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Show 82 board the "International but felt never Saints. " happy so II said that "he had crossed the with any procedure followed The on at his excellent an emigrant ships to of the organizing for the embarking, our Conferences in description were Day and not that if a soul of otherwise with ments were made, each ward had the 5th Scotch ward, a on us us. would die; but if On the 21st and the visit and keep ing , all the Pastors getting Presidentj we D. instructions did wrong it would be /April, 1855/ , ship ';as divided-into I being appointed in which chanced to be acquaintances. counsellors, c ro s s shipboard during prophicied by F. D. Richards and Daniel board did right we wuld be preserved, was we general called to meet with F. lodgings It passage. Spencer 1857. he had with the Latter for the purpose of how to conduct ourselves and those on our were the evening previous and Presidents of Richards 2 as many times 1 Matthew Rowan has left as people seas quite a to our arrange 7 wards and preside number of over myoId The Presidents of each ward had each and in each ward the Saints in good were appointed order etc. 2 Strict Teachers, to discepline Of the total passengers on the "Enoch Train, II 534, some 146 Scots who had left Glasgow under Daniel D. Mc.Ar thu r ' s direction. 1 John Lyon, Diary of a Voyage from Liverpool to New Orleans Ship International ( Salt Lake City, n. d.). The complete diary is reproduced in Appendix A. It should be noted here that exten sive studies of the details of the Mormon emigration to Utah have been done by Leland H. Creer, The Founding of an Empire, the Exploration and Colonization of Utah, 1776-1856 (Salt Lake City, Bookcraft, 1947); William Mulder, Homeward to Zion, The Mormon Migration from Scan These -s t.u d i e s describe in detail the westward journey of the dinavia. Mormons. Inasmuch as the Scots were part of the general Mormon migration this chapter will not attempt to repeat all the details of the movement westward, but will instead give some account of Scottish participation in the movement. See articles by P. A. M. Taylor, "Mor mons and Gentiles on the Atlantic" and "The Mormon Crossing of the in Utah Historical Quarterly, XXIV, 195-214 United States, 1840-1870, on Board the II and XXV, 319, respectivel y. |
