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Contains 1 Result:

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company contracts or bonds with emigrants departing from St. Louis, 1855 April-June

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: MSS 843
Scope and Contents

A collection of documents issued by Erastus Snow from the LDS Emigrating Office in St. Louis, Missouri, to immigration officer James McGaw in Atchison, Kansas. The documents verify a named immigrant from Europe had deposited a sum of money in Liverpool and that this money is to be used in exchange for goods and supplies for their journey to Utah. The documents are numbered No. 7-60, with some gaps, and date from 14 April to 8 June 1855. Many are signed on Snow's behalf by James M. Brown.

Dates: 1855 April-June
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 843, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company records

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