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Brown, John, Reminiscences and journals, 1843-1896

Brown, John, Reminiscences and journals, 1843-1896, Vol. 1.

15th [June] At night Elder Bolton arrived with the last company &lt;300&gt; Saints[.] Next day we moved them up to camp[.] We fited the company and Started on the <s>first</s> of June [July] 1. Elder Haight organised the Company[.] I was chosen President[,] C E. Bolton Chaplan[,] John Weston captain of 50 and Brothers Newton[,] Wearham [Wareham,] Lamb[,] Jones and Wm. Fife capt of 10. Next day we had a severe rainstorm[.] broke one waggon tongue[.] Our cattle were principally raw &amp; our teamsters entirely so[.] they were right from the factories in England &amp; many of them had never seen an ox team[.] On Fox River two families apostatized &amp; left the company[.] At Indian Town we had to Ferry the nishnebotna [Nishnabotna] I had the missfortune to get my waggon into the river &amp; got my goods all wet however the most of them took no harm but were all right after drying



I reached Kanesville on the 14th of July here I met with brother Haight[,] [Appleton M.] Harman &amp; Levi Richards brother Harmans company were at the Ferry We riged up &amp; crossed the River on the 20 &amp; 21st of July



On the 22nd set out from the Mo [Missouri] River



23 crossed the Elkhorn at the Loup fork[.] we overtook Brother Harman On the Loup[.] Br Haight[,] Levi Stewart &amp; Br Dunyon passed us. on their way to the mountains we also met a company of Elders from S[alt] Lake going on Missions[.] P C Merrill was their captain[.] They had a block of marble for the Washington Monument from Utah[.] There had a great amount of rain fallen on the plains and the roads were very muddy[.] at Wood River we were water bound three days. The [there] had been a bridge but it was washed away. Suitable timber for bridgeing could not be got[.] While here brother Jackson Stewart came up with his train of 19 waggons of Merchantise[.] Brother Harman crossed just before the water covered the bridge[.] he hauled up some timber on the opposite side for us &amp; moved on[.] We scarcely knew what to do[.] many plans were proposed[.] the Stream was deep &amp; narrow but no timber on it long enough to reach across[.] There was a large Elm standing on the bank near the camp[.] We concluded to fall it into the river[,] it had very large branches[,] it scarcely reached across the channel it hung on the stump &amp; appeared to be verry solid[.] We concluded to build a bridge on it[.] We chained one end &amp; tied the other with a large rope to prevent it from floating around[.] We worked hard all day &amp; got a fabric of ash logs &amp; poles &amp; 1 by making abutments on the Elm in the middle of the River[.] We did not work after any order of architect that I had ever seen but on an entire new plan[.] We made a track wide enough for a waggon by puting them timbers lengthways across the stream putting them side by side as close as we could place them until we got it about 8 feet wide while some were doing this others were giting brush willows &amp; to cover it at this stage of the work night came on our timbers lying on the surface of the water



After dark it commenced &amp; raining on the head of the stream[.] I was much concerned about my bridge so that I could not sleep. By the time it was light next morning I had all hands up &amp; at the bridge the water had fallen about one foot[.] We went to work &amp; put the brush on crossways on the timbers a thick covering we then run a light waggon over by hand it answered well by this time[.] I had two teams on the opposite side to draw the waggons away and by ten A.M., we had both companies over safe without the least accident



We still had rain &amp; mud &amp; Mosquitoes out of number They were so bad that we could not sleep for them some nights They tormented us until we got to Larime [Laramie.] We met the Pawnees near Ft Kearney this demanded a large present in the shape of flour[,] sugar &amp; coffee &amp; we gave them some but were verry sorry They said the folks at the Fort told them to do so to the Mormons



At the Mouth of Wolf Creek Brother Richard F Jones was drowned in the Platt[e] while bathing[,] he was my teamster[.] At Larime I got a letter from home all well[.] At the Labontee [La Bonet] I buried an old Sister [Ann] Roberts[.] She died of heart dropsy At Green River I buried her husband died of Diarrhae [diarrhea.] .At Bear River I buried a brother [Edward] Ogdon [Ogden.] he was blind had the chills &amp; fever &amp; diarrhae[.] At Ft Bridger I found Captain James Cummings with 20 men in possession of the Fort[.] They came out there in the summer to arrest Bridger for treason[.] affidavits having been that he had sold or furnished hostile Indians amunition &amp; he made his escape &amp; some of the possee were still there[.] They left for home when we passed being the last of the emigration for the season. Brother Harman &amp; myself joined our companies together near Independence Rock &amp; traveled together the remainder of the journey



The Indians were hostile at this time[.] We lost a number of cattle the feed being very scarce[.] We reached G S L City on the 17th of October &amp; camped on Union Square where we dismissed the companies &amp; sent off the teams[.] They gave us three hearty cheers in token of their will[.] Though we started late from the Mo [Missouri] river we got through without having one partical of snow nor rain in the mountains

Transcript for Brown, John, Reminiscences and journals, 1843-1896, vol. 1, 189-94

Brown, John, Reminiscences and journals, 1843-1896.

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.

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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