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The Voyage of the
Hartley (March 1849)
Excerpts from Mormon
Immigration Index, Family Resource File
Bk. A, p. 1. Customs List Customs Passenger, #234, p. 3:
The Winmill Family then of Watford Station, Hartfordshire,
emigrated 5 March 1849 from Liverpool, England and
arriving at the port of new Orleans, Louisiana on 28
April, 1949:
WINMILL, Jane <1795> Age:
54
WINMILL, William <1796> Age: 53
Occ: Farmer
WINMILL, Elizabeth <1819> Age:
30
WINMILL, Hannah <1821> Age:
28
WINMILL, Richard <1841> Age:
8
A Compilation of General Voyage Notes from the voyage of
the Hartley leaving 5 March 1849 from Liverpool, England
and arriving at the port of new Orleans, Louisiana on 28
April, 1949. Among the passengers were William and Jane
Winmill and their children Elizabeth, Hannah and Richard.
A Compilation of General Voyage Notes
"EMIGRATION. . . . The ship Hartley also cleared from this
port for New Orleans a few days since, having on board
over 220 souls. About one-third of these were Welsh, the
balance English and Scotch -- all Saints -- under the
presidency of Elder William Hulme of Manchester. Five
large ships have sailed form this port loaded with Saints
during the last four or five weeks. Thus the great work
of the gathering rolls on, fulfilling the great and
glorious predictions contained in the Book of Mormon,
Bible, and other revalations. Hasten thy work, O Lord,
that Zion may speedily become a strong nation! . . ."
MS, 11:5 (March 1, 1849), p.71
"FORTY-FIRST COMPANY -- Hartley, 220 souls. The ship
Hartley sailed from Liverpool, bound for New Orleans,
March 5th, 1849, with two hundred and twenty souls on
board. About one-third of these were Welsh, the balance
English and Scotch -- all Saints, under the presidency of
Elder William Hulme of Manchester. This was the fifth
large ship which sailed from Liverpool, with Saints,
within five weeks. According to the report of Elder Hulme
the voyage of this company was more like a pleasure
excursion than a long journey, as the weather was very
pleasant, and the sea and wind gentle, during nearly the
entire voyage. On the thirty-fifth day after setting sail
from the river Mersey, the Hartley reached the great
Bahama Banks, where she was obliged to cruise or stand at
anchor six days among the islands, either on account of
calms or contrary winds. From that point to New Orleans
the voyage was prosperous. One death and one birth
occurred on the voyage, to-wit: Sister Hall, from
Liverpool was delivered of a fine boy, April 15th; and
Brother T. Slinger's youngest daughter (Elizabeth) died of
croup, April 19th; she was placed in a tin coffin, made of
tea canisters, which was then inclosed in a wood coffin,
so that the remains could be taken to New Orleans for
internment. The captain and crew were very kind to the
emigrants during the entire voyage; several of the sailors
were converted, and four of them baptized by Elder Hulme,
on the twenty-ninth of April, at New Orleans; their names
were, John Everett, aged twenty-seven; Alfred Percy,
twenty-one; George Percy, twenty-eight, and David Wilson
twenty-three.
April 28th, 1849, the Hartley arrived at New Orleans, and
Elder Lucius N. Scovil was there to receive them. About
four o'clock in the evening, the emigrants were
comfortably berthed at No. 17 on the Levee.
On the thirtieth, the company secured their clearance
papers, and prepared to set off for St. Louis in an
American steamboat the next day -- (Millennial Star,
Volume XI, Page 185.) Elder Scovil accompanied the
immigrants up the river. (Millennial Star, Volume XI,
Pages 71, 185.)"
Cont., 13:5 (Mar. 1892), p.235
"Mon. 5. [Mar 1849] -- The ship Hartley sailed from
Liverpool, England, with 220 Saints bound for G. [Great]
S. [Salt] L. [Lake] Valley, under the direction of
W.[William] Hulme. It arrived at New Orleans April 28th."
CC, p.37
Letter
from William Hulme -
April 28, 1849
On board the Hartley, New Orleans, April 28, 1849.
Dear Brother O. [Orson] Pratt,--With heartfelt gratitude
to our Father in Heaven, I take the earliest opportunity
to inform you that we have this day safely arrived at New
Orleans in good health and vivid spirits.
