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English
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John Alexander Jost's 1855 Diary of His Flight from Halifax to Zion
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The Third Eye
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1996
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146-78
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"Covers 12 May 1855 to 15 December 1856. Started on ship from Novia Scotia. List of persons in company. Author hid from two police officers who searched vessel before it embarked. His unjust debt explained. Ocean voyage to Boston. To St. Louis. Meetings. Missionaries from Valley brought news of death of daughter, Eliza Ann. Desperate financial problems. ("Had no work'earned no money'have borrowed 4 Dollars. Got nothing to pay it with. Almost in a fix. What shall I do") Got help to get on to Atchison by boat. Jobs in Atchison, 1855-56. Mob excitement near Atchison; posse of sixty men went out to quell mob. Meetings at Mormon Grove. Gap: January to December 1856. Note at end: "Arrived in S.L. City 15th December 1856." Some pages of financial accounts." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies]