• James sailed to America in 1843 on the ship Claiborne.

  In mid-July, the Thatcher company joined with Saints from Carson Valley and reorganized under the leadership of Perrigrine Sessions to continue traveling to Utah.

Hezekiah Thatcher Company (1857)

• Age at Departure: 25

Sources

• Anderson, Washington F. to Editor, 12 Aug. 1857, Bear River Ferry, in Historian's Office, History of the Church 1839-[ca. 1882], 414-18, 12 Aug. 1857.
• Boyle, Henry Green, Reminiscences and diaries, 1846-1888, fd. 1, 119.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.