The Ship "Brooklyn"
Author(s): Amelia D. Everett
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Source: California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Sep., 1958), pp. 229-240
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The
Ship "Brooklyn
D. Everett
By Amelia
the
On
breezy
bright,
afternoon
of
31,
July
1846,
there
sailed
through theGolden Gate the ship Brooklyn, piloted by Capt. Edward
Richardson,
who
peace-seeking,
called Mormons.
Aboard
also part-owner.
Latter
and
worried
sea-weary,
craftsmen
Expert
farmers with domestic
animals
them;
sional men; mainly
New York
they left
100 children.
But
sliding
The
printer
were
was
from
over
two hundred
Saints, commonly
Day
of goods were
among
a few
and
and
equipment;
profes
with
the eastern United
stocks
States.
Of
70 were
on
the total when
68 women,
and
men,
4,1846,
February
the voyage
there had been spiritual back
during
two births.1
taken ten, and there were
death
had
four,
involving
a
elder of the group was Samuel Brannan,
leader or presiding
and his
by trade.2 Most Calif ornians have heard about Brannan
accomplishments, but the details of his first and probably his greatest
and managing
of the
for
Brooklyn
cargo-ship
less
familiar.
Born
in
in
Saco, Maine,
1819,
voyage?are
a
a forceful
with
and
handsome
man,
large
personality;
down where
and the Brooklyn
put him and his fellow-passengers
they
were
sure the Lord had sent them.
descendants
of
many
Consequently,
success?the
chartering
this important
Brannan was
now
the
live to
and the voyage,
the Brooklyn
glorify
ship
pioneers
at times for the voyagers.
itwas a
though
trying experience
was built atNewcastle,
in 18 34, and was a full
The Brooklyn
Maine,
11 inches beam,
inches
feet
of
4
445 tons, 125
long, 27 feet
rigged ship
13 feet 11/2 inches depth of hold.3 The records show that inNovem
ber 1839 she was owned atNew York by Abel W. Richardson,
Stephen
Elder Brannan
and her captain, Edward Richardson.
C. Burdett,
chart
and
at $1200 per month,
to California
the rate of passage
being
an additional
at $50 for adults, with
of
$25 for subsistence.
charge
Her
and the cabins and bunks he had built cost over
provisioning
he was courageous
and
$ 16,000; and though he did not have the money,
ered her
fixed
shrewd enough to raise itwith the help of his flock.4
Like
their forbears,
these
pilgrims
229
were
seeking
a
place
for freedom
230 California Historical
in
of worship,
spite of the fact
Society Quarterly
that their
departure
was
from
the port of
New York, supposed to be the front door to the land of freedom itself.
But mobs had murdered their prophet, Joseph Smith, and his brother
and had driven
Hyrum,
their co-religionists
from
state to state.5 In far
away California they hoped at last to find a refuge. En route they
at the Hawaiian
stopped
proceeds
helping
the United
ships;
for which
they
gers became
Islands
to
to deliver
500 barrels
of their passage. There
defray part
States was at war
were
headed was
They
panic-stricken.
with
subject
feared
Mexico,
to attack.
they would
of freight,
the
saw war
they
and the very
place
Some of the passen
be stranded
on the
Island of Oahu instead of going to California. Others favored going to
Island. But the peril of war was not the para
in the
leader.
of their adventure-loving
thoughts
problem
a
contract
he had signed with
Instead, Brannan was remembering
were
New
Benson
and
of
who
said to have
York,
Kendall,
Company
was
to
influence with
the government,
which
the
prevent
disposed
to
furnish
Mormons
from leaving. This
if
company
agreed
protection
an
to
to
the Mormon
leaders would
"A.
transfer
G.
agreement
sign
or to Victoria
Oregon
mount
and their heirs and assigns,"
the odd
Company
or
town
and
lots
settled
of all land units
acquired by the Mor
to colonize.6
mons wherever
In other words,
choose
they might
were
to divide with
their "inheritance"
in the new
Mormons
politicians
a
the agreement
and in vain waited
Brannan
Zion-to-be.
signed
nearly
to
arrive by mail from Nauvoo,
month
for Brigham Young's
signature
Kendall
Benson,
number
and
Illinois. By February 4, 1846, he had determined to slip past the guns
York
in New
harbor without
any longer.
