[William Clayton Journal] Went to the general meeting played with the band and then kept minutes. They got 3 companies of 43 each and half of the fourth company. All my teamsters have enlisted. I am now destitute of help. Edward Martin is advised to go and leave his family in my charge. I have still four yoke of oxen missing and I dont know them. Last night James was seized with a fit and is quite unwell today mostly insensible. Vilate Ruth is quite sick and on the whole my situation is rather gloomy. The meeting adjourned at 5 till tomorrow at 8, after which the company danced till dark . . .
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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