We sold all our household goods and prepared for the journey to this land as the Lord our God commanded us.

The servants of God went to England and with the gospel, and the Lord revealed it to our souls that it was true. After being satisfied with the truth of the Latter-day work, we received the spirit of gathering, and the assurance was fixed in our minds that we had to come to the land of Zion to get and receive our blessings.

Having sold all our goods except what we put into boxes; we started to Liverpool by railway on the 16th of March, 1854. We were delayed in Liverpool until the 8th of April; when we sailed across the sea in a ship called the Marshfield and were seven weeks and two days on the sea. We landed in New Orleans. From there we sailed up the Mississippi about 1,000 miles up to the city of Kansas, from there we commenced our land journey in wagons, ten in each wagon, (a company of about 500 souls). We arrived in Salt Lake
City on the 23 October 1854, six months and 15 days travel to this land. We traveled by faith and were led by our God through His servants, as Abraham was led by the Lord. . . . [p.5]

BIB: Steel, James S. Journal (Special Collections & Manuscripts, Mss 516), p. 5. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo
, Utah)
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