Lafayette
waiting
the pact for their
he wondered?
hadn't Young
He
signed
safety,
never rest until he found out.
of Fort
Why
would
Now
he was faced with
Commodore
Robert
the threat of being stopped inHawaii
F. Stockton.
He must
see Stockton.
The
by
interview
to Samuel Brannan.
Instead of pre
exhilarating,
had encouraged
Stockton
the
venture.7
He
said
venting
at
that the Navy was to begin an assault against Mexico
and
Monterey,
take and hold Yerba Buena
that the Mormons
he offered the suggestion
proved
even
pleasing,
their progress,
in the name
buying
some
of the United
outmoded
States. To
arms
from
that end, he assisted
the Navy.
Brannan
Brannan
drilled
in
the
an
the Brooklyn,
aided
passengers
seventy
by Samuel Ladd,
another
and
Robert
who
mili
understood
Smith,
ex-soldier,
passenger
Brannan
reminded
them of their
tary tactics. As for dissenters,
obliga
male
of
The Ship Brooklyn
231
a
tion to prepare
in California
for the 10,000 overland
pioneers
place
were
westward
Brannan never took
led
by Brigham Young.
being
who
his fellow voyagers into his full confidence; and they, on their part,
liked neither his pomposity nor his forceful methods of ruling, but,
with
to
they obeyed.8
loyalty
leadership,
at Honolulu
Brooklyn's
stop-over
prompted
Mormon
The
the town's
leading
newspaper, The Friend, published and edited by Samuel C. Damon, to
account
in its July
of the visitors'
1, 1846, issue, an extended
on
ecclesiastical
and
their
The
beliefs
passengers
religious
organization.
come
were
to
"have
from the
the Brooklyn
said
others from
Baptists,
a few from
while
the Presbyterians,
almost
the Methodists,
every
give,
in
has its
difficulties
among them_The
representative
at
and other parts of the
which
these people found themselves
Nauvoo,
to 'break
and 'be off' for California."
States have led to the resolution
up'
soon
and others would
left
had already
Mormon
emigrants
Liverpool
west.
"in
all
The
had
referred
for
the
bound
follow,
Brooklyn's
captain
denomination
to his
manner"
and
"general behavior
passengers'
we differ,"
con
article
"That
the
the
during
long voyage.
and
is
essential points of doctrine
tinued, "upon many
practice
clearly
our
are to
and prayers go with
best wishes
manifest,
yet
them_They
...
of
institutions,
social, civil and religious. O, may
lay the foundations
shall rise up and call them
be such that coming
generations
they
blessed."
the most
favorable
character"
were
on the way
they
again
bolt of cloth from the cargo,
When
suitable
a
to California,
Brannan
dug up
and the women
it into
fashioned
Each man had a
for their new-fledged
warriors.
cap,
military
were
revolvers
available.9 Thus
and there
50 Allen's
outfitted,
they
as
drilled while
they sailed. On July 31,1846,
they neared their destina
strutted to the front of the deck. Why
shouldn't
tion Samuel Brannan
on San Francisco
he and his men plant the American
flag
Bay? That
an
were
act
notice.
be
would
of
thereafter,
worthy
Shortly
they
passing
of
the
Golden
Gate.
the
Sam was eagerly
rocky portals
through
peering
saw a war
in the cove; but
the telescope. He
through
ship anchored
was the
the
what was more to his consternation
of
American
sight
flag,
not
that
he
in
"Damn
and
hoisted
for the
said,
flag!"
waving.
disrespect
uniforms
flag but in disappointment that he had not arrived in time to be the first
to
fly it.10
from
Cannon
from
the Brooklyn
the Yerba
Buena
responded.
