[Brigham Young] --23-- We attended meeting in the evening and ordained thirty-two elders. Lyman Wight (for whom we had waited in Boston about a week) arrived. (1)
-- Jul 24, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 24th I Called at the Prophets office but no one at home. I then took steem Boat for Albany and found on board Elders O. Hyde and O Pratt and sister Sayers. I was truly pleased to meet with these friends. We rode to Albany and Troy. 166 mile. We there took rail cars for Buffaloo. At Schenactady we Joined Elders B Young H. C. Kimball and L. Wight making six of our quorum to accompany each other home. We rode all night. (2)
[Brigham Young] --24-- I left Boston for Nauvoo in company with Brothers Kimball and Wight, and on our arrival at Albany were joined by Brothers Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt and W. [Wilford] Woodruff, who had just arrived from New York. We continued to journey night and day by railroad, stage and steamboat via Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and Galena, and arrived in Nauvoo on the 6th day of August, where we were received with joy by our families and friends. (1)
Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Lyman Wight, Orson Pratt, and Wilford Woodruff leave Boston for Nauvoo [per Brigham Young]. (3)
George Miller: Returned by 24 July 1844. (4)
-- Jul 25, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 25th We continued our Journey all day in the cars. Arived at Buffalo in the evening being 365 miles from Troy in 24 hours. Expenses of travelling and sundry articles from Westfield to Detroit $32.20. (2)
Erastus Snow: Returned to Nauvoo from Vermont 25 July 1844. (4)
Illinois Governor Thomas Ford writes to the people of Hancock county: "Try your 'Mormon' neighbors again, and if you cannot dwell together in amity, you may at least refrain from injuring each other. . . . Besides, if you are the aggressors, I am determined that all the power of the state shall be used to prevent your success. I can never agree that a set of infatuated and infuriated men shall barbarously attack a peaceful people who have submitted to all the demands of the law, and when they had full power to do so, refrained from inflicting vengeance upon their enemies. You may count on my most determined opposition-upon the opposition of the law, and upon that of every peaceful, law-abiding citizen of the country. . . . I have been informed that the 'Mormons' about Lima and Macedonia have been warned to leave the settlements. They have a right to remain and enjoy their property. As long as they are good citizens they shall not be molested, and the sooner those misguided pe
rsons withdraw their warning and retrace their steps, the better it will be for them." Since it is an election year, feeling is that Ford is only trying to win Mormon votes for the Democratic party. (5)
-- Jul 25, 1844 (Thursday)
Erastus Snow and many other Elders arrived at Nauvoo. All seemed weighed down with gloom. (6)
-- Jul 26, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 26th Took steem Boat in the morning and in 24 hours arived at Cleavland. O Hyde left at fairport to visit his family in Kirtland. (2)
-- Jul 27, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 27th We arived at Detroit in the evening on board the Buffalo. Spent the night at the rail road Hotel. (2)
George Albert Smith: Returned 27 July 1844. Member of Nauvoo Legion. (4)
-- Jul 28, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 28th Sunday We took the propeller Hereles for Chicago at 10 oclok fare in Cabin $7. I spent a part of the day in writing. We had good state rooms and was Comfortable. We spoke of our families free-quently and the death of Joseph and Hiram. We felt anxious to get home.
I conversed with the quorum of the Twelve. Elder B. Young expressed his feelings to me upon a variety of subjects. Among others wished me to keep an account of things as he should look to me for his Journal some day. Brothers Kimbal and Pratt were quite sociable. As to Elder Lyman Wight we were always on good terms. We had an interesting time together. We talked over old times and looked forward to new ones. He informed me that Joseph told him while they were in Joal that he should not live to see forty years but told him not to reveal it untill he was dead. Br Wight as well as the rest of us feels his death deeply. (2)
Footnotes:
1 - Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"
4 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
5 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
6 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
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