• Benjamin was traveling with his wife and two daugthers. His birth date is confirmed by the Patriarchal Blessing Index

Canute Peterson Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 46
• Head of Household

Sources

• “2nd Company of 50 report, 1856 June.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1856-1862. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 46)
• "Died," Deseret News, 22 January 1879, 16.
• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 20 September 1856, 7.
• Pett, James, [Autobiography], in Marble, B. Glen, comp., Mormon Marbles: Roots and Branches [1977?], 71-74.