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Fri. 7 .- At a council of the Aposties it was decided that the brethren on the west side of the Missourl river should settle together. A municipal High Council, consisting of Alpheus Cutler, Winslow Farr, Ezra Chase, Jedediah M. Grant, Albert P. Rockwood, Benjamin L. Clapp, Samuel Russell, Andrew Cahoon, Cornelius P. Lott, Daniel Russell, Elnathan El- dredge and Thomas Grover, was appointed to superintend the affairs of the Church there.
-A small company of Saints from Mississippi, under the direction of John Brown, arrived at Pueblo, on the Arkansas river, where it wintered, waiting till the following spring for the advance companies of the "Mormon" emigration.
Sun. 9 .- The first meeting was held at Cutler's Park, where the exiled Saints at that time intended to spend the winter. The municipal High Council was accepted by the people and the place named Cutler's Park, in honor of Alpheus Cutler. This place, which now became the temporary headquarters of the camps, is three miles from the spot where Winter Quarters afterward was built.
Thurs. 13 .- Three companies of the Mormon Battalion began to move west from Ft. Leavenworth, after having re- ceived their arms, camp equipage. etc. On the 14th the other two companies took up the line of march.
-About this time the mobbers in Hancock County. Ill., con- cluded to drive the few remaining "Mormon" families from Nauvoo.
Sun. 23 .- Col. James Allen, commander of the Mormon Bat- talion, died at Ft. Leavenworth. The command then devolved on Capt. Jefferson Hunt, as the ranking officer, but notwith- standing this, Lieut. A. J. Smith shortly after assumed the command.
September. Tues. 8 .- Col. Thos. L. Kane left the camps of the Saints for the East.
Thurs. 10 .- The few remaining Saints at Nauvoo, of whom only about one hundred and twenty-five were able to bear arms, were attacked by an armed moh. about eighteen hundred strong, who with five pieces of artillery bombarded the city for several days. The brethren organized for self-defense and stopped the mobbers about two miles from the city.
Fri. 11 .- The mobbers were prevented from entering Nau- voo by the gallantry of the "Spartan Band," who fired on the enemy with cannons made of steamboat shafts.
-A site for building winter quarters for the Saints was Selected on the west bank of the Missouri river. Teams began to return to Nauvoo after the poor.
-The Mormon Battalion reached the Arkansas river.
Sat. 12 .- The battle of Nauvoo took place. Wm. Anderson, his son Augustus and Isaac Norris were killed, and others of the defenders were wounded. The mob force, which again was driven back, also sustained considerable loss.
Wed. 16 .- The enemy was driven back from Nauvoo the fourth time. Through the negotiations of one hundred citi- zens of Quincy, a treaty was completed, by which the Saints should be allowed to move away in peace.
-Some of the families accompanying the Mormon Battalion left the main body on the Arkansas river, in care of Capt. Higgins, for Pueblo. About this time Alva Phelps, a mem- ber of the Battalion, died.
Thurs. 17 .- The mob entered Nauvoo, and, notwithstanding the treaty, immediately drove out the Saints, and treated some of the brethren in a most brutal manner.
Sun. 20 .- Norman Sharp, a member of the Mormon Battal- ion, accidentally shot himself in the arm and died a few days later, from the effect of the wound.
Tues. 22 .- A partial reorganization of the Nauvoo Legion took place at Cutler's Park.
Wed. 23 .- The Saints began to move to the new location for Winter Quarters.
Thurs. 24 .- A conference was held at Putuahara, Anaa, at which 852 members of the Church in the Society Islands mis- sion were represented.
Sun. 27 .- The first public meeting at Winter Quarters was held. By this time most of the Saints had removed from Cut- ler's Park to Winter Quarters.
October .- Apostle Orson Hyde succeeded Reuben Hedlock as president of the British Mission, and the Joint Stock Company was dissolved.
-Martin Harris and others, followers of the apostate James J. Strang, preached among the Saints in England, but could get no influence.