Our voyage has been more like a
pleasure excursion, than a long journey; for the weather
has been so very pleasant, the sea and wind so gentle,
that we have not seen the first mountain-wave yet; our
sails have been reefed on the approach of squalls, but
there has not been more than one or two rough days during
the voyage.
We passed the great Bahama Banks on the 35th day of our
set in sail from the River Mersey; and we were obliged to
cruise, or stand at anchor six days among the Islands,
either on account of calms or contrary winds.
Our voyage since that time has been prosperous.
Sister Hall from Liverpool, was delivered of a fine boy
on April 15th, at half-past seven in the morning.
Brother T. Slinger's youngest daughter (Elizabeth) died
of the croup, April 19. She was placed in a tin coffin
(which we made of the tea canisters) and then placed in a
wood coffin, so that we have the corpse on board now. I
expect we shall inter her at New Orleans. [p.185]
The captain and crew were very kind to us from
first to last, several of the sailors have embraced the
truth, and are waiting to be baptized.
About four o'clock this evening we were
comfortably berthed at No 17 on the levee.
April 29th, - I have this evening baptized
four of the sailors, whose names are as follows: - John
Everett, aged 27; Alfred Percy, 21; George Percy, 28; and
Davis Wilson, 23; George intends to go to the Bluffs with
us.
April 30, - We have this day got our
clearance, and expect to set off in the American steamship
tomorrow. Elder Scovil was waiting for us when we
arrived, and intends to go with us up the river.
Accept the love and esteem of your humble brother,
William Hulme
Dear Brother Pratt, –I again address you for the purpose
of showing you that we appreciate wour captins conduct.
We have drawn up a few lines for publication as follows:--
April 30th, 1849.
To Captain Stephen Cammet, of the Hartley.
Sir, - At the termination of a voyage form
Liverpool to New Orleans, which has been truly
satisfactory to us, we feel it our duty to manifest our
gratitude to you by this public acknowledgment for the
kind, humane, and generous treatment, and the watchful
care for our safety, which you have evinced during our
passage. We, therefore, beg you will accept the warmest
thanks of yours, on behalf of the passengers,
William Hulme, John Shield, Robert Jones,
J.W. Hickey, William Ginn. [p.186]
BIB: Hulme, William. [Letter], Latter-day Saints'
Millennial Star 11:12, (June 15, 1849), pp. 185-86. (HDL)
Diary of William Knox
February we took our lodgings in the ship
Hartley, but very cold for my wife and children. Allowed
not light, no fire, while in the best, it was
uncomfortable besides expensive to find our [-] meet until
that we got to see we were in this state until we [-] of
March neither lights nor fire aboard. My wife so lately
confined she suffered much much [SIC] besides the
confusing in the vessel getting her cargo into the hold.
There was thirteen different nations of people on board
above [-] passengers; Welsh, Scotch, Irish, English
Saints. The ship about 400 & 50 tons burden. We left the
docks on the 4 of March. Brought up in the river Mersey,
the wind contrary. On the 9 of March, we set sail at 7
o'clock a.m. A beautiful morning, the wind is in our
favor, but while we were in the dock a Welsh sister was
delivered of a female child. Three Irishmen had
themselves stowed away, but expecting that the ship was at
sea made themselves known. . . . The wind in our favor.
We begin to rejoice. We lost sight of the land.
On the 12 of March with a fine wind, but the
sun amongst the passengers; the ripple rolling throng with
a fair wind, the sea sickness to a great pitch. . . the
name of the president [was] William Kume [Hulme]. The
Saints were all divided into small branches. My branch
consisted of 15 members to see all kept in order. . . . a
good captain, agreeable sailors. I preached on deck.
April 6th. This morning a conference meeting
is held on the deck of the ship Hartley sailing in
Latitude 22 & 30 N., Longitude 66 or W. We assembled at
half past 10 o'clock and represented the small Branches.
General in good standing, good health. General P
represented my little flock 15 in number in all good
standing. Good health except three scattered member
President Hume asked Brother Knox could have scattered
members on board of a ship. I explained this history that
three of my flock when we are at our duty they are as far
as they can get for salt water. This caused a laugh. We
were pretty comfortable. One child died. The king cough
got amongst the children. My daughter, Elisabeth, my
first born, catches [it].
April 11th. Fine whether I preached on the
decks of the Hartley
April the 15 . Sister Hall was delivered of a
man child, the wind against us. My daughter, Dorothy, got
the king cough. We arrived at the mouth of the
Mississippi on the 26 of April.
