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Journal of David Moore: Family Info
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David Moore and Sarah Barker. I was born January 20, 1819 in the townships of Eardley, County of Ottawa, Province of Lower Canada. My father Dudley Moore was born in the state of New York, about three or four years before the Battle at Saratoga Springs, or about the 8th of August, 1773. He died the 17th of March, I852. My brothers and sisters names and ages are as follows:. Abigail Moore, Born Feb. 10, 1795, died Aug. 6, 1865, 70 years of age. Sarah Moore, Born Oct. 14, I799. There was another son of the...
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Journal of David Moore: First Settlement of Weber County
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First Settlement of Weber County. First Settlement of Weber County. Captain James Brown came into Weber County, bought the Goodyear ranch between Weber and Ogden rivers for the sum of . Packed his seed wheat on horses from California and other supplies from Fort Hall. That fall, 1848, some six or eight more families came in. The winter following was severe and hard on the stock. Captain Brown succeeded in raising a small crop in 1848. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Template images by andynwt.
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Journal of David Moore: Memories of Weber County
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Memories of Weber County. Memories of the Early History of. In February 1850, Lorin Farr came up from Salt Lake City and organized the first military company. Cyrus C. Canfield and Francillo Durfey first Lieutenant - in all rank and file thirty-five men, but several of this number left for California in the spring, reducing the company to about twenty all told. It was decided that I should go to Salt Lake City to see what Governor Young would do about our position. I arrived at Salt Lake City about 4...
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Journal of David Moore: Introduction
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The contents of this journal are compiled from several different journals or handwritten documents of David Moore. The first section is entitled simply, “Journal of David Moore”, followed by the "Abridged History of the Salmon River Mission.”. The last section is a compilation of three separate documents written by David Moore, and is called “Items of History.”. The "Journal of David Moore". The third part of the Journal are actual Journal entries beginning in the summer of 1848, on July 23, and ending w...
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Journal of David Moore: Salmon River Mission
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OF THE SALMON RIVER MISSION. Fort Limhi in 1900. April Conference of the Year 1855. John Simpson owned the ferry and gave us the use of his boat free to ferry over our wagons and ourselves, our Cattle had (to) swim over the River, this took most of the day. We camped at night a few rods above the ferry, during the early evening Enoch Reese's 60 for Carson's Valley came up and camped near by. Sunday Morning, May 20, 1855. The Company of missionaries were organized (sic) by,. 7 William S. Brundge. Left cam...
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Journal of David Moore: Mound Fort
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First Settlement of Mound Fort, 1848. The winter of l849 and 50 was long and severe, with deep snow. Several head of cattle and sheep died during the winter. Sometime during the spring, Lorin Farr was sent up from Salt Lake City to preside over the Saints settled here and in Ogden City. He located in Mound Fort near the –. A page is lost here). After Farr's fort was completed, the mi1itary was farther organized by selecting Francillo Durfey captain of Infantry, and David Moore captain of Cavalry. The...
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Journal of David Moore: Journal Entries
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Journal of David Moore. I will now transfer some notes that I took during the summer of 1848. 8211; Bradford W. Elliot (one of the Presidents of the 2. Quorum of Seventies, to which Quorum I was also a member) came to my house and stayed over night, conversed on religion and politics, said that he should vote the Democratic ticket. 8211; Labored in shop at making picture frames for Pitking. Was invited very strongly by G.C. Allender to join the Sons of Temperance, which I politely refused on the ...Finis...
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Journal of David Moore
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Allander, Edward T. Ames, Ira Jr. Angel, T.O. Babbit, Almon W. Barnard, Ezra J. Batchelor, William H. Browning, G.W. Brundage, William S. Canfield, Cyrus C. Chase, Charles A. Cummings, Benjamin F. Dana, Charles R. Dille, D.B. Eldredge, Horace S. Elliott, Bradford W. Foster, Robert D. Gainford, Mary See Bean. Grant, George R. Hancock, George W. Hill, George W. Hugo, Mr . Kimball, Heber C. Koen, Isabel (See Moore). Lithead, James,. McCormick, Elizabeth (See Moore). McGary, A.H. Montgomery, John N.
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Journal of David Moore: Autobiography
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Journal of David Moore. We continued on our journey occasionally selling off our things for articles of food for ourselves and Shelden and my horse (which I kept tied to my wagon at night wherever we camped, throughout the entire journey). There was some five or six inches of snow on the ground by this time, but in the course of two or three days I felt so strong that I traveled down to Justice Robinson's to see if my deed for my lot was made out and signed off according to Nickersons agreement, but it w...
