| 485 were disappointed. In the evening they took passage on a canal boat, and arrived in Albany on the l9th, Elder Hyde having gone forward to New York from Rochester. Brother Fielding proceeded to New York, and on the 20th Elder Kimball accompanied Elder Richards to his father's house in Richmond, Massachusetts, thirty miles east, where they spent one day, and having received some assistance from his friends, bade them farewell for the last time, his father and mother having since died, also a sister whom he had left in Kirtland, and on the 21st returned to Albany, and arrived in New York on the 22d, where they found Brothers O. Hyde and Fielding; also Elders John Goodson, Isaac Russell, and John Snyder, priest (who had come from Canada to join the mission), anxiously waiting their arrival so that they might take passage on board the United States, which was to sail next day, but they arrived too late.
"In New York Elder Richards received some further means, quite providentially, and on the 23d the brethren engaged passage to Liverpool, on board the Garrick, which was to sail on the 1st of July.
"In the meantime the brethren received every possible assistance from Elder Elijah Fordham, for at that time he was the only member of the church residing in the city, and having no house of his own, he procured his father's storehouse for the use of the brethren, where they lodged on the floor, amid straw and blankets, one week, eating their cold morsel, and conversing with the people as they had opportunity; for no place could be procured to preach in, and there was no one to receive them into their houses.
"Sunday, the 25th, the brethren held a council at their lodgings (Mr. Fordham's store), and organized ready for taking their departure.
"On the 29th, the brethren sealed, superscribed, and forwarded one hundred and eighty of Elder Orson Hyde's 'Timely Warnings' to the ministers of the different denominations in the city, and went on board the Garrick, which hauled out into the river and cast anchor.
"July 1st the ship weighed anchor, and was towed to the Hook by a steamer, where she spread sail, and in four hours
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