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Day in the Life

Apr 16, 1847

Journal Entry

April 16, 1847 ~ Friday

16th Brother Little, P. Rockwell & J. Reading returned
to winter quarters the camp continued up the Platt
4 miles & camped & turned their horses upon
an Island of cottonwood & rushesh. the wind
blew exceding hard during the night. Before we left
this morning the camp came together, and was
organized for Journeying as a military body into tens
50 & 100s. Col Markham & A. P Rockwood was appoin-
ted Captains over A Hundred & 4 Captains of fifties
& Captains of tens. I was appointed Capt of ten
the following are the names of the persons belonging
to my ten W. Woodruff J. S Fowler J. Burnham,
O. Pratt, Joseph Egbert, John M. Freeman. Marcus B
Thorp, G. A. Smith, George Wardle. Being 9 in all
the camp consisted of 73 waggons & 143 men
3 women & 2 children making 148 souls in all

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Rockwood, Albert Perry
9 Jun 1805 - 26 Nov 1879
123 mentions
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1380 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
2 mentions
3 mentions
7 mentions
Little, Jesse Carter
26 Sep 1815 - 26 Dec 1893
172 mentions
2 mentions
23 mentions
Egbert, Joseph
10 Mar 1818 - 24 May 1898
4 mentions
3 mentions
48 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1037 mentions
Apostle
31 mentions

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Platte River, unorganized U.S. territory
Winter Quarters, unorganized U.S. Territory

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Epistle to the Brethren at Winter Quarters, 16 April 1847
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Apr 16, 1847