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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        24 October 1803
        Death Date
        16 October 1884
        Gender
        Male
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        Peter I. Mesick

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        • Peter first arrived in the Valley with the sick detachments of the Mormon Battalion. Shortly after arriving, he returned to Winter Quarters. He crossed the plains again in 1848 with the Richards company, in which he served as captain of the third ten.

        Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

        • Age at Departure: 43

        Willard Richards Company (1848)

        • Age at Departure: 44

        Sources

        • 1850 Utah Census.
        • Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.
        • "Deaths," Deseret News [Weekly] , 29 Oct. 1884, 656.
        • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 17.
        • Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833-1971. (Closed to Research)
        • Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 23.
        • Rollins, James H., Sketches from camp journal of Pres. Amasa Lyman's Company [24 July 1848 report], in George Albert Smith, Papers, 1834-1882, box 4, fd. 11.
        • Treasures of Pioneer History, 4:511.