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Day in the Life

Sep 2, 1843

Journal Entry

September 02, 1843 ~ Saturday

2nd We walked to New Haven & called upon
Lewis Allen No. 10 Collage st, we dined at
Brown's Tavern I then took the parting hand
with Elder Davis & took the stage for
Farmington I had many peculiar reflections
while passing through this town whare I had
spent much of my youth I arived at my
fathers house in the evening & found my
father & mother well, Eunice & Br Webster
was better than they had been I was glad to
see my fathers Family one more & enter under
the roof of my youth it gives me peculiar
reflections to pass through the town & over the
places whare I have spent my youth in company
with Brothers & friends who now sleep in the
dust I spent the night at Father Woodruff
I found my Father attending Both saw & grist
mill alone although he was 65 years of age
[FIGURE] I received a letter from Mrs Woodruff
which I was glad to get felt to rejoice to
hear from my family again Distance of the day 30 m

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
545 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Azubah Hart
31 Jul 1792 - 20 Mar 1851
252 mentions
Family
1 mention
Host
Webster, Dwight
13 Apr 1814 - 19 Aug 1868
126 mentions
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Webster, Eunice Hart Woodruff
19 Jun 1821 - 15 Jun 1853
258 mentions
Family
Alling, Lewis
23 Feb 1801 - 4 Sep 1877
4 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1551 mentions
Family

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Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1
my native place on the and

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Sep 2, 1843