• Thomas traveled overseas on the ship Golconda, with his wife, children, and son-in-law, arriving in New Orleans on 18 March 1854. All but his daughter, Sarah Ann Squires, and son-in-law, John Green, died of Cholera in Missouri before leaving for Utah. First documentation to place him in Utah was a marriage in Salt Lake in November 1855 to Margaret Luke Thompson. 

Company Unknown (1855)

• Age at Departure: 43

Sources

• 1860 Utah Census.
• 1870 Colorado Census.
• England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 2.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America