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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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: George D. Watt—Out of Obscurity and into the Light
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Latter-day Saint Gathering
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: Style Guide for Transcriptions from Pitman Shorthand
Appendix 2: Third Company of Ten of the John Brown Company
Appendix 3: George D. Watt's Wives and Children
Appendix 4: Two Reminiscent Accounts from Early Latter-day Saint Missionaries to England
Appendix 5: Yearly Numbers of People Traveling the Overland Trails
Glossary of Nautical, Steamboat, and River Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
