Letter to John Mills Whitaker, 22 April 1887
Salt Lake City, Utah,
John W. Whitaker,
Dear Brother
Yesterday Mail brought me
11 Letters, among the Number was your vary interesting
Letter of April 15 which I have read with much
interest. the Events you speak of are fresh in my
Memory. In my boyhood I went on board of A steamer
in the City of Hartford my Native state said to be the
first steamer that crossed the Atlantic ocean;
In the war of 1812 My father took me onto the ridge-
pole of our House, one sunday to hear the cannonading
of the British fleet, that came into New London &
burnt the town Yes you have refered to many courts
that have taken place in my day. In my day Nearly
all grain was cut in the field with a sickle. I remember
when the first grain was cut with a grain cradle Had
a Man gone into a grain field with a self binder in
my boyhood the people would have thought the judgment
day had come. The first stove I Ever sayw in my
boyhood was made from Shoot Iron By my Grand
Father Hart, and set on Brick some like the Boxstand
of to day it was thought to be a great invetion; but
stoves have improved much since. Concerning religious
Matters I never Joined any church untill I heard a
sermon preached By Zera Pulsipher A Mormon Elder in 1833
