Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
continue my journey, and on the 20th of
July I parted from my father, step-
mother and sister, and took stage for
Hartford with my wife.
On my arrival at Hartford, not having
money to pay the fare of both of us, I
paid my wife's fare to Rowley, Massa-
chusetts, where there was a branch of
the Church, presided over by Brother
Nathaniel Holmes, father of Jonathan
and Milton Holmes, and I journeyed on
foot.
The first day I walked fifty-two miles,
the second day forty-eight, and the third
day thirty-six miles, and arrived at Row-
ley at two o'clock, making one hundred
and thirty-six miles in a little over two
and a half days.
I spent eight days at New Rowley,
holding meetings and visiting the Saints,
including the Holmes family, and left
