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Transcript for David Candland report, in Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862, Reports, 1850-1852

I am instructed by Capt. [James] McGaw to embody in this report, a brief Synopsis of the course pursued by Elder Crandall Dunn (Captain of the 3rd Ten)[.] In consequence of his company not be filled I was instructed to place W Milam in said Ten. I did and reported such to C. Dunn on Sunday last which he acknowledged at the time. Yesterday at the river he disclaimed Bro. W[illiam] Milam and sought to crowd in 2 wagons which Capt. McGaw had refilled and in as much as C. Dunn never reported them and they were refused[.] an objection was again raised by the Capt. to their crossing in the fifty. Dunn there go his [..ams] over and has left the organization and started West independent of all the authorities and rules of the Camp of Israel. This however, is but the fulfilnes of a refractory spirit manifested by some of the family while in camp and the result of disappointed ambition.

List of Names accompanying C. Dunn

C. Dunn & family
William Foster
James Dunn & family
William Gates & family
Claude Rogers
Charles Hewelling & family Thomas Ruff
[Daniel] Phillip Olmstead & family Samuel Barnett & family

 

I am respectfully Yours so
David Candland
Clerk of 17 th Fifty

 

[also in Delna Swapp Powell, James McGaw Eleventh Pioneer Emigration Company 1852 [2002], xi-xii]