Fri. 2 .- The Mormon Battalion reached Red river.
Sat. 3 .- The Battalion was divided in two divisions, of which the first, containing the strongest and most able-bodied men, arrived at Santa Fe, N. M., on the 9th. and the second, containing the sick and the women, on the 12th.
-Apostles Orson Hyde and John Taylor arrived at Liver- pool, England, and immediately issued a circular to the British Saints, advising them to "patronize the Joint Stock Company no more for the present."
Wed. 7 .- The teams which were sent back to help the poor away from Nauvoo, arrived at the Mississippi river, opposite Nauvoo.
Fri. 9 .- The camp of the poor was organized and started for the West. Flocks of quails visited the camp and were easily
caught. This was a providential supply of food for the suf- fering exiies.
Tues. 13 .- Capt. P. St. George Cooke assumed command of the Mormon Battalion at Santa Fe, by order of General Kearney.
Wed. 14 .- Apostle Parley P. Fratt and Elders Franklin D. Richards, Samuel W. Richards and Moses Martin arrived at Liverpool, England, from the camps of the Saints in the wilderness.
Sat. 17 .- On this and the following day a general confer- ence was held in Manchester, England, under the presidency of Apostles Hyde, Pratt and Taylor. Dan Jones reported one thousand Saints in Wales, and a conference was organized in Ireland, with Paul Jones as president.
Sun. 18 .- The sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion, consisting of about ninety men, left Santa Fe for Pueblo, under command of Capt. James Brown.
Mon. 19 .- The Battalion left Santa Fe for California. On the journey it suffered much from excessive marches, fatigue and short rations.
Tues. 27 .- Milton Smith, a member of the Battalion, died on his way with the sick detachment to Pueblo.
November .- A memorial to the Queen of England "for the relief, by emigration, of a portion of her poor subjects," was circulated for signatures among the British Saints.
Tues. 3 .- James Hampton, a member of the Mormon Bat- talion, died.
Wed. 4 .- Milton Kelly, a member of the Battalion, died at Pueblo.
Tues. 10 .- A detachment of fifty-five sick men of the Bat- talion, under the command of Lieutenant W. W. Willis, was separated from the main body and started back to Pueblo. Two days later John Green died.
Tues. 17 .- Capt. Brown's sick detachment of the Battalion arrived at Pueblo.
Sat. 21 .- John D. Lee and Howard Egan arrived at Winter Quarters, as messengers from the camps of the Mormon Battalion beyond Santa Fe.
-Joseph Wm. Richards, a member of the Mormon Battal- ion, died at Pueblo.
Fri. 27 .- Capt. O. M. Allen with the remainder of the sick camp from Nauvoo, arrived at the east bank of the Missouri river.
Sat. 28 .- Elijah Freeman and Richard Carter, members of the Battalion (Lieut. Willis' detachment), died, and were buried by their comrades four miles south of Secora, on the Rio Grande.
-The main body of the Battalion reached the summit of the Rocky Mountains.
December .- Winter Quarters, afterwards known as Flor- ence, Nebraska, consisted at this time of 538 log houses and 83 sod houses, inhabited by 3.483 souls, of whom 334 were sick and 75 were widows. There were 814 wagons, 145 horses. 29 mules, 388 yoke of oxen and 463 cows. The place was divided in 22 Wards, each presided over by a Bishop. The Ward on the east side of the river contained 210 souls.
-The Saints on the banks of the Missouri river made great exertions to provide themselves with shelter and food for the winter. Notwithstanding this, there was much privation and suffering among them.
-The presidency of the Church in England published a balance sheet of the Joint Stock Company, showing that the Saints had been swindled and their means squandered by officers of the company.
Fri. 11 .- The Mormon Battalion had an extraordinary en- counter with wild buffaloes on the San Pedro river.
Fri. 18 .- The Battalion left Tucson. During the remainder of the month it suffered almost beyond human endurance from overmarching, and want of food and water.
Sun. 20 .- Capt. Willis' detachment of the Battalion joined the detachments of Captains Brown and Higgins at Pueblo.
