• Evidence that he came in 1856 is confirmed in information found in Church financial records.

Edmund Ellsworth Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 24

Sources

• Edmund Ellsworth Emigrating Company papers, 1856, Folder contents: (1) Journal, 1856 June-September.
• "Father Phillips Dead," Deseret Evening News , 4 Sep. 1903.
• Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, 26 September 1856, 30.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 251.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 174.
• Phillips, Jonah, in Utah Stake, Genealogical Committee, Personal Histories, ca. 1917, 2:385.
• Phillips, Jonah.  Historical Journal of Jonah Phillips.