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Letter from Don Carlos Smith, 6 July 1838
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Nine Miles from Terre
Haute, Ind.
Situated high on east bank of Wabash River. French settlement, 1720–1763; name is French for “high land.” Founded as Fort Harrison, 1811. Laid out and incorporated, 1816. Vigo Co. seat. Population in 1830 about 600; in 1837 about 1,100; and in 1840 about ...
More InfoBro. Joseph
I sit down to inform you of our situation at the present time.
I started from Norton, Ohio, the 7th of May, in company
with Father, Wm. [Smith], Jenkins salsbury [Wilkins Jenkins Salisbury], Wm. McClerry [McCleary] & Lewis Rob[b]ins, and families, also sister singly [Margaret Leasure Singley] is one of
our number, we started with 15 horses seven wagons, & two
cows, we have left two horses by the way sick one with a swelling
in <on> his shoul der, a 3rd horse (as it were
our dependance) was taken lame, last evening and is not able to travel,
and we have stop[p]ed to docter him We were disappointed on every hand
before we started, in getting money, we got no assistance whatever
only as we have taken in sister singly and she has assisted us
as far as her means extends, we had when we started, $75 dollars in
money, we sold the 2 cows for $13.50 per cow we have sold of your
goods to the amt of $45.74 and now we have only $25 dollars to
carry 28 souls & 13 horses, 500 miles, we have lived very close and
camped out knight, notwithst anding the rain & cold, & my
babe only 2 we eks old
when we started, Agness [Agnes Coolbrith Smith] is very feeble Father & Mother are not well
but very much fatigued, Mother has
a severe cold, and it is nothing in fact but the prayer of faith and
the power of God, that will sustain them and bring them through,
our carriage is good and I think we shall be braught through, I leave
it with you and Hyram [Hyrum Smith] to
devise some way to assist us to some more
expence money, we have had unaccountable road <bad> roads, had our horses
down in the mud, and broke of[f] one wagon tongue [p. 50]
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Don Carlos Smith, letter, near Terre Haute, IN, to JS, Far West, MO, 6 July 1838; handwriting of George W. Robinson; in JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838, pp. 50–51; CHL.
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