Edward Martin Emigrating Company
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Patience Loader Archer autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3238
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten autobiography. Patience tells about her early life in England and her conversion to the Mormon Church. She presents one of the best accounts from the Martin handcart company and goes into considerable detail on the ordeal. Patience tells about the rescue and the continuous efforts of the people in the ill-fated handcart company to survive. She also writes about her arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, and about the efforts by Brigham Young,...
Dates:
1872
Ship passenger lists
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489572]
Identifier: MSS 568
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of handwritten lists. One item is dated 30 June and presents the names of the passengers of the 'Horizon' that left from Liverpool, England, in 1856. The 856 entries include the names, occupations, and ages of the passangers and where they were born. Many of the passangers on the 'Horizon' were Mormon immigrants who migrated to Utah in the ill-fated Martin handcart company later that year. Also included are partial lists of passengers on the ships the 'James Wesmoth' and the...
Dates:
1856
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Ship passenger lists