History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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court during that autumn, for fear of collision between
saints and gentiles, and the governor was recommended
to station in that vicinity a small military force to
keep peace during the winter.
During the height of the troubles at Nauvoo, Orson
Pratt was in New York, where on the 8th of November,
1845, he addressed a farewell message to the
brethren in the east, calling upon such of them as
had means to sell their property, buy teams, and join
the overland emigration, and those who had none to
take passage in the ship Brooklyn, chartered for the
purpose by Elder Samuel Brannan, and which was to
sail round Cape Horn, via the Hawaiian Islands, for
California. Shortly after, the Brooklyn sailed with
238 emigrants, the price of passage being $50 for
adults, with $25 additional for subsistence. The details
of this expedition, with names of the emigrants,
their doings in California, and the departure for the
Great Salt Lake of a large portion of them, is given
in volume V. chapter XX. of my History of California.
Upon his return to Nauvoo, Pratt brought $400 worth
of Allen's six-shooting pistols.