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Savannah Ga. Ship Garnet
Attend Church. Afternoon in bed & trying to sleep.
Monday Octr 31.1859 Clear & cool. Am better today tho weak. At work all day at ship duty. Repaired Main T. Gal. sail to bent it. Taken 195 bales today. Saml Learned. one of our boys leaves ship tomorrow.
Tuesday Nov. 2 Nothing of interest on board. At work as usual. Weather warm
Thursday Nov. 3. Thanksgiving day in Savannah. Taking no frt. Cleaned up decks early and having resting time in PM. Set up Main stay
Friday Novr 4 1859 Fine warm weather. Have on board 1075 bales. Set up Topmast & T.Gal rigging.
Saturday Nov 5. Still mild pleasant weather At work on Rigging & cargo. It is Henrietta's birthday anniversary. Recd letter from her It does me good to read her warm hearted words Wrote her in eveg
Sabbath Nov 6. Fine but cloudy. At Ch. at Pres. Ch. Recd letter from Bro Darniel. Wrote Sister, Laura & Phebe.
Monday Nov 7 Fine weather. Receiving cotton quite fast. Wrote IHB. Jr. Recd FB$200 & IT MS.150.
Savannah Ga Ship "Garnet."
less irksome & lonely. I am glad I have our dear one & love above all others. & she is more than worthy. In eveg on board ship very tired.
Thursday Nov 17.1859 Beautiful warm weather. It seems almost strange that here the days are so fine while out at sea in this latitude we may expect gales, storms. But then God orders every thing in wisdom & the more I see of His works on land & see the more I reverence & wonder, for every thing in nature works so harmoniously & of many things man may even learn the reason why they are thus & so. As I have passed the length & breadth of the North & South Atlantic I could almost tell day by day what we might expect - whether storms or wind, clouds or sunshine.
Friday Nov 18.1859 Fine warm weather. Are taking in last of our cargo. In eveg up town and called at Mr. Sturtevant.
Saturday Nov 19. Still fine & warm. Tonight finished loading, 3277 Bales Total. Shall not go into stream before Tuesday morning, on a/c, of ship lying outside of us. Have been cleaning decks lashing spars boats, casks, &c. Hooking on Topsail sheets, bending Jibbs &c. Every things is new & so every thing needs refitting. I like ship work. and am perhaps learning to feel absence less than I used to. Every thing goes on so pleasantly here it may make me less homesick than I have been on previous voyages. Up town in eveg. Recd of Capt Jno Bradford 2.00. previously 16.00 Paid books 50¢. Sundries coffee &c 56¢.
Savannah Ga Ship Garnet
Sunday Nov 20, 1859 Fine beautiful day. Washed decks in morning. In forenoon wrote R.W. B. Henrietta H Johnson & home. In PM at Baptist Ctr. Subject. Christ Our light of the world. Took tea & spent eveg at Mr. Sturtevants
Monday Nov. 21 Damp but warm weather. Today I feel lonely for every time I leave the land it seems as tho I were sundering ties which might never be reunited. My last word of affectionate goodbye is said to my dear ones at the North. & tomorrow we shall be on the ?? of waters again. But in thus again leaving my native land my trust is in Him who holdeth the waters in His hands & whom the wind & sea obey Truly blessed trust not in the strength or wisdom of man but in the Almighty. Since I have been here I have not been wholly alone for words of love & affection have often
