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Show 44 the settlement in Utah in 1847 that records attain pleteness,l this is study mainly of degree some com- centered upon the movement of Scottish Mormons to Utah. It was and with the aid of individually so for many years. Known was to as region.2 aff e c t e d one by a society was 11 doing in Lanark. organized of Farmers, tand-- been they had its purpose, IAn in the slump some and Glasgow y .P While they continued, mass examination of church r e cor d.s was during in lesser numbers? emigration 1851-60 when 38,331 Paisley 20,000 Scots emigrated the most concentrated movement of Scots until the decade for such Company business America, nothing like this I societies emigration Between 1768 and 1775 c en tu r priod for Scots to leave their native land in America and settle it with farmers who had been United States, eenth In 1773 the "Scots -American buy adversely to not at all unusual of Scots emigrants to was to the the eight- emigrate seen again from Scotland landed reports indicates that the sparsest 1840-47 and the fullest, 1848-54. An example of the type of statistical records kept by the Glasgow Conference and other Conferences of the church may be seen on the following page. stres s upon keeping membership records and Church Lea d e r s laid great personal journals. gow See Millennial Star, Quarterly Conference, 2Ian C. North America, 3Ibid., C. Graham, 1707-1783 85-8. X, March 24-25, 85; also Report of the Glas 1849. Colonists from Scotland: (Ithaca, 1956)'1 pp. 29-31.. Emigratin to |
