& it was an Effecting sight to see such a strange sight about 500 people enter the City of the Great Salt who had traveled on foot 1500 miles having drawn there hand carts all the way women Children & old men had drawn their bedding, clothing & food, the whole distance & this company of poor people from England had travelled this whole distance in 9 weeks they were covered with dust & some worn down but cheerful they had beat any horse or ox team during ...

& shall be an active assistance unto Bishop Hunter in gathering the Tithing of the people that the Temples of our God may be built & his works carried on. Let your heart be comforted you shall be blessed with evry hgood thing your heart shall desire & your heart words shall be like a two Edged sword among the people & we seal you up unto Eternal Life & no man shall take your Crown we seal all these Blessings upon your head in the name of Jesus Christ ...

October 15, 1855 ~ Monday Oct 15th Monday night P. P. Pratt W. Woodruff G. A. Smith & Erastus Snow of the Twelve & others met at the House of P. P. Pratts to organize the Territory of Utah into missionary districts & appoints missionaries to the various fields of Labour the following are ^is^ the division of the Territory in 6 districts Utah Co 1: Juab Sanpete, & Millard Co[un]ties ...

September 19, 1850 ~ Thursday 19th we started early in the morning to find our camp we travled 5 miles & met two of the Brethren on their way back to Woolley camp to enquire after us & if they did not hear from us were calculating to raise all the armed men they possibly could & go into the mountains after us but we soon arived at our camp which ended their fears concern ing us and their shouts of Joy on our arival made the wolkin ring we ...

November 13, 1853 ~ Sunday Nov 14th Sunday E. T. Benson spoke to the people in the morning & at 2 oclock the Twelve met with the company of Elders that were appointed to go to Green River to esstablish a station at that place we blessed them & set them apart for the work they were Addressed by W Woodruff, & P. P. Pratt who gave them go[o]d council this is the 2nd company for that place making 90 ...

May 10th that the work of the Latter Day Saints was spreading in England they had again opened the preaching places which had been closed through persecution he left the Mo river about the 3rd of May. he saw no supply or trains or troops on the way but said Congress had passed a Bill giving the President power to raise four Rigments of volunteers to go against Utah President Buchanan is determined to do all in ...

Aug 9th of the United States as we always have done then our difficulties will be settelled as far as they can be but this people will not be driven from these mountains we shall fight first. we do take the liberty to speak of the acts of men when they debase themselves by their acts, but this People hold the Constitution of the United States sacred. Now should I speak about Judge Eckles who came & spent the winter in Green River Country ...

October 25, 1858 ~ Monday Oct 25 I went to the Church stray pen to get a Durham Bull calf which Brother Wm Rydalch let me have he had never been halter broak & we put a lariet on his neck & he nearly choaked to death before we could do any thing with him he faught us with great force I got him home & shut him up & fed him I then assisted in cleaning out four hog pens whare the Hogs was belly deep ...

Oct 31 should take him He was to go east to the Devils gate & return but he met the Eastern mail & returned with it while at Green river stoped to camp & said that MCDonald had committed Murder & he should arest him MCDonald herd of it & went to him & drew his revolver & shot at Scoty the ball passed through the upper part of his sholder Scoty then shot M.C.Donald through the neck & he fell dead it was ...

Nov 29 Grand Jury have no business to enquire into any thing before the leaving of the pease commissioners left this territory neither the Judge or Jery has nothing to do with any thing that transpired before that event so this ends the matter of trying to bring up Brigham Young on treason Judge Sinclair ruled that Green river county was not in his Jurisdiction. I spent the evening with President Young & the committee on the Deseret Alphabet November 30, 1858 ~ ...