A
battery
boomed
a salute,
sturdy
rowboat
glided
and a gun
out to meet
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the Brooklyn's
deck. The Mormons
Americans
from the U.S.S.
happy
friendly
"In our
the
of
Portsmouth,
passengers
reported:
courte
in
the
with
head
native
officer
uncovered,
command,
tongue
and gentlemen,
I have the honor to inform you that
ously said, 'Ladies
them.
uniformed
Soon
trod
were
to see that
they
not Mexicans.
One
were
are in the United
you
given
The
States
of America.'
Three
hearty
were
cheers
in
reply."11
at Yerba Buena was strewn with hides and the
long sandy beach
were
a few
oaks and,
skeletons
cattle. There
of slaughtered
scrubby
rose as a
to the adobe customshouse
sandhills
low
background
beyond,
and some old shanties
that leaned away
from the wind.
Dejected
looking donkeys plodded along beneath bundles of wood. Here
stretched
themselves
and
on the beach. That
lazy fashion
to be San Francisco?
Buena?soon
in
there, loungers
town" was Yerba
"odd, uncouth
new Zion.12
of the
the landing place for the children
hoped-for
the Brooklyn's
constituted
the first
So far as is known,
passengers
women
to sail around
with
their
Horn
and
colony
Anglo-Saxon
Cape
was
to
The
and
land in California.
the second to
children,
ship herself
was raised. War
come
the American
through the Golden Gate after
flag
had
scarcely
seventy
A Mexican
begun.
Mormon
impromptu
counter-attack
soldiers were
was
welcome.
expected,
A month
and the
before,
the Bear Flag revolt had precipitated hostilities in California. Commo
dore
had
Sloat
"California
now
Battalion"
Monterey,
captured
was
south
marching
and
to engage
Colonel
Fremont's
the enemy.
Yerba
stood exposed.
to land after six months
travelers were
in
sea-weary
glad
a dozen
crowded
cabins. They
found a community
of
half
consisting
Americans
from the Portsmouth),
(other than the sailors and Marines
100 Indians.
several members
of Spanish
and
about
families,
Everyone
Buena's
flank
The
to see the Brooklyn,
and the natives were
amazed at the amount
and variety
of the things taken off her. There was Brannan's
printing
two
with
and type, and all the material
press
years'
supply of paper
one of the two church
to the Prophet,
had
papers Brannan
pertaining
wanted
published
numerous
in New
York.
There
for farmers
were
and
three
flour
a saw mill,
for 800 men,
to the
colony.13
mills,
mechanics?enough
implements
be later additions
that there would
expectation
two milch
There were
cows, forty pigs, and a crate of fowls; saddles;
a blacksmith's
iron
tin;
sewing machines;
forge,
pipes, brass, copper,
medical
smooth-bore
tents;
dry goods; hammocks,
crockery;
supplies;
in the
The Ship Brooklyn 233
to last them another month;
and books?more,
food enough
muskets;
one writer
states, than could be found in all the rest of the territory put
the Bible and of the Book
them were many
together. Among
copies of
also copies of the Doctrine
of Mormon;
"Pearl of Great Price"
(then in manuscript)
considered the standard works
and Covenants,
and of the
that are
?the
four books
of the Church of Jesus Christ of the
In addition,
there were many
diction
schoolbooks,
Day
as
as
and
well
slates.
of
aries,
Harper's
Family
Library
encyclopedias,
at
a
had been given to them
M. VanCott,
farewell
179 volumes
by I.
on the
York.14
left
before
New
party
night
they
Latter
Saints.
