From Iowa I started for Florence on the 9 May From Florence I started with Elder Edmund Ellsworths Pione[e]r Handkart company on the 20 July, consisting of 56 Hand karts 20 Tents, 4 ox. Teams & 1 Mule Team & 266 Souls. Landed in Great Salt Lake City, U.T. on the 26 Sept 1856.