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| | Orson Pratt Journals |
 | | Arrived in Spafford, Onondago County, New York, at which place there was a branch of the Church; here we tarried six days; held five meetings, one of which was a conference; eleven elders present; baptized eight, among whom were Allen Holcomb, whom we ordained an elder, Libbeus T. Coon and Mahew Hilman. |
 | | We went to a conference which was held in Spafford, New York, on the tenth of November, where Brother Lyman (Johnson) baptized eight: he then, in company with Brother Hazen Aldrich, started for Ohio; and I, in company with Brother William Snow, started for Bath and Charleston, and baptized twelve by the way. |
 | | We then left New Portage and traveled a few miles west and encamped, where we were organized into small companies consisting of about thirteen each, over whom captains were appointed for the purpose of taking charge of them and purchasing provisions and seeing that all things were conducted with prudence, order and propriety. |
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