On the 28 of April at
New Orleans, Elder [Lucius] Scovil come on board gave us
counsel how to how to [SIC] see to persons health &
engaged the steam boat Mameluke.
We left New Orleans on the 3 of May for Saint
Louis. We we [SIC] had no sooner going [-] of that boat,
then the Saints sickened and in a few hours 5 & 6 in a
day, nothing but death to them that get sick. Me daughter
Elizabeth fell a victim, died on the 9 of May. Buried in
a grave five. arrived at Saint Louis.
Arrived at St. Louis May the 12, died above
thirty saints between New Orleans and Saint Louis. . . .
p. 12
. . . June the 9 this morning is very
peasant. Elder Milo Andrus called us together and gave us
our farewell instruction that if we would not profane the
name of Jehovah our God and be united, neither the Indian
nor the Gentiles that have threatened our destruction had
power to harm us and we should go through as well or
better than any company that ever crossed the Plains for
the most had paid their tithing. . . [p. 9]
. . . Monday the 3 we got into the City [Salt
Lake] we went with Bro. Selcock into the Sixth Ward. . . .
[p. 28]
BIB: Knox, William. Diary and Journal, Vol. 3,
(Diary, 1849-1856), p. 12; (Journal 1855-1856),pp. 9, 28.
(HDA)
Autobiography of John Mclaws
. . . Left Scotland for Salt Lake City in
March 1849 in the ship Hartley. In sailing from New
Orleans to St. Louis the cholera broke out. Buried about
50 of the Saints. I was very bad with it, but through the
blessing of the Lord, recovered. When I landed in St.
Louis I was kindly received by Daniel [UNCLEAR, POSSIBLY
Lutherland] & wife. Stayed in St. Louis about 6 weeks
then went up to New Orleans 10 miles above St. Joseph,
Missouri. Went to Barling Hemp along with Brother
Shields. In the spring went to St. Joseph & tended brick
mason’s. In the fall started plastering with H. Cuerdon.
[p.1] In the fall my intended wife Joanna Ross came up
from St. Louis. We were promised before I left home. She
left Scotland in the fall of 49. When she came up, we
bought a place from John Hill at Honey Creek, Council
Bluffs & was married by John Shields, 5 Dec. 1850. In the
spring, I left my wife to come on with her parents & drove
team (5 yoke of cattle) for Holliday Warner for Salt Lake
City. Arrived in Salt Lake on 23rd Aug. 1857. . . . [p.2]
BIB: Mclaws, John [Autobiography] (MS 12682) pp. 1-2.
(HDA)
Reminiscences of John Ormond
. . . On Feb. 14th 1849 I took a steamer at
Milford for Liverpool, with 500 Saints under Dan Jones.
On March 9th we set sail from Liverpool on the
ship Hartley with 258 Saints. We held meetings on the
ship and four of the sailors joined the church. We
reached New Orleans, where we stayed five days and took
steamer for St. Louis. Cholera broke out among us and we
had a terrible time, during eight days we buried thirty
seven, and on arrival at St. Louis, we sent twenty more to
the hospital. We took a boat at St. Louis up the Missouri
River to Savannah just above St. Joseph, on this voyage we
buried twenty more, making seventy seven from New [p.59]
Orleans. We landed at Savannah May 10th 1849. We had the
cholera in the family, and lost two of my sisters, father
and one other sister had it, but through the blessings of
the Lord they recovered. While at Savannah I went hunting
and killed 13 squirrels, 11 rabbits and a ground hog so
the company had some fresh meat. Those who could get
teams set out for Council Bluffs, but as we had no money
we stayed at Savannah. While there we got acquainted with
Brother Crookston, and Welsh, and their families. We all
got work and by the first of Nov. were ready to continue
our journey to Council Bluffs. We found at the Bluffs
quite a lot of Saints and we managed to get cabin to live
in and later built one of our own. We had a hard time
that winter as there was little or no work to be had. In
March people came in large numbers to go to California,
and we began to sell them pies, and cakes etc., and we
made money very fast while the emigrants were there. That
summer and winter I worked at sawing lumber with a whip
saw, with Thomas Taylor. We did all kinds of odd jobs and
earned considerable money so that in the spring of 1851 we
were ready to start for Utah.
