• In some sources his given name is spelled "Niels" or "Nils" and his surname is spelled "Peterson"; he was the Captain of the 4th Ten.

Jacob F. Secrist/Noah T. Guymon Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 33
• Head of Household

Sources

• 2nd Company of 50 reports, 1855 May 31.
• Hansen, Peter Olsen, Journal [ca. 1876], 121-24.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 September 1855, 6.
• Lever, W. H. History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah: With Sketches of Cities, Towns, and Villages; Chronology of Important Events; Records of Indian Wars; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens (Salt Lake City: Tribune Job Printing Co, 1898), 339
• “Nels Peterson Dead,” Ephraim Enterprise, 20 September 1906, [8].