James Leigh Newton (1823 - 1916) Profile

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James L. Newton journal

James L. Newton journal, April 1853.

Tuesday June 21 [1853.] We left Keokuk this morning about 10 a.m. with our waggons and team in good health and spirits. fine day.



Friday July 15th We arrived at Keansvile [Kanesville] in good health and Spirits



Monday July 18th[.] We left Keansvile for the farry [ferry] in good health and spirits



Thursday 20th[.] We crosst the river Mo. [Missouri River.] Eliza, and Mary Issabella, varry bad in health.



Sunday 17th August <s>trees ga</s> Pawnee indains came to our camp and deman[d]ed some parvision [provisions], we give them some after which they was not content, we had to take up our arms after which, we give them some more parvision, they became some what quite [quiet]. they seeing our guns and our determition [determination] they some quit.



Friday 19th[.] Bro Richard Jones gone &amp; bathed himself in the river Platt[e] and drowned himself near the Wolf Creek intured [interred] on the 20th



Thursday September 15th[.] We past Devils Gate



Sunday October 16th 1853[.] We arived in the Valley of Great Salt Lake in good health excepting Mary Issabella



[Edited version of this journal also published in Elvera Campbell Green, comp. and ed., Tartan, Sage and History: The Story of Robert William Rowe Campbell and Sarah Newton [1981], 67,69.]

Transcript for James L. Newton journal, 1853 April-1869 November; 1886

James L. Newton journal.

Newton, James Leigh, [Journal], in Elvera Campbell Green, comp. and ed., Tartan, Sage and History: The Story of Robert William Rowe Campbell and Sarah Newton [1981]

Newton, James Leigh, [Journal], in Elvera Campbell Green, comp. and ed., Tartan, Sage and History: The Story of Robert William Rowe Campbell and Sarah Newton [1981], Page 67, 69.

Newton, James Leigh, [Journal], in Elvera Campbell Green, comp. and ed., Tartan, Sage and History: The Story of Robert William Rowe Campbell and Sarah Newton [1981].

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Tartan, Elvera Campbell Green, Sage and History: The Story of William Rowe Campbell [1981]

Tartan, Elvera Campbell Green, Sage and History: The Story of William Rowe Campbell [1981], Page 67, 69.

Tartan, Elvera Campbell Green, Sage and History: The Story of William Rowe Campbell [1981].

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