On Tuesday the 8th of April at 11 1/4 a.m. we left Kiel per rail and arrived at Altona at 2 1/4 p.m. and [p.17] late in the evening we embarked in ship Franklin for America.

On Tuesday the 15th of April we sailed from Hamburg and came to Cuxhaven the 18th of April where we waited for good wind till Monday 21st when we sailed again and got into the British Channel on Monday the 28th, and our child Anemine was taken sick with measles, and continued sick until the 5th of June.

Our daughter Petreane Magrethe was also sick for 3 weeks on board the Franklin.

We came to New York on Thursday the 29th of May, having been on board the Franklin 7 weeks and 2 days.

We had to lie in quarantine two days because of the much sickness on board, out of 409 emigrants died 3 adults and 45 children under 12 years, or nearly one eight died, mostly of measles or the effect thereof.

Mr. Robert Murray was captain for the ship Franklin. [p.18]

Elder C. A. Madsen was captain for us emigrants, and I was his 1st and Lauritz Larsen from Aalborg his 2nd councilor (appointed April 8.)

C. A. Madsen selected me on the 6th of April as clerk, and cashier (treasurer) for the company till we come to Great Salt Lake City.

On the 31st day of May p.m. we were taken from the ship Franklin to Castle Garden in New York in the United States of North America.

In the evening of May 31st we started on the railway from New York through

mile mile

Albany 144 144

Albany Rochester 229

Suspension Bridge 303 303

Hamilton 43

Suspension Bridge Paris 72

London 119

Windsor 228

Detroit 229 229

Ann Arbor 37

Detroit Jackson 76 [p.19]

Marshall 108

Kalamazoo 141

Niles 191

Michigan City 227

Lake Aation 248

Calumet 269

Chicago 284 284

Mendota 88

Chicago Galesburg 168

East Burlington 218

Quincy 269 269

Hanibal 20

Quincy St. Joseph 207 207

Hanibal Florence 255 255

St. Joseph English Mile 1711

1. Railroad wagon from New York to Albany 144 mile

2. Railroad wagon from Albany to Suspension Bridge 303

3. Railroad wagon from Suspension Bridge to Detroit 229

4. Railroad wagon from Detroit to Chicago 284

5. Railroad wagon from Chicago to Quincy 269

Steamboat from Quincy to Hanibal 20

6. Railroad wagon from Hanibal to St. Joseph 207

Steamboat from St. Joseph to Florence 255

Total Mile 1711 [p.20]

June 1st 1862 we came to Syracuse

2nd

3rd Drive the whole night and day.

4th

5th came to Hanibal

On the 5th of June died my dear child Anemine aged 1 year 3 months and 25 days in Prairie City near Quincey, Illinois and was buried at Hannibal on the 6th of June. This evening we arrived at St. Joseph and left in the evening of the seventh going up the Missouri River and came to Florence, Nebraska, on Monday evening the 9th of June, where we stayed 5 weeks till Monday the 14th of July.

On the 13th of July we were organized at Florence, forty five wagons under C. A. Madsen as captain, and H. C. Hansen as sergeant of the guard.

On the 14th of July we started [p.21] from Florence. . . . [p.22]

. . . Traveling from Florence to Salt Lake City, from July 14th to Sept. 23rd. . . . [p.23]

. . . On Tuesday the 23rd of September 1862 at two in the after noon we arrived in Salt Lake City. . . . [p.25]

BIB: Weibye, Jens Christian Andersen. Daybook. pp.17-23, 25 (MS 1432) (CHL).
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