John Davidson Burt (1827 - 1906) Profile

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Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, December 29, 1888, Vol. 2, Page 105, Line 242.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, March 30, 1885, Vol. 2, Page 81, Line 3189.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, December 29, 1888, Vol. 1, Page 97, Line 242.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, March 30, 1885, Vol. 1, Page 74, Line 3189.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959.

Alfred Cordon Emigrating Company journal

Alfred Cordon Emigrating Company journal, June 1851.

Transcript for Alfred Cordon Emigrating Company journal, 1851 June-September

Alfred Cordon Emigrating Company journal.

David K. Stoddard autobiographical sketch, undated

David K. Stoddard autobiographical sketch, undated.

We lived here [St. Louis] untill the spring of 1851, and then we organized a company of ten to cross the plains to Salt Lake City



John Easton was appointed captain of the ten. and the names of the members of the company are as follows. John Easton and family, James Easton and family, Robert Easton and family, Alexander Easton and family, Mrs. Easton, their mother, and two unmarried sons George and Matthew Easton, James Williamson and family, Sandy Kear [Kerr] and family, Sandy [David] Mustgared [Mustard] and daughter, John and Andrew Burt, Joseph Horn, James, Robert and David Bullock, James Berner, John Stoddard, my father, my mother, John Stoddard, my brother and I David Stoddard.



We left St. Louis in April and were six weeks on the road to Winter Quarters. We were compelled to stop here a long time, it seemed, because the rivers had overthrown their banks and it seemed impos[s]ible to take the old road up the Platte River or that of the old Mexican Trail. So we were compelled to send out scouts to locate a route which would be posible to use in safety.



After a delay of several weeks we were organised into a company of with a train of 50 wagons so as to be strong enough to insure our safety. This company was captioned [captained] by Captain [Alfred] Cardon [Cordon]. Or known as Captain Cardon's Company.



After a week[']s travel we were discouraged as so much time was wasted. Captain [John] Easton called us all into council and laid before us the condition of affairs, ask[ed] if we were willing to travel alone as a company of ten and leave the others. We all agreed to do this as near as I can remember. About the fifth day of our trek, we saw a great cloud of dust in the east, we judged about one mile away. Captain Easton called a halt, we thought it was a band of Indians and we would surely be destroyed. To our surprise we found it to be a large herd of buffalo which we estimated to be around five thousand. The herd we judged to be one mile long and one fo[u]rth of a mile wide. We had all we could do to save our wagons from being turned up side down. Another day we came in sight of a large Indian camp, we passed by in peace and camped about three miles from them. We had just made fires and were preparing our suppers, when suddenly the camp was surrounded by about two hundred indians. We gave them all the camp could spare in eatables and soon they went away whooping in their Indian fashion. I could tell volumns [volumes] of incidents which happened during this trek but time will not permit. But will say that after a great many days of travel and hardship we reached Salt Lake City on Friday October 5th 1851, with Captain Cardon's Company.



[Variant version of text also in Our Pioneer Heritage, 20 vols. (1958-77), 13:391]

Transcript for David K. Stoddard autobiographical sketch, undated

Deseret Evening News

Brigham City: Patriarch John D. Burt

"Brigham City: Patriarch John D. Burt", Deseret Evening News, May 7, 1906, Page 3.

Deseret Evening News.

DUP Pioneer History Collection

John Davidson Burt, autobiographical sketch

"John Davidson Burt, autobiographical sketch", DUP Pioneer History Collection, Page 3.

I continued to labor in Gravoris until the spring of 1851 when I purchased an ox team, 2 cows and a wagon, with sufficient provisions to carry us through to Salt Lake Valley, and with my wife [Elizabeth Patterson] and first born son [Andrew Patterson], father [Andrew], mother [Isabella Hill] and brother [John Davidson], left St. Louis for Council Bluffs. After arriving in Kanesville, my brother engaged to drive team across the plains for James Munroe who, subsequently was shot by Howard Egan before reaching Salt Lake City.


I arrived in the Valley on the 15th day of September 1851, my brother arriving some 2 or 3 weeks later.

Transcript for "John Davidson Burt, autobiographical sketch", DUP Pioneer History Collection, Page 3.

Daughters of Utah Pioneers. DUP Pioneer History Collection.

From the wee hoose among the heather......to the wee hoose on the Weber : ancestors and descendants of David Simpson and Janet Hunter Cook

Cook, David Simpson, Reminiscence in Ruth P. Tippets

Ruth P. Tippetts, "Cook, David Simpson, Reminiscence in Ruth P. Tippets", From the wee hoose among the heather......to the wee hoose on the Weber : ancestors and descendants of David Simpson and Janet Hunter Cook, Page 18-19.

<xhtml:p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Landed in St. Louis on the 16th of May went out to Gravious Duguns. Commenced to labor there at the coal diggins, stayed there 11 months, enjoyed good health all that time. We left there with a 3 horse team, went with my brother William on the 16th of April for Kainsville [Kanesville]. We landed on the 15th of May, landed in [-] enjoying good health. We stayed there until the 1st of July, owing to heavy rains that season we left Kainsville on the 6 mile grove for the city of the Great Salt Lake on the 2nd of July 1851. We had to leave the horn owing to high waters that season which turned us out of our way 160 miles[.] on that route we lost our horses along with other six belonging to Henry Rice, James E[a]ston between the two branches of the Lupe [Loup] Fork. I having paid my passage in brother Burts team from Kainsville did not [-] us for, my brother got in another wagon so we moved along after having hunted after our horses 3 days. We had no loose after that, no deaths, no sickness with the exception of Alexander Esten [Easton], had the mountain fevor, so his brother George with myself and brother [David] Mustered [Mustard] left our town within 4 hundred miles of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. He got better and we landed in the valley on the 8th of September 1851 . . .</xhtml:p>

Transcript for Cook, David Simpson, Reminiscence in Ruth P. Tippets, From the wee hoose among the heather . . . to the wee hoose on the Weber: ancestors and descendants of David Simpson and Janet Hunter Cook, [1991], 18-19

From the wee hoose among the heather......to the wee hoose on the Weber : ancestors and descendants of David Simpson and Janet Hunter Cook.

