"DEPARTURE. -- On Wednesday, August 9, the S. S. Minnesota, Captain T. W. Freeman, left Liverpool for New York, having on board a company of sixty Saints, in which number are included Elders William Douglass, Stephen H. Taylor, George O. Noble and Alma Eldredge, who are returning home from their missions to these lands. This company, though small, was exceedingly comfortably situated, and left our shores in most excellent spirits. We trust that these brethren and sisters, like those who have preceded them, will have a speedy, pleasant, and prosperous voyage, and that the watch care of our Heavenly Father will be over them until their journey is accomplished, and still remain with them when they have reached the home of the Saint in Zion."
MS, 33:33 (Aug. 15, 1871), p.520
"Wed. 9. [Aug. 1871] . . . The steamship Minnesota sailed from Liverpool, England, with 60 Saints, under the direction of William Douglass. The company arrived at New
York Aug. 21st, and at Ogden Aug. 30th."
CC, p.85
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