Tues. 22 .- The Battalion arrived at the Pima village, and encamped the following day by a village of Maricopa Indians.
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January .- The committee who had been appointed to settle up the Joint Stock Company business in England were able to pay one shilling and three pence on the pound of capital stock paid in.
Fri. 8 .- The Mormon Battalion reached the mouth of the Gila river. Two days later (10th) it crossed the Colorado. Thurs. 14 .- A revelation was given through Pres. Brigham Young, at Winter Quarters, showing the will of the Lord concerning the camps of Israel (Doc, and Cov., Sec. 136); in accordance with which the Twelve Apostles proceeded to organize the camps by appointing captains of hundreds and fifties. The captains were directed to organize their respect- ive companies.
The Word and Will of the Lord, given through President Brigham Young, at the Winter Quarters of the Camp of Israel, Omaha Nation, West Bank of Missouri River, near Council Bluffs. January 14th, 1847.
The word and will of the Lord concerning the Camp of Israel in their journeyings to the West.
Let all the people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. and those who journey with them, be organized into com- pantes, with a covenant and promise to keep all the command- ments and statutes of the Lord our God.
Let the companies be organized with captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, and captains of tens, with a president and his two counselors at their head. under the direction of the Twelve Apostles;
And this shall be our covenant, that we will walk in all the ordinances of the Lord.
Let each company provide themselves with all the teams, wagons, provisions, clothing, and otber necessaries for the journey that they can.
When the companies are organized, let them go to with their might, to prepare for those who are to tarry.
Let each company with their captains and presidents decide how many can go. next spring; then choose out a sufficient number of able-bodied and expert men, to take teams, seeds, and farming utensils, to go as pioneers to prepare for putting in spring crops.
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Let each company bear an equal proportion, according to the dividend of their property, in taking the poor, the widows, the fatherless, and the families of those who have gone Into the army, that the cries of the widow and the fatherless come not up into the ears of the Lord against this people.
Let each company prepare houses, and fields for raising grain, for those who are to remain behind this season, and this Is the will of the Lord concerning his people.
Let every man use all his Influence and property to remove this people to the place where the Lord shall locate a Stake of Zlon; And if ye do this with a pure heart. In all faithfulness, ye shall be blessed; you shall be blessed in your flocks, and In your herds, and In your flelds, and in your houses, and In your familles.
Let my servants Ezra T. Benson and Erastus Snow organize a company;
And let my servants Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff organize
a company. Also, let my servants Amasa Lyman and George A. Smith organize a company;
And appoint presidents, and captains of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,
And let my servants that have been appointed go and teach this my will to the saints, that they may be ready to go to a land of peace.
Go thy way and do as I have told you, and fear not thine enemies; for they shall not have power to stop my work. Zlon shall be redeemed in mine own due time. * Doc. and Cov. Sec. 136.
Tues. 19 .- John Perkins, a member of the Mormon Battal- lon, died at Pueblo.
-Apostles Pariey P. Pratt and John Taylor and a small company of Saints sailed from Liverpool. England, bound for New Orleans, but were on account of storms obliged to return to Liverpool, after nine days of rough sailing.
Sat. 23 .- Orson Spencer arrived at Liverpool, England, to preside over the British Mission as successor to Apostie Orson Hyde. Elder Franklin D. Richards had had temporary charge of the mission.
Wed. 27 .- The Mormon Battalion arrived at San Luis Rey, a deserted Catholic mission, and from a neighboring biuff first saw the Pacific Ocean.
Fri. 29 .- The Battalion arrived at a point near San Diego, Cal.
February. Mon. 1 .- The Battalion was ordered back to San Luis Rey, where it rested a short time.
-Apostles Parley F. Pratt and John Taylor again sailed from Liverpool, bound for New Orleans, where they landed March 10th,
Mon. 15 .- John H. Tippetts and Thomas Woolsey arrived at Winter Quarters, as messengers from the Battalion boys at Pueblo, after extreme sufferings on the journey.