Under
credits
Mormon
were
the
much
title
of the
colonists
material
"the
awakening
town's progress
with
brought
unloaded
objects
of Yerba
them
at that
on
that day
Buena"
one
historian
to the
time
the
supplies
Not
the Brooklyn.1*
only
on the Yerba
Buena beach,
but those who did the unloading had, ingrained in themselves, habits
of industry and a talent for
and
their homes. The
establishing
adorning
or more,
first night many
found shelter in tents, and for amonth
guards
a
never
but
lookout
for
the
attack;
enemy
kept
sharp
possible
appeared
newcomers
and was soon
in the stress of
food,
forgotten
by the
finding
in
and
in
work
that
would
them
shelter,
pay off
building
adequate
help
to California.
for transportation
they had incurred
men were
sent
to
Marin
with
axes, whip
twenty
example,
County
as
the
for
saws, and Spanish oxen, to haul out redwood
Brooklyn's
cargo
return
trip.16
In an attempt to find an answer to the
often asked,
question
namely,
to
the Brooklyn
what
her
after
the
1846
voyage,
present
happened
the
indebtedness
For
on California
Mr. John
the
Lyman,
specialist
shipping,
on
inWashington,
D. C, who
supplied the information
to
the ship's dimensions,
earlier.
Mr.
mentioned
etc.,
According
Lyman,
inNovember,
1839, the Brooklyn was owned atNew York by Abel W.
and her captain, Edward
Richardson,
Richardson;
Stephen C. Burdett,
owners
to
but by January
her
been
had
Edward
Richard
1849
changed
son and Francis
both
of
New
York
with
Burritt,
City,
Joseph M.
as master.
Richardson
She loaded at New
York
for San Francisco
via
at the end of 1849,
Panama
A.
G.
&
Benson
and
Co.
being freighted
by
In March
E. Richardson.
the sole owner.
1852, Francis Burritt became
The next month
he sold her to Marshall
O. Roberts,
and
Law,
George
writer
consulted
at the Archives
Bowes
Line
R. Mcllwaine,
which
provided
trustees, who
represented
the New
York-to-Panama
the United
service
States Mail
connecting
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the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. between Panama and San Fran
with
on the Brooklyn's
quote Mr. Lyman
history:
directly
She was registered on 10April 1852 atNew York, and this document is not to be
found at the Archives.
(Normally, whenever a ship is reregistered, sold foreign,
or wrecked, her document is cancelled and sent to
the
However,
Washington.)
a
was
to
of
indicates
that
made
summary
report
registers
Washington
by the
or
6
Collector atNew York early inAugust
is
either
date
4
1856; (the
August).
cisco. To
can
This
only
mean
that
the
was
Brooklyn
eigners between April 1852 and August
be determined as to her fate.17
wrecked,
scrapped,
or
1856; but at this time nothing
sold
to
for
further can
SOME DETAILS OF THE VOYAGE
York
According
deck to
howl
of
sea and
manner
Laura
a few
to the Brooklyn's
1846 voyage:
days after leaving
a great storm. All on board were
she encountered
sea-sick.
to one
more
ones
to the
the
resolute
eye-witness,
"struggled
to hear the dismal
behold
the sublime
the
of
scene,
grandeur
...
the winds,
in the
and to see the
ship
dipping
troughs of the
then tossed on the
billow."
On
the
deck, all
passenger
highest
return
To
New
of household
Goodwin
was
were
into each other. "Sister
furnishings
crashing
thrown
from a ladder and
lay critically
injured.
Old Brother Ensign and his daughter Eliza were dead. Itwas only by
that the Lord
in His
holds the waters
hand that we
could
realizing
have faith to be delivered
condition."18
from our perilous
coast of the
As they neared
the treacherous
Verde
Islands,
Cape
Samuel Brannan
them to "Sing! Sing all!" And, with
"The
adjured
a Fire is
to Cali
Are
and
"We
Like
of
God
Burning,"
Going
Spirit
and the roar of the
fornia," the Saints sang down the howl of the winds
waves.
went
to pre
below
having given up hope,
Captain Richardson,
was
worst.
to
his
for
the
He
find
them
astonished
pare
passengers
sing
a
the wind
died
grave. Suddenly
ing, singing all, in the face of watery
to a
sun came out, and, in thanks for their deliverance,
the
breeze;
sailing
the voyagers
knelt in prayer.19
During the storm, Silas Aldrich had died, aswell as a child of John
two children
and
K. Winner's
of John R. Robbins,
Fowler,
George
more
child. These
the
all
the
Saints'
tragedies heightened
apprehension
still awaiting
them in the rounding
of the dangers
of Cape Horn.
