March 13 I was pressed in spirit to go to Quincy Illinois and visit the the saints who had fled their from their persecuters in Missouri I immediately ^March 13^ I took my wife ^Family^ & child into my waggon and started on the 12th March and arived ^March 13 I took my family and started for Quincy where I arived^ in Quincy on the 16. I dined with Emma Smith at Judge Clevelands I then went on the bank of ...

[sideways text] Copy of A letter written to A W Babbitt Esqr Jan 21st 1850 [end of sideways text] Cambridgeport Mass Jan 21st 1850 Dear Sir Yours of Jan 16th has just come to hand and I must Confess that I am much surprised at its contents and do not understand it. and I feel think it needs some wisdom to answer such letters in a right & proper manner lest misun- derstanding arise of an unpleasant nature between men who are endeavoring to bring to pass the same object. It ...

bounded into the water to me stark naked excecpting a loose cloth around their legs but I put a stop to all disorder as fast as possible. & again I am Having a mighty struggle against this [Methodist] power of falling down like a dead man stiff as a stake which is in some of the preachers as well as the people. I have to handle all these things in wisdom. among the number that I have & are Baptzing are some large farmers having 3 or 400 acres of land I have Baptzed sone constables as well as ...

Terre Haute Feb 8 1838. Dear brother I received your truly interesting letter of 5th January two days since and I am happy in improving an early opportunity to reply. I perused your letter of Nov 20th to Don C Smith published in the "Elders Journal" with much satisfaction. The account you gave of your ministry upon the "Island of the Sea" in that communication together with other particulars in your last letter to me enables me to form a pretty just estimate ...

Perhaps you would like to know what I have been about since I I left New Rowley &c. At least I will venture to give you a brief acc- ount of matters & things with me. On the 8th of Aug, in company with my wife I arived at Mr Ezra Carter's My father in law in the State of Maine, and you may rest assured we met a most welcome reception amid tears of joy, and was entertained with every mark of Kindness, respect, & friendship ...

The foregoing letter endorced the following order City of Jefferson June 4th 1834, Thomas Pitcher, Lut. Col. Commandant, of the 33rd Regiment, Sir, On the 2nd day of last May I showed an order to Col. Lucas to deliver the fifty two guns and one pistol, which you received from the Mormons on the 5th day of November last, and reported to him on the 3rd day of the succeeding December to W. W. Felps, E. Patridge, John ...

horses, as he was one of my life guards, and it belonged to Roger to see that the teams were attended to, but as the team was Kimball's, and he had taken the care of it all through, Ortons still threw the care on him. The Silver grey company numbering fourteen were attached to my mess making it twenty eight in numbers. June 14, 1834 ~ Saturday Saturday 14 Brother Joseph Hancock and another of the brotherin we're chased a considerable po[r]tion of the day ...

bare feet, he received a bite on his left foot, it was communicated to me, and I took accasion to reprove him, and exhorted the brotherin never to trifle with the promises of God, I told them it was presumption for any one to provoke a serpant to bite him, but if a man of God, was accidentaly bitten by a poisonous serpant he might have faith or his brotherin might have faith for him so that the Lord whould hear his prayer, and he might be healed, but when a man designedly ...

you an answer as soon as Saturday or Monday next. We can say for ourselves and in behalf of our brotherin that peace is what we desire, and what we dispose to cultivate with all men, and to effect peace we feel disposed to use all our influence as far as it whould be required at our hands, as free common citizens of the United States, and as fears have been expressed that we designed to commence hostilities against the inhabitants of Jackson County, we have pledged ourselves to them, and to the hospitable Citizens of

Church. After hearing the pleas, the President decided that it was the duty of W. W. Phelps to go to Kirtland to assist in printing and that his family remain in the region where they were, and that he have an honorable discharge from his station in Zion for a season. (as soon as he can accomplish his business) signed by the Pres- ident and Clerk. It was then proposed by W. W. Phelps that David Whitmer, the President of the Church in Zion, should go to Kirtland ...