. . . We took passage in the Windsor Castle a sailing vessel for New Orleans. We got on board the vessel in the River Mersey on the 17 of Feb. 1846 and cast anchor for 3 days, as there was no wind. At midnight on the 3 day, we had a head wind, which blew a gale, and we were tacking every 2 hours for 14 days and nights, before we got our of the Irish Sea. And we were 9 weeks before we got to New Orleans. While we were here in the steamboat my son John fell over-board and was drown in the Mississippi River. [NOTE IN LEFT HAND MARGIN STATES, John died about April 26, 1846] He was playing with other children and caught at a string that was falling overboard. We now went up the river to Montrose landing there [p.31] about April 26. While here we went over to Nauvoo, we were here about 2 weeks fitting out a team for the west. The time that we stopped at Montrose, we visited the Nauvoo Temple and heard Amos Fielding. I bought a yoke of oxen paying 40 dollars for them.

I had bought a light wagon at St. Louis. We started for the west. . .[p.32]

. . . We arrived in the Valley Oct. 1 1847 and camped by the old ford by a spring. They would give out the city lots and farming lands in the fall when all the members of the church were together. . . . [p.42]

BIB: Harker, Joseph. Personal record and journal (Ms 9131), pp. 31-32, 42. (CHL)
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