• Evidence from emigration, newspaper, and church (Perpetual Emigrating Fund) records proves he traveled to Utah in 1863. His surname is spelled "Marqvartzen" on the ship passenger list.

  A few years later, he crossed the plains again as a teamster for the 1866 Daniel Thompson out-and-back company.

John Riggs Murdock Company (1863)

• Age at Departure: 18

Daniel Thompson Company (1866)

• Age at Departure: 21

Sources

• Captain Daniel Thompson, memoranda book (1), 1866.
• “Captain Daniel Thompson, memoranda book (2), 1866,” in Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts 1862-1868.
• "Captain Daniel Thompson's (of Fillmore) Company." In Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Wards' accounts 1861-1868, Account book 1866 1868.
• "Deaths," Deseret Weekly, 22 April 1893, 576.