[George Laub Diary] April 8, 1847. . . Lee. . . promised to send me and my wife with the first company after the prairies. I still trusted in his promise. . . . the team that hauled my goods was too weak and could not perform their journey to any satisfaction so the 9th I took two yoke of oxen of J. D. Lee . . . when he came home and found that I had done as I had, he was very angry and used harsh language, this gave me great feelings and we had a very hot contention and I could see no occasion on his side for doing so . . . . then I asked him if he was going to send me in the first company. He told me not and said there was no use of that course then I told him I would go to Missouri to work . . . he granted that I should go . . . I told him I could work at my trade and make me and my wife a good outfit. . . . He lost my cow for me, promised to replace one for me again but has not yet done it. . . I know not if he will or not hereafter. Again I did about one hundred and fifty dollars worth of work for him in Nauvoo doing joiner work on a house he never paid me more than about thirty-five. Now if this is a part of the law of adoption, I do not understand it in all points as I told him one day I told him I never could find any law that required more than the tenth of all a man possessed and if there was . . . .
[source: George Laub Diary diary excerpts, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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