History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]

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History draft; handwriting of
Thomas Bullock
23 Dec. 1816–10 Feb. 1885. Farmer, excise officer, secretary, clerk. Born in Leek, Staffordshire, England. Son of Thomas Bullock and Mary Hall. Married Henrietta Rushton, 25 June 1838. Moved to Ardee, Co. Louth, Ireland, Nov. 1839; to Isle of Anglesey, Aug...
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19 July 1834–28 May 1859. Clerk, reporter. Born in London. Son of Samuel Harris Hawkins and Charlotte Savage. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John Banks, 23 Oct. 1848. Immigrated to U.S. with his family; arrived in New Orleans...
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1 Mar. 1807–2 Sept. 1898. Farmer, miller. Born at Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Son of Aphek Woodruff and Beulah Thompson. Moved to Richland, Oswego Co., New York, 1832. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Zera Pulsipher,...
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; 101 numbered pages plus several inserted pages; CHL. This manuscript covers the period from 1 March 1843 to 31 December 1843.
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<Frida[y] April 14> rode out to my & to the Prairie, with some of the Emigants: & sold 20 acres of land & returned. & when I was again riding out in the evening, broke the Carriage on the side hill, when we all returned home on foot.

The Natchez Free Trader I give the following speech entire, as copied from the National Intelligencer, as a specimen of the way the seed of Joseph are being “wasted before the Gentiles.” Speech of Col Cobb (T&S. 205 <copy>) your side—

15 April 1843 • Saturday

<15> Attended Court Martial which was held at my house

Appointed of one of my Aides de camp as Lieutn Genl of the .

In the evening rode out in my carriage with .

<A is (held at Vinalhaven, Maine <Fox Islands, Maine,> when 4 consisting of 128 members, 4 , 5 , 6 & 3 are represented quite a number have been recently .>

16 April 1843 • Sunday

<Sunday 16> Meeting at the at 10 a m I read s letter to the of the Times & Seasons concerning the death of <who died in 20 Decr. 1842—> & remarked that I read it, because it was so appropriate to all who had died in the faith.

Almost all (copy it (pages 22 & 23)

I received a letter from the Post Office, of which the following is a copy

(see Journal 82) [blank]

I insert this letter in the history to shew <a specimen of> the many despisable falsehoods; resorted to by the enemies of truth to disturb me & my friends.

17 April 1843 • Monday

<17> Rain last night, green grass begins to appear.

Walked out in the with , visited , & gave him some instructions about the letter purporting to come from the Attorney General [Hugh] Legare;— also called on in relation to the house he lived in, above the old buryng ground— returned home & conversed with <Elder> . Received from 50 Gold Sovereigns from for the & ; also received £87 from the English Brethren, for Land— at 5½ p.m. called at the for a short time, when I returned home & listened to the reading of a synopsis of my sermon of last Sabbath—

Advices from Guadaloupe, state, that up to the 25 March, 4500 bodies had been dug out of the ruins of Pointe-a-Pitne & 2,200 of the wounded <by the late, Earthquake> were in the hospital at Basseterre; & that five other shocks have been subsequently felt.

Elder E[dward] M. Webb he writes, that he has been laboring with success in several counties in , & when he came to comstock in Kalamazoo Co., Dr. was there lecturing, <in Kalamazoo, the Shire town; who> & when he <who> was told that there was a Mormon Elder in the Town, <neighborhood,> he <> said, “that is one of Jo. Smith’s 500 destroying angels, who is come to kill me ”& he left in such haste, that he forgot to pay his tavern bill, & as also the poor Presbyterians for lighting & warming the house for him— Elder Webb commenced preaching there, 24, & organized a at <in> Kalamazoo there

100 barrels or 10,000 lbs of Gunpowder, are deposited in 15 separate chambers, & simultaneously fired, with complete success in the Abbotts Cliff, Dover, England. [p. 21]

14 April 1843 • Friday

Friday April 14 rode out to my & to the Prairie, with some of the Emigants: sold 20 acres of land & returned. & when I was again riding out in the evening, broke the Carriage on the side hill, when we all returned home on foot.

I give the following speech entire, as copied from the National Intelligencer, as a specimen of the way the seed of Joseph are being “wasted before the Gentiles.” Speech of Col Cobb (T&S. 205 copy) your side—

15 April 1843 • Saturday

15 Attended Court Martial which was held at my house

In the evening rode out in my carriage with .

A is (held at Vinalhaven, Fox Islands, Maine, when 4 consisting of 128 members, 4 , 5 , 6 & 3 are represented quite a number have been recently .

16 April 1843 • Sunday

Sunday 16 Meeting at the at 10 a m I read s letter to the of the Times & Seasons concerning the death of who died in 20 Decr. 1842— & remarked that I read it, because it was so appropriate to all who had died in the faith.

Almost all (copy it (pages 22 & 23)

I received a letter from the Post Office, of which the following is a copy

(see Journal 82) [blank]

I insert this letter in the history to shew a specimen of the many despisable falsehoods; resorted to by the enemies of truth to disturb me & my friends.

17 April 1843 • Monday

17 Rain last night, green grass begins to appear.

Walked out in the with , visited , & gave him some instructions about the letter purporting to come from the Attorney General [Hugh] Legare;— also called on in relation to the house he lived in, above the old buryng ground— returned home & conversed with Elder . Received from 50 Gold Sovereigns for the & ; also received £87 from the English Brethren, for Land— at 5½ p.m. called at the for a short time, when I returned home & listened to the reading of a synopsis of my sermon of last Sabbath—

Advices from Guadaloupe, state, that up to the 25 March, 4500 bodies had been dug out of the ruins of Pointe-a-Pitne & 2,200 of the wounded by the late, Earthquake were in the hospital at Basseterre; & that five other shocks have been subsequently felt.

Elder Edward M. Webb writes, that he has been laboring with success in several counties in , when he came to comstock in Kalamazoo Co., Dr. was lecturing, in Kalamazoo, the Shire town; who was told that there was a Mormon Elder in the , neighborhood, said, “that is one of Jo. Smith’s 500 destroying angels, who is come to kill me ”& he left in such haste, that he forgot to pay his tavern bill, as also the poor Presbyterians for lighting & warming the house for him— Elder Webb commenced preaching there, 24, & organized a

100 barrels or 10,000 lbs of Gunpowder, are deposited in 15 separate chambers, & simultaneously fired, with complete success in the Abbotts Cliff, Dover, England. [p. 21]

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Editorial Title
History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
ID #
8470
Total Pages
200
Handwriting on This Page
- Thomas Bullock
Footnotes
1. 90
  See 14 Apr. 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, pp. 1532–1533.
2. 91
  See 15 Apr. 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, p. 1533.
3. 92
  See 16 Apr. 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, pp. 1533–1535.
4. 93
  TEXT: Bullock inserted two leaves with a copy of JS’s discourse (numbering the pages “22” and “23”), indicating that the text on pages 22 and 23 should be inserted here.
5. 94
  TEXT: It is unclear what the asterisk is meant to represent.
6. 95
  See 17 Apr. 1843 entry in JS History, vol. D-1, p. 1536.

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