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Feb 7, 1840

Journal Entry

February 07, 1840 ~ Friday

7th Friday Walked to Stoke & Dined with Brother James
Grocott
in Cross St end of Thomas St After Dining, Brother
Grocott accompanied me all through Copelands pot
works, & it was truly a great curiosity to see
all kinds of earthren, crockery, & the best of china
ware made, commencing at the stone, clay, & bones
in their first state & go through every process untill
it is finished. Firstly enter gate, visit engine that
carries all the works from thence to ^pounding^ grinding stone &
bones, gringing, mixing, sifting, drying, turning or mould-
ing it into every kind of ware, fireing, printing, stamping,
Gilding with gold, glazing, fireing, pollishing, storeing, selling
& aggrandizing themselves with the profits thereof.

cost of one set of china for Dining & tea for about
20 or 30 persons £1100 or $5,500. this at Copelands
& Garrets factory whare as good china is made as
any in the world it is much superior to that made
in China. Brother John Rowley made me a presant
of a china Box as a token of Friendship with the follow[ing]
inscription upon it in gold

Willford & Pheabe Woodruff
A Present from
Stoke upon Trent England
1840

Also with three small Bottles with Phebe
Sarah Emma, & Eunice, name on them

Also three china Pitchers containing the
following names

Willford Woodruff
Phebe W. Woodruff
Sarah Emma Woodruff

I took supper with Br Grocott & preached in the
evening at Brother Humes 5th Door Canning St S.
spent the night at Brother John Rowleys Distanc 3 m

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Webster, Eunice Hart Woodruff
19 Jun 1821 - 15 Jun 1853
258 mentions
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Rowley, John
1841-1893
21 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
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Woodruff, Sarah Emma
14 Jul 1838 - 17 Jul 1840
160 mentions
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Church membership is 16,800; population of the 26 United States is 17,100,000.

Feb 7, 1840