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Benjamin Hawkins Company (1850)

 

 Departure:

5 June 1850

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

9 September 1850

Company Information:
150 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs).

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Borum ( or Brown ), [Child] (Unknown)

Borum ( or Brown ), [Mr.] (Unknown)

Bracket, [Widow] (Unknown)

Clark, Charlotte (15)

Clark, Elizabeth (14)

Clark, John Haslem (7)

Clark, Mary Noddings (53)

Clark, Thomas (15)

Davis, Caleb Hersey (11)

Durfee, Abraham [or Abram] (23)

Durfee, Celestia Ann (2)

Durfee, Jabez (22)

Durfee, Mahala Ruth (infant)

Durfee, Nephi (14)

Durfee, Ursula Curtis (23)

Garner, David (32)

Garner, David Edmond (4)

Garner, Dolly Durfee (34)

Garner, Fanny Marilla (5)

Garner, Louisa Ann (6)

Garner, Mary Marinda (infant)

Garner, William Franklin (1)

Gifford, Alpheus (infant)

Gifford, Anna Nash (50)

Gifford, Deborah (54)

Gifford, Ichabod (30)

Gifford, James (19)

Gifford, Levi (13)

Gifford, Levi (60)

Gifford, Lora Ann DeMill (22)

Gifford, Samuel Kendell (28)

Goforth, [Dr.] Thomas Nelson (23)

Hawkins, Benjamin (47)

Johnson, Thomas Smith (32)

Johnson [or Jensen], Charles (Unknown)

Knight, Betsey Covert (35)

Knight, Ellen Rebecca (1)

Knight, Joseph, Jr. (42)

Knight, Martha Ann (17)

Knight, Mary Elizabeth (14)

Knight, Rhoda Caroline (11)

 

Lamb, Benjamin Rush (3)

Lamb, Elizabeth (2)

Lamb, John Isaac (6)

Lamb , Elizabeth Dubois (26)

Lambert, Adelia G. Groesbeck (28)

Lambert, John (30)

Lambert, John Carlos (1)

Lambert, Martha Adelaide (3)

Lee, Ann Eliza (1)

Lee, Eliza Ann Foscue (20)

Lee, John Percival (26)

Lee, John Rupert (4)

Lee, Sarah Lucinda (3)

McDonald, Eliza (18)

McDonald, James (48)

McDonald, Jane (23)

McDonald, John (16)

McDonald, Joseph Smith (7)

McDonald, Mary (11)

McDonald, Robert (12)

McDonald, Sarah Ferguson (47)

McDonald, William (15)

Mecham, Arza (11)

Mecham, Elvira (10)

Mecham, George Henry (1)

Mecham, Joseph (32)

Mecham, Joseph (5)

Mecham, Melinda Haskell (33)

Miner, Alma Lindsay (9)

Miner, Don Carlos Smith (7)

Miner, Matilda (10)

Miner, Mormon (12)

Miner, Moroni (15)

Miner, Orson (17)

Miner, Polly (18)

Miner, Tamma Durfee (37)

Nelson, Anna (3)

Nelson, Edmond (8)

Nelson, Edmond (50)

Nelson, Jane Taylor (45)

Nelson, Joseph Smith (11)

Nelson, Mark (6)

Nelson, Mary Jane (18)

Nelson, Price Williams (27)

Nelson, Thomas Billington (15)

Nelson, William Goforth (19)

Peacock, George (27)

Peacock, George Daniel (infant)

Peacock, Mary Isabelle (6)

Peacock, Sarah Elizabeth (3)

Peacock, Sarah Lowry (29)

Peacock, William Henry (8)

Richards, [Brother] (Unknown)

Ross, Isaac R. (12)

Ross, Melvin (39)

Ross, Permelia R. (8)

Ross, Rebecca (infant)

Ross, Rebecca (33)

Ross, Sarah J. (4)

Shirts, Don Carlos (13)

Shirts, Elizabeth Ann (2)

Shirts, George Washington (18)

Shirts, King Darius (16)

Shirts, Margaret Cameron (41)

Shirts, Peter (41)

Shirts, Sariah Jane (11)

Tracy, Austin Walter (4)

Tracy, Eli Alexander (16)

Tracy, Helon Henry (1)

Tracy, Moses (40)

Tracy, Moses Mosiah (11)

Tracy, Nancy Naomi Alexander (34)

Wilkinson, Allen (31)

Wilkinson, Fanny [or Frances] (10)

Wilkinson, John (7)

Wilkinson, Mary (4)

Wilkinson, Mary Ann Morris (31)

Wilkinson, Sarah (3)

Wyrick, Jake (Unknown)

 

Narrative

 

"A Sketch From the Diary of William Goforth Nelson, Oxford Settler of 1864," Cache Valley Newsletter, Feb. 1977, 4.

"Emigration (From the Frontier Guardian, June 12th, 1850)," Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 15 Aug. 1850, 252-53.   

"From the Salt Lake Express Mail Company," Frontier Guardian, 2 Oct. 1850, 1.   

Clark, John Haslem, Autobiography of John Haslem Clark, 4, 6. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)   

Clark, John Haslem, Autobiography, 3. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)

Clark, John Haslem, [Autobiography], in Our Pioneer Heritage, 20 vols. [1958-77], 9:424-25.

Curtis, Tamma D. M., [Autobiography], in Arthur D. Coleman, comp., Carter Pioneers of Provo, Utah [1966], 123.   

Gifford, Samuel Kendall, Reminiscences, 1864, 8-10.   

Lambert, John, Statement 1893 Mar.   

McDonald, William, A Porshion of the History of My Life. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)   

McDonald, William, [Reminiscences], in Our Pioneer Heritage, 20 vols. [1958-77], 11:190-92.

Miner, Mormon, [Autobiography], in Facts and Fancies of the Glen Bryant Miner and Caroline Eyring Miner Family [1981], 5.   

Miner, Tamma Durfee, "A Memorial," in Campus Education Week Program, comp., Voices from the Past: Diaries, Journals, and Autobiographies, ed. Leonard J. Arrington, and others [1980], 81.

Nelson, Thomas Billington, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1902], fd. 273.   

Nelson, Thomas Billington, Life sketch, in Mormon biographical sketches collection [ca. 1900-1975], reel 9, box 11, fd. 1, item 10, 4.   

Nelson, William Goforth, Reminiscences, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9 Sept. 1850, 6-7.   

Nelson, William Goforth, Autobiographical sketch 1906.

Nelson, William Goforth, Autobiography, in Joel Edward Ricks, Cache Valley Historical Material [ca. 1955], reel 4, item 84, 12-13.

Nelson, William Goforth, [Journal], in "Church Emigration Book."

Peacock, George, Journal and reminiscences 1851 Nov.-1861 Apr., Journal #1, 6-7.

Tracy, Nancy Naomi Alexander, "Diary of Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy," [1956], 28-29.

Tracy, Nancy Naomi Alexander, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1896].

Tracy, Nancy Naomi Alexander, Reminiscences and diary, 1896 May-1899 July, 37-42.   

Tracy, Nancy M., "Autobiography," Woman's Exponent, Feb.1910, 55-56.   
   

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