
Liverpool to Great Salt Lake
The 1851 Journal of Missionary George D. Watt
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- English
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Liverpool to Great Salt Lake
The 1851 Journal of Missionary George D. Watt
About this book
George Darling Watt was the first convert of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints baptized in the British Isles. He emigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. He returned to the British Isles in 1846 as a missionary, accompanied by his wife and young son. He remained there until 1851, when he led a group of emigrant converts to Salt Lake City, Utah. Watt recorded his journey from Liverpool to Chimney Rock in Pitman shorthand. Remarkably, his journal wasn't discovered until 2001—and is transcribed and appearing for the first time in this book. Watt's journal provides an important glimpse into the transatlantic nature of Latter-day Saint migration to Salt Lake City. In 1850 there were more Latter-day Saints in England than in the United States, but by 1890 more than eighty-five thousand converts had crossed the Atlantic and made their way to Salt Lake City. Watt's 1851 journal opens a window into those overseas, riverine, and overland journeys. His spirited accounts provide wide-ranging details about the births, marriages, deaths, Sunday sermons, interpersonal relations, weather, and food and water shortages of the journey, as well as the many logistical complexities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- George D. Watt’s Pitman Shorthand and the Process of Transcription
- 1. The Atlantic Ocean
- 2. The Rivers
- 3. The Trail
- 4. The End of the Trail
- 5. Sermons Delivered by Orson Pratt On Board the Ellen Maria
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Glossary of Nautical, Steamboat, and River Terms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About LaJean Purcell Carruth
- About Ronald G. Watt