be spoken at all times it was not known that I was old enough to go for my
self till I had hired out for $36 a month and was half way to Sacketts Harbor
again. I here served three months received an honerable discharge and got home
with over $100. I now concluded that I was man enough to look out a better
country than the one we lived in accordingly in Dec I shouldered my knapsack
and traveled westward 170 miles and stoped in Henrietta 6 miles north of
Rochester and a prettier or better country I never have seen before or since
I was gone from home about one year and the extraordinry circumstances of
this year meeted me about $500. I returned and my father and brothers moved
to the same place I was now 20 years old and my father gave me my time
and I went to work here and there and every where, or wherever I could do
the best. In 1819 I went to Upper Canada from there to Mich and back to
Henrietta having been gone about one year. In 1823 I marreied a wife named
Harriet Benton daughter of John Benton and Sarah Bradley moved 60
miles south into the genesee country and after having two children moved
to Warrensville Cuyahoga Co Ohio I resided in this place till 1829 about
the month of May when I heard Sidney Rigdon preach what was then
called the Rigdonite doctrine after hearing him go through the principle
of baptism for the remission of sins I went forward and was baptzised by
his hands amidst the scorns and derision of several hundred souls and
thus became became a bold and fearless defender of the Rigdonite doctrine
I should have said up ^to^ this period of my life I had never imbraced any particu-
lar tenit of doctrine; my ^wife^ had been a presbyterian and I frequently attended meetings
with her and had my three first children sprinkled but never believeved in
any of the religeious creeds of the day in consequence of their not carrying out
the whole doctrine of the Apostles ever believing that it took as much to save
a man in one age of the world as an other. In the month of August my
wife, John Murdock, and many others ware ^baptized^ by Sidney Rigdon. I now began
to look at the doctrine of the Apostles pretty closely especially that part contain
ed in the second chapter of the ^acts of the^ Apostles where they had all things common
In consideration of this doctrine I went to Kirtland about 20 mils to see
Br Isaac Morley and Br Billings after some conversation on the subject we

be spoken at all times it was not known that I was old enough to go for my self till I had hired out for $36 a month and was half way to Sacketts Harbor again. I here served three months received an honerable discharge and got home with over $100. I now concluded that I was man enough to look out a better country than the one we lived in accordingly in Dec I shouldered my knapsack and traveled westward 170 miles and stoped in Henrietta 6 miles north of Rochester and a prettier or better country I never have seen before or since I was gone from home about one year and the extraordinry circumstances of this year meeted me about $500. I returned and my father and brothers moved to the same place I was now 20 years old and my father gave me my time and I went to work here and there and every where, or wherever I could do the best. In 1819 I went to Upper Canada from there to Mich and back to Henrietta having been gone about one year. In 1823 I married a wife named Harriet Benton daughter of John Benton and Sarah Bradley moved 60 miles south into the genesee country and after having two children moved to Warrensville Cuyahoga Co Ohio I resided in this place till 1829 about the month of May when I heard Sidney Rigdon preach what was then called the Rigdonite doctrine after hearing him go through the principle of baptism for the remission of sins I went forward and was baptised by his hands amidst the scorns and derision of several hundred souls and thus became a bold and fearless defender of the Rigdonite doctrine I should have said up to this period of my life I had never imbraced any particular tenit of doctrine; my wife had been a presbyterian and I frequently attended meetings with her and had my three first children sprinkled but never believeved in any of the religious creeds of the day in consequence of their not carrying out the whole doctrine of the Apostles ever believing that it took as much to save a man in one age of the world as an other. In the month of August my wife, John Murdock, and many others ware baptized by Sidney Rigdon. I now began to look at the doctrine of the Apostles pretty closely especially that part contain ed in the second chapter of the acts of the Apostles where they had all things common In consideration of this doctrine I went to Kirtland about 20 mils to see Br Isaac Morley and Br Billings after some conversation on the subject we