In crossing
the equator,
calm for two or three
they experienced
days.
children
the deck, attending
The
school,
thronged
jumping rope, and
in other amusements.
engaging
as low as 36
which
degrees,
on deck fell
day the thermometer
to their
attributed
Richardson
Captain
One
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near an
passing
iceberg.
was
Horn
Cape
at last rounded;
beyond,
oceans came in for
every
the two
seemed
fact,
special
propitious?in
a
was
the Atlantic,
the Brooklyn
While
baby,
traversing
recognition.
born to Sarah Sloat Burr, was given the name of John Atlantic
Burr;
thing
the wife
during the rounding of Cape Horn,
birth
Robbins.
When
was
baby girl, who
Two more children
to a
of John Robbins gave
christened
thereupon
died and were
the stock of fresh food was
gone,
buried
scurvy
Pacific
Georgianna
at sea.20
began
to take
its toll.
were becom
Supplies ofwater and of fuel (needed for the cook stoves)
ing exhausted.
Laura
the
Goodwin,
accident
requesting that she be buried on land.Owing
victim,
had
died
after
to a heavy gale from the
was unable to land at
but
south, Captain Richardson
Valparaiso,
by the
Robin
time they came abreast of the Island of Juan Fernandez
(Defoe's
an abundance
son Crusoe
found
Isle) a landing was possible. Here
they
and figs?the
fruit being
of food?goats,
fresh
pigs, hares,
peaches
wood
and
the scurvy; and there was
invaluable
in combatting
of
plenty
water.
two families,
because
the island had been deserted
for
Except
found them eager to help
of an earthquake. The Brooklyn's
passengers
were
native
desired and at
in loading the ship with whatever
products
at Juan Fernandez
Island
also made
The
low
stop
exceedingly
prices.
it possible to fulfill Laura Goodwin's wish to be buried on land. The
merciful
their
of God
hand
was
at
now
where
landing
Valparaiso,
taken all the funds they
On May
9th, the company
have
to the Sandwich
all the way
Brannan's
method
and
aboard,
seen
only
had.21
in the wind
ameager
that had
prevented
supply of food would
and had clear
left Juan Fernandez
sailing
Islands. But trouble had been
brewing
it had
of stopping
it worse.
only made
was
center
with
the
widow
children,
grown
Lucy Eagar,
of some talk about polygamy?a
subject forbidden
by Brannan. Two
men were
in Lucy. One was already married,
but he spoke
interested
Brannan
excommunicated
her his second wife. Whereupon
of making
several men and also Lucy Eagar. He had to report it to the presidency
so he gave as his excuse that their conduct
at the Saints'
headquarters;
This
stirred up a
and licentious."
had been "wicked
sharp reaction
to take
and
determined
and
interested
the
others,
among
they
parties
to court upon their arrival at their destination. When
the case
Brannan
came to trial, the
for Brannan.22
jury found
at the town's first American
is said to have officiated
Elder Brannan
? Lizzie
to urge his flock
to Basil Hall.23 He continued
Winner
wedding
an attractive
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to hold
strictly
led astray
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to the
for meetings,
regulation
the ways
For
of the Gentiles.
and not
a time
let themselves
be
he was
the only
by
news
the first San Francisco
in
he
the
preacher
community;
published
a
Star
in
the
he
"first-doer"
was,
fact,
California
(Jan. 9, 1847);
paper,
as
of many
the town's first millionaire.
But there
things, such
becoming
were others
on the Brooklyn
likewise originators
who were
and
arriving
makers
of fortunes.
