"DEPARTURE OF THE CHIMBORAZO. -- The ship Chimborazo, Captain Vesper, cleared on the 13th instant, with 432 souls on board, for the port of Philadelphia, of which number about 200 are passengers hence to Utah by the P. [Perpetual] E. [Emigration] Fund.
Elder Edward Stevenson, late president of the Gilbraltar Mission, is president of the company, which consists of about 70 souls from the Channel Islands, in company with Elders A. L. Lamoreaux, late president of the French Mission; about 200 from the Principality, in company with Elder Thomas Jeremy, late counsellor to the presedency of the Church in Wales; and the remainder from the London, Kent, Essex, and Reading Conferences, in company with Elders Mills and Slack, late presidents of the Reading and Essex Conferences. As the evils of the world increase the joy of the Saints increases at the event of their deliverance, which they give free vent to by their songs of gladness, although fiends in human shape sometimes strive to afflict their souls by vexatious detentions, as did Pharaoh to prevent Israel from going to serve the Lord in the wilderness.
The kindness of Captain Vesper will doubtless contribute much to the comfort of the company. . . ."
MS, 17:17 (Apr. 28, 1855), p.267
"EMIGRATION. -- The ship Chimborazo arrived at Philadelphia on the 21st ultimo, with 432 Saints on board, under the Presidency of Elder Edward Stevenson. There was during the voyage one infant died, and another young child was injured by a fall, which was the cause of its death, One or two births. The passengers were all in good health and spirits; between two and three hundred went forward on the 27th; the others employment was mostly provided for. . . ."
MS, 17:25 (June 23, 1855), p.399
"EIGHTY-SIXTH COMPANY. -- Chimborazo 431 souls. The ship Chimborazo, Captain Vesper, cleared from the port at Liverpool on the seventeenth of April, 1855, with four hundred and thirty-one souls on board, bound for Philadelphia; one hundred and ninety-five of the passengers were P. [Perpetual] E. [Emigration] Fund emigrants. There were seventy Saints for the Channel Islands mission and about two hundred from Wales; the remainder were from the London, Kent, Essex and Reading Conferences. Elder Edward Stevenson, who had presided over the Gibraltar mission, was appointed president of the company, assisted by Andrew L. Lamoreaux, president of the French Mission, and Thomas E. Jeremy, who had acted as counselor in the presidency of the Church in Wales. After a pleasant and successful passage the Chimborazo arrived in the mouth of the Delaware River on the eighteenth of May. Two infants died on board, one of them through injuries sustained by an accidental fall from the hatchway; one child was born, three marriages were solemnzied and four baptisms took place on board; four more applied for baptism on the arrival at Philadelphia, where the ship cast anchor on the twenty-second of May.
Between two and three hundred of the emigrants continued the journey to St. Louis by way of Pittsburg, while the remainder found temporary employment in Philadelphia and vicinity. Those who continued to St. Louis where overtaken in Pittsburg by the emigrants who crossed in the Samuel Curling, and on board the excellence and commodious steamboat Amazon, under the presidency of Elder Edward Stevenson, the two companies, numbering nearly six hundred souls, proceeded down the rivers to St. Louis, where they arrived on Saturday night, June 2nd. Two days later on the fourth of June, about one hundred and forty passengers, including about eighty P. [Perpetual] E. [Emigration] Fund emigrants, sailed from St. Louis from Atchison on board the steamboat Ben Bolt, in charge of Elder Edward Stevenson. And on Friday, June 8th, about three hundred passengers, the majority being P. [Perpetual] E. [Emigration] Fund emigrants, sailed from the same place for Atchison, on board the Amazon, in charge of Elder Israel Barlow. About three hundred others of the emigrant who had crossed the Atlantic in the Chimborazo and Samuel Curling remained in St. Louis, awaiting orders from the P. [
Perpetual] E. [Emigration] Fund company agents in regard to their further progress. Nearly two hundred of them went into camp a short distance from the city in a fine open country and in a healthy location, where they lived in tents about two weeks, not knowing for some time whether they would be sent through to the Valley that season or not. When it was finally announced that they could embark, they were perfectly delighted, and went on board the steamer Ben Bolt, which sailed from St. Louis for Atchison on the nineteenth of June, under the presidency of Elder Francis St. George. (Millennial Star, Vol. XVII, pp.267, 397, 399, 459, 461, 490; Deseret News of August 8th, 1855)"
Cont., 13:12 (Oct. 1892), pp.546-47
"Tues. 17. [Apr. 1855] -- The ship Chimborazo sailed from Liverpool, England, with 431 Saints, including 70 from the Channel Islands, inder the direction of Edward Stevenson. The company arrived at Philadelphia May 21st."
CC, p.53
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