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HISTORY
OF
WILFORD WOODRUFF.
-[FROM HIS OWN PEN.]-

May 14—I left Boston, and walked
some thirty miles to Holliston; staid
at Deacon Haven's, and preached. I
walked to Providence, R. I., from
thence took steamer to New York, and
arrived on the 18th. Met and at-
tended meetings with brother O. Pratt
until the 27th, when I went up the
North river to Newburgh, and preach-
ed in several towns in New York and
New Jersey, and walked across the
country to Farmington, Connecticut,
and arrived at my father's June 11,
1838.

I commenced preaching at my fa-
ther's house. July 1st, I baptized six
persons in Farmington river, inclu-
ding my father, stepmother and my
only sister, Eunice; also cousin Seth
Woodruff, aunt Anna Cossett and
Dwight Webster, a Methodist class
leader, who was boarding at my fa-
ther's.

When the Patriarch Joseph Smith,
sen., gave me my blessing, he said
I should bring my father's household
into the kingdom of God, which words
were fulfilled this day.

I confirmed those baptized, and
organized this small Branch of the

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HISTORY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. [FROM HIS OWN PEN.]

May 14—I left Boston, and walked some thirty miles to Holliston; staid at Deacon Haven's, and preached. I walked to Providence, R. I., from thence took steamer to New York, and arrived on the 18th. Met and attended meetings with brother O. Pratt until the 27th, when I went up the North river to Newburgh, and preached in several towns in New York and New Jersey, and walked across the country to Farmington, Connecticut, and arrived at my father's June 11, 1838.

I commenced preaching at my father's house. July 1st, I baptized six persons in Farmington river, including my father, stepmother and my only sister, Eunice; also cousin Seth Woodruff, aunt Anna Cossett and Dwight Webster, a Methodist class leader, who was boarding at my father's.

When the Patriarch Joseph Smith, sen., gave me my blessing, he said I should bring my father's household into the kingdom of God, which words were fulfilled this day.

I confirmed those baptized, and organized this small Branch of the