Tues. 23 .- Apostle Orson Hyde saiied from Liverpool, Eng- iand, returning to America. He arrived at New York April 6th, and at the camps of the Saints, on the Missouri river, May 12th.
Sun. 28 .- Arnold Stevens, a corporal in the Mormon Bat- talion, died at Pueblo.
March .- At this time Winter Quarters contained 41 blocks, 820 lots, 700 houses, 22 wards, etc.
Thurs. 4 .- Thomas Ward, formerly president of the British mission, died in England.
Mon. 15 .- Company B of the Mormon Battalion was ordered from San Luis Rey to garrison San Diego.
Fri. 19 .- Most of the Mormon Battalion, except company B, (which was stationed as a garrison at San Diego), left San Luis Rey for Puebio de los Angeles, where it arrived on the 23rd.
Sun. 28 .- After nearly three years missionary labors in the Society Islands mission, Elder Addison Pratt sailed from Pa- peete, Tahiti, per ship "Providence," on his return to Amer- ica, leaving Benjamin F. Grouard in charge of the mission.
Mon. 29 .- A number of the Pioneers at Winter Quarters reported themselves ready to start for the mountains.
-About that time David Smith, of the Mormon Battalion, died at San Luis Rey.
April. Mon. 5 .- Apostie Heber C. Kimball moved out four miles from Winter Quarters, with six teams, and formed a nucleus to which the company of Pioneers could gather.
Thurs. 8 .- Apostie Parley P. Pratt returned to Winter Quarters from his mission to England.
Sat. 10 .- M. S. Blanchard, of the Mormon Battalion, died at Pueblo.
Sun. 11 .- Company C of the Mormon Battalion was ordered to the Cajon Pass, about forty-five miles east of Los Angeles. Wed. 14 .- Pres. Brigham Young and his brethren of the Twelve left Winter Quarters for the Rocky Mountains. They joined the Pioneer camp near the Elkhorn river.
Thurs. . 16 .- The Pioneer company was organized. It con- sisted of 73 wagons, 143 men, 3 women and 2 children-148 souls.
Sat. 24 .- The Mormon Battalion was ordered to erect a fort on a hill near Los Angeles.
Tues. 27 .- Mrs. Hunter, wife of Captain Jesse D. Hunter, of the Battalion, died at San Diego, Cal.
May. Tues. 11 .- Aibert Dunham, of the Battalion, died at San Diego, from an uicer on the brain.
Thurs. 13 .- Gen. Stephen F. Kearney left Los Angeles for Ft. Leavenworth. accompanied by about fifteen brethren of the Battalion. The general and four of the men went by water and the rest by land to Monterey.
Mon. 24 .- The sick detachments of the Battalion which had wintered at Pueblo, took up the line of march for California. Mon. 31 .- Gen. Stephen F. Kearney's detachment of the Battalion ieft Monterey and traveled by way of the Sacra- mento Valley, over the Sierra Nevadas, via Ft. Hali, Soda Springs, and the Piatte River, where it met several com- panies of Saints, going west, and arrived at Ft. Leavenworth in August.
June. Tues. 1 .- The Pioneers arrived at Ft. Laramie. A company of Saints, numbering seventeen persons, who had left the State of Mississippi the previous year, joined the Pioneers at that piace. It was a part of the company who had wintered at Pueblo; the remainder of it came on with Capt. Brown's detachment of the Battalion.
Thurs. 3 .- The Pioneers crossed the North Fork of the
Platte river at Ft. Laramie, having traveled on the left bank of the Piatte, from the Elkhorn to that point.
Fri. 11 .- Amasa M. Lyman, who had been sent back from the Pioneer camp, and other Eiders, met the sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion on Poie Creek.
Mon. 14 .- The Pioneers recrossed the Platte river from Its south to north side, 124 miles west of Ft. Laramie,
-The first company of emigrating Saints was organized at Elkhorn river for journeying west, and on the 19th about five hundred and seventy-five wagons from Winter Quarters had crossed the "Horn."
