26th Sunday I attended meeting at the tabernacl
President Kimball Preached in the forenoon upon
a variety of subjects & Aaron Far in the aftern[oon]
~ Monday
27th I left the city to day & started on a misson
to visit the saints in the north. I rode to the session settlement & spent the night with Bishop Stoker I did not preach to the people as the school
house was occupied with a corturt to settle a
difficulty with a Gentile 10 mls
~ Tuesday
28 I rode to Farmington & spent the night with Ezra Clark I preached to the people & had a good
meeting Bishop Brownel presides over the people
in that place the people are makeing great improvmts
there they have a court House built & many good
buildings going up 6 mls
~ Wednesday
29th I rode to Bishop kayssettlement & preached
to the people they were doing well I spent
the night with Brother Booth 7 mils
~ Thursday
30th I rode to South Webber & visited the
school in the afternoon & preached in the evening
Bishop Kington presids I spent the night at
Brother Mark Halls 10 mils
~ Friday
Nov ^Dec^ 1st I rode to North Webber & spent the
night with Bishop Wadsworth I preached to
the people in the evening 3 mils
~ Saturday
2nd I rode to Ogden the first time I ever
visited the place It is a large settlement & th[r]i[v]ing
I spent the night at James Brown & preached to
the people in the evening the principle subjects I treated
upon was the subject of tithing the poor fund & the esstab-
lishment of schools, building their wall contrasting
their present position with former days 8 miles
~ Sunday
3rd Sunday I rode to Binghams Fort & preached in the
morning dined with Bishop Bingham I found this
to be a flourishing place well calculated for a large
city farming land good & abundant their present
population is 100 families much wheat raised but
did not learn the amount the bishop had ownly 30
bushels of tithing wheat & 15 tons of Hay the remaindr
26th Sunday I attended meeting at the tabernacl
President Kimball Preached in the forenoon upon
a variety of subjects & Aaron Far in the afternoon
~ Monday
[FIGURE] 27th I left the city to day & started on a mission
to visit the saints in the north. I rode to the
session settlement & spent the night with Bishop
Stoker I did not preach to the people as the school
house was occupied with a court to settle a
difficulty with a Gentile 10 mls
~ Tuesday
28 I rode to Farmington & spent the night with
Ezra Clark I preached to the people & had a good
meeting Bishop Brownel presides over the people
in that place the people are makeing great improvements
there they have a court House built & many good
buildings going up 6 mils
~ Wednesday
29th I rode to Bishop kays settlement & preached
to the people they were doing well I spent
the night with Brother Booth 7 mils
~ Thursday
30th I rode to south webber & visited the
school in the after noon & preached in the evening
Bishop Kington presides I spent the night at
Brother Mark Halls 10 mils
~ Friday
Dec 1st I rode to North Webber & spent the
night with Bishop Wadsworth I preached to
the people in the evening 3 mils
~ Saturday
2nd I rode to Ogden the first time I ever
visited the place It is a large settlement & thriving
I spent the night at James Brown & preached to
the people in the evening the principle subjects I treated
upon was the subject of tithing the poor fund & the esstablishment of schools, building their wall contrasting
their present position with former days 8 miles
~ Sunday
3rd Sunday I rode to Binghams Fort & preached in the
morning dined with Bishop Bingham I found this
to be a flourishing place well calculated for a large
city farming land good & abundant their present
population is 100 families much wheat raised but
did not learn the amount the bishop had ownly 30
bushels of tithing wheat & 15 tons of Hay the remainder
"Journal (January 1, 1854 – December 31, 1859)," November 19, 1854 - December 3, 1854, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 25, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/glZ