Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Liverpool to Great Salt Lake : the 1851 journal of missionary George D. Watt / edited by LaJean Purcell Carruth and Ronald G. Watt ; transcription by LaJean Purcell Carruth ; introduction by Fred E. Woods.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 231 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781496231697
  • 1496231694
  • 9781496231680
  • 1496231686
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Liverpool to Great Salt Lake.DDC classification:
  • 289.3092 23
LOC classification:
  • BX8695.W38 A3 2022
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface : George D. Watt -- out of obscurity and into the light / Ronald G. Watt -- Introduction : the Latter-day Saint gathering / Fred E. Woods -- George D. Watt's Pitman shorthand and the process of transcription / LaJean Purcell Carruth -- The Atlantic Ocean -- The rivers -- The trail -- The end of the trail -- Sermons delivered by Orson Pratt on board the Ellen Maria -- Appendix 1 : style guide for transcriptions from Pitman Shorthand -- Appendix 2 : third company of ten of the John Brown Company -- Appendix 3 : George D. Watt's wives and children -- Appendix 4 : two reminiscent accounts from early Latter-day Saint missionaries to England -- Appendix 5 : yearly numbers of people traveling the overland trails -- Glossary of nautical, steamboat, and river terms.
Summary: "George Darling Watt was the first convert of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints baptized in the British Isles. He emigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. He returned to the British Isles in 1846 as a missionary, accompanied by his wife and young son. He remained there until 1851, when he led a group of emigrant converts to Salt Lake City, Utah. Watt recorded his journey from Liverpool to Chimney Rock in Pitman shorthand. Remarkably, his journal wasn't discovered until 2001-and is transcribed and appearing for the first time in this book. Watt's journal provides an important glimpse into the transatlantic nature of Latter-day Saint migration to Salt Lake City. In 1850 there were more Latter-day Saints in England than in the United States, but by 1890 more than eighty-five thousand converts had crossed the Atlantic and made their way to Salt Lake City. Watt's 1851 journal opens a window into those overseas, riverine, and overland journeys. His spirited accounts provide wide-ranging details about the births, marriages, deaths, Sunday sermons, interpersonal relations, weather, and food and water shortages of the journey, as well as the many logistical complexities."-- Provided by publisher
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3186314

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : George D. Watt -- out of obscurity and into the light / Ronald G. Watt -- Introduction : the Latter-day Saint gathering / Fred E. Woods -- George D. Watt's Pitman shorthand and the process of transcription / LaJean Purcell Carruth -- The Atlantic Ocean -- The rivers -- The trail -- The end of the trail -- Sermons delivered by Orson Pratt on board the Ellen Maria -- Appendix 1 : style guide for transcriptions from Pitman Shorthand -- Appendix 2 : third company of ten of the John Brown Company -- Appendix 3 : George D. Watt's wives and children -- Appendix 4 : two reminiscent accounts from early Latter-day Saint missionaries to England -- Appendix 5 : yearly numbers of people traveling the overland trails -- Glossary of nautical, steamboat, and river terms.

"George Darling Watt was the first convert of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints baptized in the British Isles. He emigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. He returned to the British Isles in 1846 as a missionary, accompanied by his wife and young son. He remained there until 1851, when he led a group of emigrant converts to Salt Lake City, Utah. Watt recorded his journey from Liverpool to Chimney Rock in Pitman shorthand. Remarkably, his journal wasn't discovered until 2001-and is transcribed and appearing for the first time in this book. Watt's journal provides an important glimpse into the transatlantic nature of Latter-day Saint migration to Salt Lake City. In 1850 there were more Latter-day Saints in England than in the United States, but by 1890 more than eighty-five thousand converts had crossed the Atlantic and made their way to Salt Lake City. Watt's 1851 journal opens a window into those overseas, riverine, and overland journeys. His spirited accounts provide wide-ranging details about the births, marriages, deaths, Sunday sermons, interpersonal relations, weather, and food and water shortages of the journey, as well as the many logistical complexities."-- Provided by publisher

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2022).