NOTES ON SOME OF THE PASSENGERS
a
in the Mormon
"Seventy"
and
made
farmer,
town-planner,
John Horner,
blacksmith,
a
Church,
wheelwright,
in the southern
history
part of Alameda County by erecting the first American home in the
son is
to have been the first
child
county.24 His
Anglo-Saxon
reported
first
in
built
the
born
California.
schoolhouse,
John Horner
county's
which was also used as a church for
and
he was the
years,
twenty-three
to hold
first non-Catholic
methods
church
of communication?on
services
(including the building of bridges) ?and
dries,
he was
a
pioneer.
He
In
in the county.
improving
roads
and
Bay
along
San Francisco
also donated
in the establishment of laun
ground
for
a
grave
yard.
spent his money freely to advance his religion, though he did
Horner
not go to Utah.
With
the colony
on the Brooklyn
were
also
Isaac Robbins
and his
brothers John Roger (father of Georgianna Pacific Robbins) and
Charles.25 A ship coming into San Francisco Bay from Sydney had on
board
started
a horse which
the first
the Robbinses
express
business
with
it and a cart
purchased;
they
Like Brannan,
in San Francisco.
John
R. Robbins thought that Brigham Young might be persuaded to build
at the gateway
his Zion-metropolis
the Sheraton-Palace
up land where
to the Pacific.
Hotel
now
took
John therefore
later became
stands. He
of two girls. Their Brooklyn-bom
sister, Georgianna
Pacific,
in the musical
life of early Salt Lake City. John R.
attained prominence
across
made
several trips from his farm inNew
Jersey, back and forth
in
in
Utah
Under
date
and settled
the continent,
of July 6, 1854,
1853.
the Deseret News
C.
Robbins,
Kinkead,
J. Need
says: "John Roger
the father
have arrived in our city in advance
and L. Stewart
of their trains
are now on the road
dollars which
of goods to the value of one million
to this Market
and will soon begin to arrive."
as a
to work
in San Francisco
remained
Burtis Robbins
Charles
ham
out the
to Samuel Brannan,
and assisted in getting
apprentice
printer's
on
Star. He also mined
Mormon
for gold
first number of the California
The Ship Brooklyn
Island.
New
a resident
1853 he had become
Jersey via the Isthmus of Panama.26
By
237
of Utah,
after
returning
to
The family ofWilliam Evans learned to speak Spanish fluently while
living among the Spanish residents of San Francisco. William
purchased
a
land on the corner of Market
Street and Van Ness Avenue,
piece of
on the west
and established what
has been called the first tailor
shop
a mecca
coast of America.
The Evans
home became
for the mission
died in 1851, leaving his widow Hannah
aries of their church.William
and five
children.
Hannah
carried
on her husband's
business
until,
in
to Utah.27
her
1856, she moved
family
the
other
Brooklyn
Among
were
John Joyce, a carpenter,
was
In
A.,
Boston, Mrs.
daughters.
Joyce
to
called "the Mormon
the
indifferent
Strangers,
Nightingale."
Gospel,
us
to
her
Hall
and
would
hear
"Let
say,
go
Boylston
sing."28 Many
as one
that she sang the newly-restored
After
hymns
thought
inspired.
to San Francisco
she was able to buy a melodeon,
the
first in
coming
his wife
Caroline
San Francisco,
supercargo
on
and
passengers
two
to the coast in 1848
by Washington
brought
the American
brig Sabine.29 According
daughter, her father prospered in the growing
Holbrook,
to
Joyce's
community, but his
him and his religious
he abandoned
coming between
principles,
his heavy drinking,
this caused a
the latter. Combined
with
separation
to Col.
she was married
him and Mrs.
between
Joyce.