John D. T. McAllister journals, 1851-1906 / Reminiscences, 1851-1853

John D. T. McAllister journals, 1851-1906 / Reminiscences, 1851-1853, Page 6-7.

We started with a Company of emigrants for the Valey of the Great Salt Lake[.] it was Called Elder Orson Pratts emigrating Compy[.] James W. Cummings was Chosen Captn. of the Compy.] the Compy. Consisted of a hundred and fifty wagons and that Company was divided into three fiftys and Wm Bates was Chosen Captn.. of the first fifty, Alfred Cordon was Chosen Captn.. of the Second and Morris Felps [Phelps] was Chosen Captn.. of the third fifty[.] thus Compy. was div[id]ed into tens and Captn.s. Chosen for them and John [Daniel] T[hompson] McAllister was Chosen as Clerk of the Second fifty[.] I will now give a Sketch of our travels from the time we left kanesville until we arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake which are the travels of the Second fifty[.] I Shall first give the names of the heads of families[.] the number of Souls , waggons, oxen, cows, loose Cattle, and Horses, that belonged to the fifty



July 1851 
Roll of 2nd Fifty 
Names of Heads of Families



First Ten 
Captn. Miles Anderson, 8 Souls, 3 Waggons, 24 Oxen, 1 Cow, 3 Loose Cattle, 1 Horse 
Wm Holt, 7 Souls, 2 Waggons, 14 Oxen, 1 Cow, 1 Loose Cattle, 1 Horse 
Allen J. Stout, 7 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen 
Jno. [John] D.T. McAllister, 4 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen, 2 Loose Cattle 
Caroline H. Gillim, 11 Souls, 3 Waggons, 20 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Wm Gough, 3 Souls, 1 Waggon, 2 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Stephen Muir, 4 Souls, 1 Waggon, 8 Oxen 
Ransom L. Mark, 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Total, <s>284</s> 278 Souls, <s>61</s> 60 Waggons, <s>293</s> 289 Oxen, <s>106</s> 105 Cows, 7 Loose Cattle, 29 20 Horses



Second Ten 
Captn. George Spratley, 4 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Alfred Cordon, 6 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Jno. [John] Wood, 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 4 Cows 
Jno. Hays, 6 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
George Baddaley [Baddley], 4 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Richard Steel[e], 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 5 Oxen, 3 Cows, 1 Horse 
Edwin Oakey, 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Ephram Luce, 1 Soul, 1 Waggon, 2 Horses 
Jno. Haslam, 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Jno. Hamon [Hamer], 2 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 1 Cow 
Wm Player, 2 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows, 1 Horse



Third Ten 
Captn. Levi Hamon, 7 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 4 Cows 
Wm Booth, 4 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
John Maddison, 6 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen 
Nathaniel Steward [Stewart], 12 Souls, 2 Waggons, 10 Oxen, 3 Cows 
Edwin Trimmer, 7 Souls, 2 Waggons, 8 Oxen, 6 Cows 
Byron Bybee, 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 6 Cows 
Jno. Gallop, 10 Souls, 2 Waggons, 4 Oxen, 6 Cows, 1 Loose Cattle 
Ja[me]s Heath, 9 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 4 Cows 
Jno Fisher, 7 Souls, 2 Waggons, 6 Oxen, 1 Cow



Fourth Ten 
Captn.. Jno. Easton, 7 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Alexn. [Alexander] Easton, 8 Souls, 2 Waggons, 8 Oxen, 2 Cows, 6 Horses 
Jas Easton, 6 Souls, 2 Waggons, 6 Oxen, 2 Cows, 7 Horses 
Alex Meir, 6 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 4 Cows 
Jno. Birt, 6 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Jno. Stodget [Stoddard], 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Jno. Bullock, 4 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Wm Hartshorn, 4 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen 
Henry Reese, 7 Souls, 1 Waggon, 2 Cows 
Captn. Henry Goldsbrough, 3 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen, 2 Cows 
David Thorn, 13 Souls, 2 Waggons, 14 Oxen, 4 Cows 
D. Brown, 9 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Thos. [Thomas] Howard, 10 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen, 1 Cow 
Isaac Piper, 3 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen, 2 Cows 
W[illia]m Smith, 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 6 Oxen, 2 Cows 
Ja[me]s Shelly, 9 Souls, 2 Waggons, 12 Oxen, 4 Cows, 1 Horse 
Wm Thorn, 7 Souls, 2 Waggons, 12 Oxen, 4 Cows 
Jno. Brown, 5 Souls, 1 Waggon, 4 Oxen

Transcript for John D. T. McAllister journals, 1851-1906, Reminiscences, 1851-1853, 6-7

John D. T. McAllister journals, 1851-1906 / Reminiscences, 1851-1853.

Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson

Burt, John Davidson

"Burt, John Davidson", Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, 2, Page 61.

Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson.

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