Wed. 16 .- Capt. Brown's detachment of the Mormon Bat- talion reached Ft. Laramie, and continued the following day westward, intending, if possible, to overtake the Pioneers, who had passed tweive days before.
Sun. 20 .- Thomas Smith was arrested and imprisoned at Covington, Warwickshire, England, for having cast out evii spirits. After examination, he and Richard Curreli, the sub- ject of administration, were dismissed, there being no cause of action.
Sun. 27 .- The Pioneers crossed the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains. On the following day they met Capt. James Bridger who considered it imprudent to bring a large population into the Great Basin, until it could be ascertained that grain could be raised there. So sanguine was he that it could not be done, that he said he would give one thou- sand dollars for the first ear of corn produced there.
Tues. 29 .- Henry W. Bigler and others of the Mormon Bat- talion, stationed at San Diego, cleared the first yard for moulding brick in California.
Wed. 30 .- Samuel Brannan, on his way from California, met the Pioneers at Green river, with news from the Saints who went out in the ship "Brooklyn" the year previous.
July. Sun. 4 .- Thirteen men of Capt. Brown's detachment of the Mormon Battalion, overtook the Pioneers on Green river.
Wed. 7 .- The Pioneers arrived at Fort Bridger.
Tues. 13 .- The Pioneers were encamped at the head of Echo Canyon; Apostle Orson Pratt was appointed to take 23 wagons and 42 men and precede the main company of Pioneers into Great Salt Lake Valley.
Thurs. 15 .- Company B of the Mormon Battalion joined the main body at Los Angeles.
Fri. 16 .- The Battalion was honorably discharged at Los Angeles.
Tues. 20 .- Eighty-one of the members of the Battalion re- enlisted for six months at Los Angeles. Four days later they were ordered to San Diego, where they arrived on Aug. 2nd, and were stationed as a provost guard to protect the citizens from Indian raids, etc. Those who did not re-eniist, organized into companies for traveling, and a few days later took up the line of march towards the East.
Wed. 21 .- The advance company of the Pioneers camped in Emigration Canyon, went into the vailey, and a circuit of about tweive miles was made before they got back to camp at 9 p. m.
Thurs. 22 .- The advance company of Pioneers entered Great Salt Lake Valley and camped on Canyon Creek.
Fri. 23 .- The advance company moved about three miles and camped on what was subsequently known as the 8th Ward Square of Salt Lake City. Apostle Orson Pratt called the camp together, dedicated the land to the Lord, invoked his blessings on the seeds about to be planted, and on the labors of the Saints in the valley. The camp was organized for work. The first successful piowing was done by Wm. Carter. A company commenced the work of getting out water for irrigation. Pres. Brigham Young, who was sick, and those with him, encamped at the foot of the Little Mountain.
Sat. 24 .- Pres. Young entered Great Sait Lake Valley and joined the main body of Pioneers at 2 p. m. Not a member of the company had died on the journey.
Sun. 25 .- Religious services were held for the first time in Great Salt Lake Valley. Geo. A. Smith preached the first pub- lic discourse and the Sacrament was administered there for the first time.
Mon. 26 .- Pres. Young and others ascended what is now known as Ensign Peak, north of Salt Lake City, and named it. Tues. 27 .- Some Ute Indians visited the Pioneer camp, The Twelve and a few others started west from the Pioneer camp on an exploring expedition. Crossing the stream which forms the outlet of Utah lake, they named it the Jordan river, and then proceeded to Black Rock, eighteen miies further, where the company took a bath in the lake.
Wed. 28 .- The exploring party returned to camp, a council was heid and the Temple Block located.
Thurs. 29 .- The detachment of the Mormon Battalion, which had wintered at Pueblo, on the Arkansas river, under Capt. James Brown, arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley, accom- panied by the Saints from Mississippi. This increased the number in camp to about four hundred souls.
August. Mon. 2 .- The survey of a city was commenced in Great Salt Lake Valley.
