Our crops became free booty to their horses, hogs, cattle, &c. was chased
by about sixty of these ruffians 5 miles (or there was about 60 when they
commeced and dwindl^e^d down to 62.) I fled south and my was driven
north to and for three weeks I knew not whether my family was
dead or alive, neither did they know what was my fate, at one time
I was three days without food. When I found my family I found them
on the north bank of the under a rag carpet tent sort
short of food and raiment, in this deploriabl condition on the 27th
of Dec my wife bore me a . And according to the councl of the
church on the 12th of Jan 1834 I again left my family, my wife with
a babe two weeks old and started to Ohio and to
N y a distance of 1300 miles of which I have a daily journal.
I filled this mission and returned to my family on the 20th of June
after a most laborious and fateiegueing journey of foive months and
eight days I was permitted by the kind hand of providence, who had
sustained me through my journeyings, to spend a p[e]aceable night at home
with my family who received me with feelings of gratitude towards
their who had so kindly preserved and sustained them
under the adver[s]e circumstances in which they had been left.
The result of this mission. The journeyings of the company that went
up to redeem Zion. The p^l^ace that I occupied in that company together
with the , and breaking out of the cholera.
With all these things you are perfectly familiar, as also with my labors in
the church, and on house and I therefore pass hastily over them
to my next mission. You will recollect after all the jobs on the house
whare finised that in the fall of 1834 you left my house on a mission
to . The next Dec I moved seven miles east where I bought a
farm and spent the time till the 13th of March 1835 in preaching in
the church and out, for many miles around haveing been counsiled
by Br to labor in that region of country meeting often in
council and prepairing things necessary for my family, and after having
done all that duty required I started on the above date to the east, and
Our crops became free booty to their horses, hogs, cattle, &c. was chased
by about sixty of these ruffians 5 miles (or there was about 60 when they
commeced and dwindled down to 6.) I fled south and my was driven
north to and for three weeks I knew not whether my family was
dead or alive, neither did they know what was my fate, at one time
I was three days without food. When I found my family I found them
on the north bank of the under a rag carpet tent
short of food and raiment, in this deploriabl condition on the 27th
of Dec my wife bore me a . And according to the councl of the
church on the 12th of Jan 1834 I again left my family, my wife with
a babe two weeks old and started to Ohio and to
N y a distance of 1300 miles of which I have a daily journal.
I filled this mission and returned to my family on the 20th of June
after a most laborious and fatiegueing journey of five months and
eight days I was permitted by the kind hand of providence, who had
sustained me through my journeyings, to spend a peaceable night at home
with my family who received me with feelings of gratitude towards
their who had so kindly preserved and sustained them
under the adverse circumstances in which they had been left.
The result of this mission. The journeyings of the company that went
up to redeem Zion. The place that I occupied in that company together
with the , and breaking out of the cholera.
With all these things you are perfectly familiar, as also with my labors in
the church, and on house and I therefore pass hastily over them
to my next mission. You will recollect after all the jobs on the house
whare finised that in the fall of 1834 you left my house on a mission
to . The next Dec I moved seven miles east where I bought a
farm and spent the time till the 13th of March 1835 in preaching in
the church and out, for many miles around having been counsiled
by Br to labor in that region of country meeting often in
council and prepairing things necessary for my family, and after having
done all that duty required I started on the above date to the east, and