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History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
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History draft; handwriting of , John L. Smith, Jonathan Grimshaw, Robert L. Campbell, , , and ; 101 numbered pages plus several inserted pages; CHL. This manuscript covers the period from 1 March 1843 to 31 December 1843.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
<* , , , , JasW Cummings, , <9.3 <also> > , , A. L. Fullmer Joel <E.> Terry, July 1 Dr. Thos. Woolsey, , Dr. , [blank] Babcock, Isaiah Whitesides, Jesse Nichols, & 4 or five others—>
A brief sketch of the expedition under the Command of General from to Ottoway at the time that General Joseph Smith at the time he was kidnaped at Illinois by the Missourians
<Monday 26> <1 a m> The detachment <left the main body of the Camp & started from s Mills about 1 a m on Monday the 26th of June> under the Command of <as follows (see * above)> Numbering <about 35> Men & horses, and <on horses, with> one Baggage wagon drawn by two horses, left <leaving> the main body of the camp about about one oclock at night <am> on <Monday> the <25 <26>> of June with instructions to proceed to , and there cross the , & then to proceed up the <East side of> the <on the main Stage road,> <leading from > to Ottaway, we traveld till about 3 oclock in the Morning <Tuesday 27> when <we hitched our horses to a fence <called a halt<ed>> for about an hour— & put out a guard,> a halt was called Near a [2 words illegible], about where the Company remained about an hour. At day break we again took up the line of March. And traveled that <thro the> day <Tuesda 27> <mostly without a load,> and the <the> following night till near day light <break> of the 27th. when a halt was <and> again called made a halt for an hour <& passed thro’ near Ellesville <before Sunrise> (see s report over)> after which, we again resumed the march <<about noon halted> on the Kick-a-poo Creek, & sent & A L Fullmer to , to see Lawyer Charles C. Ballance, & obtain what information they could from him> and about <between the hou[r]s> <of> one oclock same day <and three oclock x sam[e] P M> <about 2 P.M.> cross<ed> the at <where they <we> obtained supplies for their <our> further journey.> <here they <we>> leaving Brothers <left> & at with instructions to hail the Steamer Maid of Iowa that <which> left at the same time that the <land> expedition left and procure all the <what> information posible <they had> of the whereabouts of Gen <bro:> Jos Smith.
The company proceeded <nearly> due East after crossing the river till they intersected the Stage road running from to Ottawa, at a Small town by the name<d> of Washington 10 Miles East of , there we stopped for about an hour and feed <fed> our horses. At dusk in the evenig we again resumed the March on the Stage road towards Ottowa and traveld about 10 Miles to Black partridge point and camped for the night.
<Wensda [Wednesday] 28> At day break of the 28th. we were on the march, traveld about 35 miles to <the little Town of Magnolia> a place called Oxbow prairie wher <at which place a man by the lived by the nam[e] of Capt <Wm> Haws, and [illegible] of <of> [illegible]> and halted for Noon, <where <we fed ourselves & arrivals at the Public House of> Captn. Wm. Haws (the Captn. of a Co. in which was <served> in the Black Hawk War,> After refreshing ourselves and animals we again resumed the March and ab[o]ut [p. [1]]
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TEXT: This asterisk corresponds to another asterisk eight lines below, indicating that the following text should be inserted after the second asterisk.
Insertion in the handwriting of Thomas Bullock.
Thomas Bullock handwriting ends; probably James W. Cummings begins.
Unless otherwise noted, all corrections on this page are in the handwriting of Thomas Bullock.
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TEXT: This asterisk and notation correspond to another asterisk at the top of the page, indicating that the text following the first asterisk should be inserted here.
Insertion probably in the handwriting of James W. Cummings.
Cancellations and insertion probably in the handwriting of James W. Cummings.
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TEXT: This notation indicates that the text inserted on the verso of this page should be included here.
James W. Cummings probably made corrections to read “and between the hou[r]s of one and three oclock sam[e] P M”; later Thomas Bullock canceled this whole line and replaced it with “about 2 P.M.”
Insertion probably in the handwriting of James W. Cummings.
Insertion probably in the handwriting of James W. Cummings.
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TEXT: “after crossing the river” is circled with a line indicating the text should be moved earlier in the line, after “The company”.
Correction probably in the handwriting of James W. Cummings.
Insertion with corrections probably in the handwriting of James W. Cummings; the whole insertion was then canceled by Thomas Bullock.