• John and Elizabeth sailed to America in 1848 on the ship Erin's Queen.

  The family's surname is spelled "Birt" on the company roster. They traveled with 6 people.

John Easton Company (1851)

• Age at Departure: 24
• Head of Household

Sources

• Alfred Cordon Emigrating Company journal, 1851 June-September.
• "Brigham City: Patriarch John D. Burt," Deseret Evening News , 7 May 1906, 3.
• Burt, John Davidson, [Autobiographical sketch], in Andrew Jenson, comp., Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia [1971], 2:61.
• Burt, John Davidson, Autobiographical sketch, 3.  Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
• Cook, David Simpson, Reminiscence in Ruth P. Tippets, From the wee hoose among the heather . . . to the wee hoose on the Weber: ancestors and descendants of David Simpson and Janet Hunter Cook , [1991], 18-19.
• "John D. Burt Dead," Box Elder News, 10 May 1906, 1.
• John Davidson Burt, Biographical sketches, 1891-2013. 
• "Reminiscences, 1851-1853." In John D. T. McAllister journals 1851-1906. (MS 1257, Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 1), 6-7.
• Stoddard, David Kerr, Autobiographical sketch.