Subsequently
Alden A. M. Jackson.
wealth
this account,
the writer
interviewed
While
John Eagar's
preparing
are
citizens
who
and
in
descendants,
thought-of
highly
loyal workers
state that
have searched
all
the Mormon
Church. They
available
they
was
to learn
his mother,
records
excommunicated
Lucy Eagar,
why
her except Samuel Brannan's. As
and have found no complaint
against
was in
see it,Mrs.
out of the church,
Eagar's great mistake
staying
they
case
even
to
her
Brannan.
lost
she
She
managed
support
though
against
a
to
town
a small
in
addition
lot, by keeping
herself, however,
securing
to
store in San Francisco
in 1846. In 1847 she moved
where
Monterey,
was
one
Brannan's
school.30
of
her daughter
Star
John
California
taught
owner
a
her other son, Thomas,
while
of
San
gold miner,
printers,
a
was
East
of
and
lumberman
member
Francisco
the
of
Oakland,
lot,
California
legislature
in the
1860's.31
William
Brooklyn
passenger
in California,"
cences, "Mormons
on
tant source of information
whose
reminis
manuscript
"an
calls
Bancroft
1884,
impor
was
a mason
its
and
by craft
topic,"
Glover,
dated
California Historical
238
builder.32 He went
to the mines
Society Quarterly
in 1848, did well,
as a citizen
lots and took up his
responsibilities
D. M. Howard,
W.
A. Leidesdorff,
with W.
of Brannan's
and
first
editor
lawyer
Kentucky
in 1847
by serving, along
and Elbert P. Jones
(a
on
coun
town
the
Star),
and also on the school committee.33
cil or ayuntamiento,
to further
in the new
In efforts
education
community,
worked
Samuel
along with
to
and later removed
living in San Francisco he invested in town
Farmington, Utah. While
whose
Glover
of view was
breadth
shown
Brannan,
that
it
"eschew
would
with
in the prospectus
for his newspaper;
viz.,
to
the
caution
of sec
the greatest
every thing that tends
propagation
to his views
in the Star's
tarian dogmas." Brannan gave weight
by urging
columns the necessity of getting the forty children he had counted off
the streets
chosen
scholars
directed
and
a schoolhouse;
into
as a member
and,
of a committee
the community
for
the purpose,
canvassing
by personally
to act as teachers.34 Meanwhile,
William
Glover's
efforts were
of a suitable schoolhouse.35
toward the erection
for
was
But San Francisco
to establish
nor did Brannan's
mon
Church;
the San Joaquin
meet
Valley
to be the new
not destined
with
attempt
success.
Zion
Instead, when
his party struggled over the Sierra (taking with
for the Mor
it at New
in
Hope
Brannan
and
them copies of the
in
Star as persuasive
evidence)
1847,to meet Brigham
April
at
that it was fruitless
he
last
realized
the
of
continent,
Young midway
to them
had made
their
to argue.
and
his
council
minds;
up
Young
nor
the Valley
of the San Joaquin
of San Francisco
the Peninsula
neither
California
offered a site for the blossoming of Zion that could compare with
Valley
the
of Salt Lake.36
NOTES
i. Sacramento Daily
of
Sept. n, 1866, p. 6; H. H. Bancroft, History
California (San Francisco, 1886-90), V, 546, including notes 34 and 35;Theodore
H. Hittell, History
of California, II (San Francisco, 1897), 593-95.
2. Soule et al., Annals of San Francisco
(New York, 1855), pp. 748-53, with
portrait;
3. John
Bancroft,
Lyman,
op.
Union,
cit.,
letter
researches at the National
II, 728.
of Dec.
Archives
19,
1957,
to
present
writer,
on early California
communicating
shipping.
his
The Ship Brooklyn
Bailey, Sam Brannan and the California Mormons
4. Paul Dayton
1943),
geles,
26; Bancroft,
p.
239
cit., V,
op
545;
et al, op.
Soule
cit.,
(Los An
749.
p.
5. History of the [Mormon] Church (Salt Lake City, 1932), VI, 612; VII, 177.
6. Ibid., VII, 589-91; cf. Bancroft, op. cit., V, 547, 548 (note 36).
Glover, "Mormons in California," dated 1884 (manuscript, Ban
7.William
croft Library); recently (1954) published in book form by Glen Dawson, Los
to the Brooklyn inHonolulu
harbor on July 3,
Angeles. Stockton paid his visit
1846.
