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Day in the Life

Sep 12, 1839

Journal Entry

September 12, 1839 ~ Thursday

12th The captain left the harbor with his boat at 6 oclock AM the wind still was high &
the lake rough through the day we could not make any harbor untill we reached Buffalo which
was at midnight. the steem boat run into a schooner while entering a harbour which tore the
ganway fonders to atams of the fulton & instantly broke off the gib boom of the schooner
but I was truly glad to reach Buffalo after lying three days & nights from Cleveland to Buffalo 163

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Buffalo, Erie County, New York
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Lake Erie, United States

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Autobiography 1858 Deseret News

gale, and did not reach Buffalo until the . I traveled to Albany on a canal boat; had the ague daily, was very sick; had no companion except sectarian priests, who were daily lying about the Mormons. I took stage at Albany for Farmington, Connecticut, on the night of

Autobiography 1865 Millennial Star

I travelled to Albany on a canal boat; had the ague daily, was very sick; had no companions except sectarian priests, who were daily ly- ing about the "Mormons." I took stage at Albany for Farmington, Con-

Autobiography 1857 Draft 1

had a severe gale and did not reach Buffalo untill the I travelled to Albany on a canal boat had the ague daily, was very sick, had no companion except sectarian priest who was daily lying about ^the mormons^ mormonism I took stage ^at Albany^ for Farmington

Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)

12th The captain left the harbour with his boat at 6 oclock AM. the wind still was high & the lake rough thro ugh the day we could not make any harbour untill we reached Buffalo which was at midnight the Steam- boat run unto a schooner (before entering the harbour)

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November 1839
Times and Seasons, official Church newspaper, first published in Nauvoo, Illinois (continuously published until February 1846).

Sep 12, 1839