History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
Source Note
Source Note
History draft; handwriting of , John L. Smith, Jonathan Grimshaw, Robert L. Campbell, , , and ; 101 numbered pages plus several inserted pages; CHL. This manuscript covers the period from 1 March 1843 to 31 December 1843.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
<Monday 19 June> <The Laborers held a meeting in the , to investigate the price & principles of labor.> & arrived at at Sunrise, tarried about two hours to shoe <get> the <a> horse <shod> & take breakfast; started again at 7 for where they arrived at 3 p m put up their horses to feed & rest; they took dinner & slept till 7, when they started again & rode ’till midnight, when the horses being tired & weary, they turned them into a field, & <they themselves> lay down to sleep about 2 hours , when they again resumed their journey, & rode 4 <one> miles north of Hendersonville, where they stopt to feed <their> horses—
<20> abou [3 lines blank]
<20> about 7½ a m again started on our <their> journey & arrived at Andover about 10 a m, they turned out their horses to graze in the woods for about half an hour, when they proceeded to Gennesseo where they arrived at 2½ p m tried to hire a pair of horses to continue the journey, but did not succeed. they left Gennesseo at 6 <pm> & travelled to Portland, where they arrived at 12, put up their horses & went to bed until 4 a. m.
<The following appears in the Nauvoo Neighbor, which serves to illustrate the benefit of Chartered rights in : Sir (see Neighbor <page> 31) Company
reported the names of various persons in the Islands of Great Britain & Ireland who donated various small sums <between May & Decr. 1842> as contributions for building the & paid over 975.04 in the fall & winter of 1842 which <the names of the donors & amounts> are recorded in the Law of the Lord.
<I insert the following as an exception to the gen universal rule,> Earl Spencer keeps all the poor in the parish of Wormleighton, England & <so> prevents a poor rate; he allows his laborers 9s. [9 shillings] a week when out of employment & they pay only 1s. a year as a nominal rent for the house in which they severally reside.>
<21> < & > left Portland at 4 a,m & travelled to within 9 miles of , they changed their course & went direct to Inlet <grove,> where they arrived at 12½ took dinner & fed their horses left Inlet at 2 <p.m.> & arrived at [Benjamin] Wasson’s at 4 pm where they learned that I & were <was> gone to in the Carriage; and altho their horses were tired down they started to <for> meet me <> whi but met me about half way <x>— I told them not to be alarmed, I have no fear, I shall not leave here, I have plenty of <shall find> friends, & they <Missourians> can not hurt me <I tell you [[in the]] name of Israel’s God.> <x> They returned with me to Wassons & were glad to find a resting place having rode 190 <212> miles, in 66 hours, & had very little rest on the way; the horses were tired & their backs very sore
<Thursday 22> Another meeting of the Laborers in the <near the > concerning wages.
<I had previously given out an appointment to preach this day at , but on account of the change in circumstances, I wrote to telling the ppl [people] there was a writ out for me, & therefore declined preaching, &> Joseph <I> kept himself <myself> quiet all day, telling my friends that if I started for home I might be <arrested <where I had no friends> &> kidnapped into . wh & thought it best to tarry whe <here> among friends <at Inlet> & see the result; many were desirous to hear me preach but <were disappointed.> not wishing to have any excitement <in the country> by the Priests I feel it wisdom to decline
<Lawyer of , having heard of the writ being out against me, rode 12 miles to inform me. I thanked him for his kindness, paid him 25.00 & told him introduced him to my friends & , shewing that I had received previous information—>
<23> arrived <at > from
at 8 a m <a company of the brethren gathered> (a bee) to remove the timbers from the to the .
Lawyer [p. 42]
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Footnotes
Footnotes
- [205]
See 19 June 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, p. 1579.
- [206]
TEXT: Bullock first wrote “feed horses”, then struck “horses” but attempted to wipe erase the strike bar; he then inserted “their” before “horses”, making the final read “feed their horses”.
- [207]
See 20 June 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, pp. 1579–1581.
- [208]
TEXT: Possibly “their <our>”.
- [209]
See 21 June 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, p. 1581.
- [210]
TEXT: This “x” symbol corresponds to a second “x” symbol two lines below, indicating that the text following the second symbol through the end of the paragraph should be inserted here.
- [211]
TEXT: Word-signs from Pitman shorthand meaning “in” and “the”.
- [212]
TEXT: This “x” symbol corresponds to another “x” symbol two lines above, indicating that the following text should be inserted after the first symbol.
- [213]
See 22 June 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, p. 1581.
- [214]
See 23 June 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, pp. 1581–1584.
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