The fourth ward were prevented meeting at the Lodge room from the rain²

Meeting opend by prayer and singing

prayer by Sister Joshua [Sarah] Smith

In compliance with Councillor Whitneys [Elizabeth Ann Whitney’s] request proceeded to business

Prest Emma Smith absent also he[r]— Counsellors

Mrs [Elvira Cowles] Holmes the Treasurer not presant

Sister Granger reported

The Committee then proceeded to report as follows

Sister [Lydia] Granger & Sister [Elizabeth] Jones of the first ward found that many were sick and suffer[in]g said there were some imposters Spoke of Hannah Jones who is late from England a widow and 〈had〉 applied to this society for help had found her to be a corrupt 〈person〉 as they had enquird into her Character and knew it to be corrupt

Sister Meecum Sister Joshua Smith of th[e] 4^th ward report that about 20 families are very sick and others getting sick Br Law and the Bishops have supplied some so that they are mostly supplied with meal³ & flowr at present

She also represented a family of Holts as of objects of charity

Sister Joshua Smith mentiond the case of N Nicholson [p. [113]]

P[hebe] M Wheeler represented Siste[r] Reed as an object of charity to the society

Sister Reed desird to get work of the Society

Siste[r] Jones rose said she had an orphan boy on her hands James Bayley who had been with her 3 weeks and now inclining to drepsey [dropsy] could eat nothing but crackers and was in need of medicine which she could not get without money solicited help for him

Sister Packerd [Sophia Packard] spoke of Mrs [Clarissa] Merrifield as poor & needy Spoke of annother family and destitute and 〈had had〉 no thing but potatoes and roasted corn in 4 days has money due him but cant get it Sister Packard said she desird to do her duty and magnify her calling faithfully

Sister Fordham representd a family near her in extreme want Also a Br Willcox with a large family in extreme want 〈near to〉 and Jeremiah Curtiss, North East from the Temple

Sister Granger spoke of a family of Wights the Man very sick nothing to eat

Sister Jones suggested the propriety of of taking measures to detect imposters said that Siste[r] Emma had a counciled all to report to whom donations were given

Said she had had a family dependant on her hands who were poor and needy

[p. [114]]

[p. [115]]

Sister [Philinda] Stanley said the flax which she had given to the Society is spun and ready for weaving

Sister Lyons said the cotton was ready for the loom

Sister Joshua Smith then rose and said proposd that we as a society get to gather materials for for the Saints for bedding that many may not suffer as they did last wintr

Sister Lyons thought so too said in Lima the Sisters were now at work making quilts for this Society

Sister Green said she would give Siste[r] Reed a bed quilt also her daughter a Mantaumaker⁵ should cut and help make her dress

Sister Prusia [Persis] Johnson will give a cotton and woollen skirt to Siste[r] Reed

Sister Simpson 5 lb flowr & soap for Br Hooms

a hymn was then sung

Prayer by Sister Packerd

Meeting Ajournd