Wed. 4 .- Twenty-seven of the re-enlisted Battalion boys were ordered to San Luis Rey, Cal., to protect the mission property.
Fri. 6 .- The Apostles in Great Salt Lake Valley renewed their covenants by baptism, and the rest of the company soon after followed their example.
Mon. 9 .- Catharine C. Steele, wife of John Steeie, of the Battalion, gave birth to a female child who was named Young Elizabeth Steele. She was the first white child born in the Valley.
Tues. 10 .- The building of the "Old Fort" was commenced by the Pioneers in Great Salt Lake Valley on what is now known as the Pioneer Square, Sixth Ward, Salt Lake City. Wed. 11 .- Milton H. Therlkill, three years old, was accident- ally drowned near the Pioneer camp. This was the first death among white people in Great Sait Lake Valley.
Wed. 18 .- Nearly half of the Pioneers left Great Salt Lake Valiey with ox teams, on their return to Winter Quar- ters for their families.
Fri. 20 .- The returning Battalion boys arrived on the Sacra-
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mento river. On the 24th they reached a settlement of white people, and received the first news of the Saints settling in Great Sait Valley.
Sat. 21 .- Aibert Carrington, John Brown and Wm. W. Rust . ascended to the summit of the Twin Peaks, the highest moun- taln near Great Salt Lake Valley.
Sun. 22 .- At a special conference held in Great Salt Lake Valley, the city, which had been commenced by the Pioneers, was named Great Salt Lake City; the river Jordan and the mountain streams on the east side of the Valley were also named.
Thurs. 26 .- The second company of returning Ploneers left Great Salt Lake Valley for Winter Quarters to forward the emigration, where they arrived Oct. 31st. On thelr trip they met several companies of Saints who followed in the track of the Ploneers. Between six and seven hundred wagons, with about two thousand souis, arrived in the Valley that fall. When the Pioneers left for Winter Quarters, the colonists In the Valley had laid off a fort, bullt 27 log houses, plowed and pianted 84 acres with corn, potatoes, beans, buckwheat, turnips, etc.
September .- The members of the Mormon Battalion who had returned to California from the Truckee river were em- ployed by Capt. John A. Stutter, digging mill-races and erecting mills, near the place where Sacramento City now stands.
Frl. 3 .- The returning Battalion boys, having crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains, reached the place where the unfor- tunate Hastings company had perished the previous winter. A number of human bodies were yet lying unburied on top of the ground. Henry P. Hoyt died.
A few days later the soldiers were met by Samuel Brannan, James Brown and others, on the Truckee river. Brannan brought word from Pres. Brigham Young for those who had no means of subsistence to remain in California and work during the winter, and come to the Valley In the spring. About half of the company then returned to California.
Wed. 8 .- Sergeant Lafayette N. Frost, of the re-enlisted Mormon Battalion company, died at San Diego.
Mon. 20 .- Harrlet P. Young, wife of Lorenzo D. Young, gave birth to a male child, which was subsequently named Lorenzo Dow. He died March 22, 1848. This was the first white male child born in Great Salt Lake Valley.
October. Sun. 3 .- The Salnts in Great Salt Lake Valley were organized into a Stake of Zion with John Smith as president and Charles C. Rich and John Young as counselors. Selections for a High Council were also made. Charles C. Rich was elected chief mliitary commander In the Valley. Sat. 16 .- Those of the discharged Battalion boys who did not return to California arrived in Great Salt Lake City.
Mon. 18 .- Thirty-two of the Battalion boys, who were anxious to meet their families at Winter Quarters, left Great Salt Lake City for that place, where they arrived Dec. 18th, after a hard journey.
November .- Capt. James Brown returned to Great Salt Lake Valley from a visit to California, bringing about $5,000 In gold.
Fri. 5 .- Neal Donald, one of the Battalion boys who had re- enlisted, died at San Diego.
December .- Apostle Parley P. Pratt and others visited the Utah lake, where they launched a boat.
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