I worked for David Wilkin who had eight wagons
and 100 head of young stock, mostly heifers, many of those
were later put under yoke as the oxen gave out. When we
got in the buffalo country, our oxen became wild and would
run off with the buffalo in spite of all we could do. At
one time we had a stampede and broke down three wagons.
The buffalo were very [p.60] numerous and at one place we
passed a herd extending for thirty miles or more. We had
several Indian scares but had no serious trouble. When
within two days of Salt Lake our grub gave out and I was
sent ahead on horseback to get some. I went into town and
got some beef, potatoes, and flour and returned and found
the company in Emigration Canyon. We reached the city
next day, November 18th 1851. . . . [p.61]
BIB: Ormond, John, [Reminiscences], "Utah Pioneer
Biographies," vol. 22, pp. 59-61. (FHL)
Autobiography of David D. Bowen
March 9th. Our ship the Hartley was hauled
out of the dock on to the river, and that afternoon the
Saint was organize by appointing Elder William Hume from
Manchester to be the President over the whole Saints, and
John Shields and Joseph Stringer for his counselors, and
John McClough Clark and Elder John Hughes to preside after
the Welch Saint and myself was appointed cook for all the
emigrants or passengers, because I was a sailor. All the
passengers doing their last business in Liverpool.
10th. We were towed out this morning by a
steam boat to the open sea and set sail a little after
dinner with the wind from the east and fair for us. Very
few of the passengers cared anything about their dinners
today, for they all with very few exceptions commence to
get a little seasick, and by supper time, for indeed it
was nothing but the time, everyone seem to be satisfied
since their last supper. Instead of making their suppers
they all went to their beds. Our ship was running all
night with a stuff breeze of fair wind and rocking very
much as al vessels are when running before the wind much
as all vessels are when running before the wind with a
strong breeze. All the passengers was very sick all
night. No one could take care of themself. I had to be
up all night attending and taking care of the sick. We
were running down St. George or Irish Channel and sailed
along for many days with fair winds, passing by the Cape
Clear the southern extremity of Ireland and the Scilly
[POSSIBLY Scilla] Isle, with our faces towards the great
Atlantic Ocean. In a few days most of the Saints was
getting over their seasickness and begin to call for
something to eat. The weather was clear and the
pleasant. The ladies commence washing and cleaning
themself and walking about the decks. My calling now
become brisk and lively for everybody was calling for
their breakfast, dinners, and suppers. I soon found that
I had a very disagreeable situation. We sailed along,
sometime the wind was fair and sometime foul, and on the
29th of April we landed in the New Orleans after a passage
of seven weeks and three days. We had one death and 2
births at sea, no accident. When we arrived at New
Orleans I was expecting my pay for my hard labor which was
promise to me when Orson Pratt appointed me as a cook for
the Saints. I was promise one shilling from every
passenger, but suffice it to say, that I never had a
single shilling with no one, but seventy five cents with
Cidwalinder, [CADWALLADER IS LAST NAME] Owens [Owins] and
twenty five cents with D. Peters. That was all the
remuneration I had for my hard labor across the sea, when
I could when I was in Liverpool ship on board a vessel and
getting two pound ten shilling per month and a good deal
better situation, but listen to the counsel of Orson Pratt
and Dan Jones I had to work hard for nothing, for Dan
Jones told Pratt about me before he left. William Hume
the President of the Saints was put in jail in New Orleans
for trying to smuggle some goods belonging to T.D. Brown,
[p.20] which he had charge of, and John Hughes President
of the Welsh on board was drunk while we stayed in New
Orleans. In this way the Saints was left to themselves,
and my pay neglected. I never seen Hume no more. Our
passengers English, Scotch, and seventy-one Welsh and a
few Irish. We had some of the meanest people I ever seen.
We tarried at New Orleans two days, and on the first of
May, we went on board the steamer “Mameluck” under the
Presidency of Elder L [Lucus] N. Scovil for St. Louis,
and started for St. Louis May 2nd. While on the river,
the cholera broke out on board the steam boat and made a
tremendous havoc among the passengers. For every day
there was from three to six buried every day, and before
we got to St. Louis we had buried about sixty of the
passengers.
