sealed 33 couple & W Woodruff 48 couple for the Dead
~ Thursday to ~ Saturday
3, 4, & 5 I spent the time on the farm weading potatos. In my leasure
moments of late I have read the life of Daniel Boone the great explorer
& pioneer of Kentucky and afterwords Early setler of Louisianna
and it is vary strange that Kentucky should have cheated him out
of his land & home after locating the country & fighting Indians 46 years
Also the Lands in Louisannna that the spanish Government gave him
was taken from him By Congres and he never had any land given
him untill he was about 80 years old and a short time before his
death his life was a remarkable one. He lived 3 Months in the wilderness
of Kentucky 500 miles from any white men without bread, sugar,
or salt in a camp surrounded with Indians and was taken
twice a prisioner by them & escaped Built a fort gathered his family
and white Emigration to it & maintained it through many years
of Indian wars & was then deprived of his home By Lawyiers
and Land speculators
~ Sunday
Aug 6. Sunday I wrote a letter to Susan I attended meeting at
the Tabernacle in the afternoon. O Pratt preached on the fulfillment of prophecy in
these vallies of the Mountans one hour & 20 M I met my Quorum for prayer
July 26 1876
sealed to me Joseph F Smith sealed 11, & D H Wells sealed 29 persons
to me also 22 to other person Total 51. W Woodruff sealed 10 persons
~ Thursday
27. I run the Reaping machine to day and commenced cuting Barley
2nd I spent most of the day in the Endowment House. We Baptized
436. D H Wells sealed 33 couple & W Woodruff 48 couple for the Dead
~ Thursday to ~ Saturday
3, 4, & 5 I spent the time on the farm weading potatos. In my leasure
moments of late I have read the life of Daniel Boone the great explorer
& pioneer of Kentucky and afterwords Early setler of Louisianna
and it is vary strange that Kentucky should have cheated him out
of his land & home after locating the Country & fighting Indians 46 years
Also the Lands in Louisannna that the spanish Government gave him
was taken from him By Congres and he never had any land given
him untill he was about 80 years old and a short time before his
death his life was a remarkable one He lived 3 Months in the wilderness
of Kentucky 500 miles from any white men without bread, sugar,
or salt in a camp surrounded with Indians and was taken
twice a prisioner by them & escaped Built a fort gathered his family
and white Emigration to it & maintained it through many years
of Indian wars & was then deprived of his home By Lawyiers
and Land speculators
~ Sunday
Aug 6. Sunday [FIGURE] I wrote a letter to Susan I attended meeting at
the Tabernacle in the afternoon. O Pratt preached on the fulfillment of Prophecy in
these vallies of the Mountan one hour & 20 Minutes I met my Quorum for prayer
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