Richard, a blacksmith, sailed from England twice: once on the ship Chimborazo in 1855 and again on the ship Underwriter in 1860. In the 1860 U. S. census he was a forty year old man living in Nebraska with twenty-two year old Eliza R. Brett, presumably his wife. In 1861 Brigham Young received word a Richard Brett had joined the Morrisites in South Ogden, Utah. The Morrisite-L site on roots web verifies that this is Richard H. Brett.