May 12th. We landed in St. Louis with many
sick on board. My wife was very sick two or three days
before we landed in St. Louis my mother-in-law was
attacked with the cholera very severely, that we where
oblige to send her to the hospital. I took her and my
wife to the hospital. They would not take my wife into
the same hospital as her mother for she had not got the
cholera. I left my mother-in-law in the Charity Hospital
with her youngest daughter (Rachel). My mother-in-law was
unconscious when she was put in. After leaving her there,
I took my wife to the City Hospital about three miles
further. I left her there with lot of strangers that she
never seen before and went back to the boat where my
children was and my father-in-law and his family was.
There I had to nurse my little babe, eight months old all
night without her mother. We had a very miserable night
of it. The next morning the 13th and also Sunday I
started for the Charity Hospital to see how my
mother-in-law was getting along. When I arrived there to
my astonishment she was dead and buried before I got
there. I did not see her at all and her little girl
Rachel was there like a little stranger. I then went to
the other hospital where my wife was. There I found her
very weak and feeble. She said that she had nothing to
take while she in there, but water, and she begged on me
to take her out from such a miserable place. I complied
with her desire. I took her out. I had to carry her on
my back most of the way from the hospital to the boat
through the City of St. Louis, for we had not yet move
from the boat. It was on Sunday. By the time I and my
wife reach the boat it was near dark and there was two of
my sister-in-law attacked by the cholera. Ann & Rachel
was very bad. I spend another miserable night with the
sick and with my own children, but Monday morning came.
[p. 21]
May 14th. Monday morning came and my
father-in-law went out to the country to seek for a place
to live at. He got to a place called Dry Hill six miles
from St. Louis where there was some coal mines, and a
branch of the church of the Latter day Saints. Among whom
was John Gibbs the presiding Elder, also Brothers Thomas
Green and William Stone, and good many others. They
treated him friendly. Green and Stone brought a team with
them to move us out to Dry Hill. We got out to the place
before dark and went in to Green’s house that night. We
where nine in number and three of them very sick, The
owner of the land by the name of a Mr. Garsaide give
orders to Mr. Green to drive us away from the premiss
because that he was afraid that we would bring the cholera
to the diggings. However, Green did not obey his orders
and there we stayed. Next day we bought a little log
cabin for fifteen dollar to live in, and all the family
got well except my wife. She was getting weaker and
weaker every day. Father-in-law and I commence working in
the coal pits. On the 18th a great fire broke out in one
of the boats at St. Louis and burnt 36 of the boats and
one third of the city to ashes. I went to St. Louis next
morning and such a sight I never before saw. The
handsomest part of the city all to ashes. The streets
full of ruins, a man could only walk through. My wife was
getting worse and worse until the night of the 22nd. When
she seemed to be a little better.
23rd. With day light this morning she was
very bad and about 4 o’clock she set on the box and leaned
her head back on the wall, she died in an instant without
uttering a word. Thus she departed this life on the
twenty-third day of May, 1849 at 4 o’clock in the morning
or with the break of day. She was 24 years, 3 months and
23 day old when she died on the Dry Hill. She was buried
in the county grave yard near Blue Ridge in the state of
Missouri, about six miles west of the city of St. Louis.
She left behind her two small children, a boy and a girl.
IN a few days I left the Dry Hill and went to work in a
brick yard in St. Louis with one Mr. Williams for 20
dollars per month and find myself, however, I did not stay
there only two weeks. Went to work to Blue Ridge to
another Mr. William Williams, a Welshman. As soon as my
wife died my little daughter was taken sick. She got
worse and worse until the 20 of June when she died in the
same house as her mother and was buried in the same
grave. I stayed on the Blue Ridge with Mr. Williams until
fall when I moved to Gravois to coal diggings. I left my
son Morgan with his grandfather at Dry Hill, but after a
while he moved to the Gravois. . . . [p.22] [NO SALT LAKE
CITY ARRIVAL ACCOUNT PROVIDED.]
BIB: Bowen, David D. Autobiography and diary, pp.
20-22. (HDA)
Mormon Immigration Index
Ship: Hartley
Date of Departure: 5 Mar 1849 Port
of Departure: Liverpool, England
LDS Immigrants: 220 Church
Leader: William Hulme
Date of Arrival: 28 Apr 1849 Port
of Arrival: New Orleans, Louisiana
Source(s): BMR, Book #1043, pp. 7-15 (FHL
#025,690); Customs #234 (FHL #200,161); Ronald D. Dennis,
The Call of Zion (Provo: Religious Studies Center, BYU,
1987), Appendix C
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