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Day in the Life

Jan 1, 1840

Journal Entry

January 01, 1840 ~ Wednesday


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JAN 1st 1840


I find myself in company with
Elder's John Taylor & Theodore Turley
on board of the packet ship Oxford of the
Black Bull line on our way from New york
to Liverpool to fulfill a commandment of god
in preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Nations
of Europe. We are in Long 42.40 We have a
vary rough sea, High winds blustering & cloudy.
I am about 1,900 miles from both Liverpool
& New york being in the centre of the Atlantic
as it is called 3800 miles from New york to
Liverpool. We Left New york dock on the 19th
day of Dec 1839 & sailed on the 20th So time rolls
along & waiteth for no man


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Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1837 mentions
Apostle
Turley, Theodore
10 Apr 1801 - 12 Aug 1871
138 mentions

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Atlantic Ocean
Europe
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
New York City, New York County, New York

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Mission - 1840 Record of British Converts
Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
JAN 1st 1840. So time rolls along vary rough sea, high winds, Blustering & cloudy

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November 1839
Times and Seasons, official Church newspaper, first published in Nauvoo, Illinois (continuously published until February 1846).
1840
Church membership is 16,800; population of the 26 United States is 17,100,000.

Jan 1, 1840