"FIFTY-FIRST COMPANY. -- Joseph Badger, 227 souls. On Thursday, October 17th, 1850, two hundred and twenty-seven Saints, most of them from Wales, sailed from Liverpool
, England, under the presidency of John Morris, in connection with whom David Evans and Owel Williams acted as counselors. Elder John Tingey was appointed as an assistant counselor to take the immediate oversight of the English and Scotch Saints. After a remarkably short passage, the Joseph Badger arrived at the mouth of the Mississippi River on the twentieth of November. While at anchor in the mouth of the river, the James Pennell, which had sailed from Liverpool, October 2nd, but had been disabled on the voyage, came up with the Joseph Badger, and the two ships were towed up the river together and landed at New Orleans, November 22nd.
Failing to secure a passage on the same boat that took the James Pennell passengers up the river, the company, which had crossed in the Joseph Badger, after two or three days delay in New Orleans, sailed up the river in the steamboat El Pasa, which brought them safely to St. Louis, Missouri, in the beginning of December, 1850. Like the Saints who had crossed the ocean in the North Atlantic and the James Pennell, this company made St. Louis and surrounding towns their temporary homes, and subsequently, after earning means wherewith to secure an outfit for crossing the plains, continued the journey to the Valley. (Millennial Star, Vol. XIII, page 9. Bishop John Tingey's verbal report.)"
Cont., 13:7 (May 1892), pp.326-27
"Thurs. 17. [Oct. 1850] -- The ship Joseph Badger sailed from Liverpool, England, with 227 Saints on board, under the direction of John Morris; it arrived at New Orleans Nov. 22nd."
CC, p.40
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