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History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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SAMUEL BRANNAN'S PARTY. 213<br />

court during that autumn, for fear <strong>of</strong> collision between<br />

saints and gentiles, and the governor was recommended<br />

to station in that vicinity a small military force to<br />

keep peace during the winter.<br />

During the height <strong>of</strong> the troubles at Nauvoo, Orson<br />

Pratt was in New York, where on the 8th <strong>of</strong> November,<br />

1845, he addressed a farewell message to the<br />

brethren in the east, calling upon such <strong>of</strong> them as<br />

had means to sell their property, buy teams, and join<br />

the overland emigration, and those who had none to<br />

take passage in the ship Brooklyn, chartered for the<br />

purpose by Elder Samuel Brannan, and which was to<br />

sail round Cape Horn, via the Hawaiian Islands, for<br />

California. Shortly after, the Brooklyn sailed with<br />

238 emigrants, the price <strong>of</strong> passage being $50 for<br />

adults, with $25 additional for subsistence. The details<br />

<strong>of</strong> this expedition, with names <strong>of</strong> the emigrants,<br />

their doings in California, and the departure for the<br />

Great Salt Lake <strong>of</strong> a large portion <strong>of</strong> them, is given<br />

in volume V. chapter XX. <strong>of</strong> my <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> California.<br />

Upon his return to Nauvoo, Pratt brought $400 worth<br />

<strong>of</strong> Allen's six-shooting pistols.

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