"EMIGRATION. -- The ship Buena Vista sailed from Liverpool a few days since with 249 Welsh Saints on board. Elder Dan Jones, president. . . ."
MS, 11:5 (March 1, 1849), p.71
"FORTIETH COMPANY. -- 249 Saints. The ship Buena Vista sailed from Liverpool for New Orleans February 25th, 1849, with two hundred and forty-nine Welsh Saints on board
, under the direction of Elder Dan Jones. (Millennial Star, volume XI, page 71.) The company had a safe passage across the Atlantic, but suffered extremely from the cholera while passing up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to Council Bluffs, where the emigrants arrived May 17th, 1849. From Council Bluffs the journey across the plains was successfully made in George A. Smith and Ezra T. Benson's company, Dan Jones still retaining his position as president and captain of the Welsh Saints. He was highly spoken of by Apostle Smith, who refers to him as a man that understood his duty, and who had done a great and noble work in his native land, and afterwards led a company of his countrymen across the might deep. (Millennial Star, Volume XI, pages 71
, 233 and 347.)"
Cont., 13:4 (Mar, 1892), p.235
"Sun. 25. [Feb. 1849] -- The ship Buena Vista sailed from Liverpool, England, with 249 Welsh Saints under the direction of Dan Jones."
CC, p.37
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