William Clayton's Journal: A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of Mormon Pioneers from Nauveo Illinois to the Valley of the Grt... (The Far Western Frontier)

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Clayton, William

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Ayer Co. Pub

William Clayton's Journal: A Daily Record Of The Journey Of The Original Company Of Mormon Pioneers From Nauvoo, Illinois To The Valley Of The Great Salt Lake (1921)

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Kessinger Publishing

One of 300 copies in orange and blue printed pictorial yellow wraps. 24pp. plus Some Notes about the author and critical review of the text, not in original edition. He was in charge of keeping track of the mileage on the original 1847 trip which he was able to do with a primitive odometer using hand carved wooden gears. Careful packing and free tracking

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Social Sciences

Ye Galleon Pr

The Latter-Day Saints' Emigrants' Guide: Being a Table of Distances from Council Bluffs to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake

Patrice Pr

William Clayton is best remembered today for his hymns, especially “Come, Come Ye Saints.” But as one of the earliest Latter-day Saint scribes, he made intellectual as well as artistic contributions to his church, and his records have been silently incorporated into official Mormon scripture and history. Of equal significance are his personal impressions of day-to-day activities, which describe a social and religious world largely unfamiliar to modern readers.In ministering to the sick, for instance, Clayton anointed with perfumed oil and rum. He performed baptisms to heal the sick. Church services, held irregularly, were referred to as “going to meeting” and seemed to be elective. He testifies of people speaking in tongues and of others “almost speaking in tongues.” When introduced to plural marriage, he was reluctant but eventually became one of its most enthusiastic proponents, marrying ten women and fathering forty-two children.Since polygamy was initially secret, Clayton spent much of his time putting out the fires of innuendo and discontent. He caught his first plural wife rendezvousing with her former fiancé; later, when she became pregnant, her mother–his unaware mother-in-law–was so overwrought that she attempted suicide. Joseph Smith reassured him: “Just keep her at home and brook it and if they raise trouble about it and bring you before me I will give you an awful scourging and probably cut you off from the church and then I will set you ahead as good as ever.” Clayton was also the object of Emma Smith’s attentions, allegedly part of a jealous wife’s plan to make a cuckold of her errant husband.

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