8. Bancroft,
cit., V,
op.
469-70;
10. Bancroft,
cit., V,
op.
Daily
cit.,
of theWest
1 above;
note
Union,
14. lbid.,p. 545 (note 33).
15. John P. Young, Journalism
17.
V,
John
Soule
576;
op.
op.
cit.,
scarlet
with
stomach,
the
ages
op.
Days"
of San
cit.,
Francisco
24. Annaleone
Church,
Patton,
each
composed
25. Carter,
26.
Ibid.,
op.
pp.
to
1958,
See
750-51;
pp.
cit., VII,
also
Bancroft,
present
writer;
Bancroft,
op.
cit.,
sore
Carter,
throat,
op.
and
dropsy
cit., VII,
of
the
400.
H.
John
(San
Francisco,
Oakland
of
cit., V,
549
(note
one
1886),
of
the
. . .
Reminiscences
Brown,
Tribune,
of
op.
37 cites
Bran
"The
Early
20,
1950. A
Star, IX, 307); 552 (note 42).
778;
a member
indicates
"Seventy"
4.
1915)^.
549.
cit., V,
773; V,
Ill,
Ibid.,
(San Francisco,
551.
cankered
consumption,
of the victims.
nan's letter in the Liverpool Millenial
23.
of
op. cit., IV, 431, 669-70; name
July 1, 1846, pp. 101-102, gives causes of deaths as
Friend,
et al., op.
Soule
7,
conditions
32.
p.
fever,
21. Bancroft,
22.
cit., V,
ruinous
of Utah
cit.
20. The Honolulu
diarrhea,
op.
cit.; Bancroft,
op.
19. Bailey,
Utah
1884, Farmington,
respecting
in California
letter
of
Lyman,
April
et al., op. cit.,
p. 749.
18. Glover,
dated
(Salt Lake City: Daughters
see Bancroft,
building in Yerba Buena in 1844,
to
San
Francisco, V, 645 (note).
changed
13. JMi., II, 738;V, 545.
16. Glover,
29.
p.
of Brooklyn,
550.
11. Kate Carter, Heart Throbs
Pioneers, 1945), VII, 395.
12. Sacramento
op.
Bailey,
9. John Eagar, narrative of voyage
(manuscript, Bancroft Library ).
pp. 28-29.
"Knave"
section,
missionary
agencies
of
Aug.
of
the Mormon
70 elders.
400.
399-400.
27. Ibid., p. 401; also interviews by present writer with Mrs. Hilda Perkins,
and Hannah Evans; Bancroft, op. cit., II, 795.
granddaughter ofWilliam
28. Augusta Joyce Crocheron, Representative Women
of Deseret
(Salt Lake
City,
1884),
p.
105; Carter,
op.
cit.,
p.
395.
California Historical
240
onWashington
30. Ibid., II, 787-88.
31. Ibid.
29. Information
Society Quarterly
Holbrook
in Bancroft,
op. cit., Ill, 786.
32. /Z?*W.,
Ill, 758.
33. 1bid., V, 648 (note).
34.
Soule
et al., op.
cit.,
p.
174. See
also
Bancroft,
op.
cit., V,
656
(note).
35. Ibid.
36. History
and
his
of
subsequent
the Church,
reinstatement,
op.
cit., VII,
see
ibid.,
591. For
pp.
Brannan's
395,418.
excommunication
William
Snow
by
Sierra,
painting
Hahn.
the
in
a
Presented
to
the
Mrs.
by
Society
Eric
Gerson
memory
in
of
her
father,
Jacob
Goldberg.
The
Ship Brooklyn,
Courtesy
from
The
a
painting
Improvement
( Seepage
z 2 p)
by Arnold
Era.
Friberg.