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Box 1

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Contains 25 Results:

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company treasurer records, 1854-1857

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 843
Scope and Contents

Contains three items by Daniel MacKintosh, treasurer of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund, related to the financial status of the company.

Dates: 1854-1857

Edward Hunter correspondence regarding Perpetual Emigrating Fund, 1866-1868

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSS 843
Scope and Contents

Contains three printed letters to or from Edward Hunter, Presiding Bishop, related to using the Perpetual Emigrating Fund to assist pioneers emigrating to Utah. Correspondents include the Brigham Young and A. O. Smoot. Dated 1866-1868.

Dates: 1866-1868

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company correspondence, 1853 August 31-1855 April 15

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 843 File 2
Scope and Contents

Includes the following letters: Brigham Young to S. W. Richards, 31 August 1853; Daniel MacKintosh to S. W. Richards, 24 February 1855; Erastus Snow to Richard Ballantyne, 7 May 1855, asking Ballantyne to help Henry P. Phelps, a missionary, make the overland trip to Utah with help from the PEF; and, Stephen Markham to Brigham Young, 15 April 1855, including names of people the PEF is to help come to Utah that year.

Dates: 1853 August 31-1855 April 15

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company passenger lists, 1863 April 30-June 4

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 843 File 3
Scope and Contents

This folder contains passenger lists for the ships "B. T. Kimball", "John I. Boyd", "Antarctic" and "Amazon". The Amazon company of Saints was visited while still in London harbor by Charles Dickens and described in his book "Uncommercial Traveler".

Dates: 1863 April 30-June 4