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Note: on the ship : Manhattan Date of Departure: 21 Jun 1867 Port of Departure: Liverpool, England LDS Immigrants: 480 Church Leader: Archibald N. Hill Date of Arrival: 4 Jul 1867 Port of Arrival: New York, New York Source(s): BMR, Book #1048, pp. 296-303 (FHL #025,691); Customs (FHL #175,638); SMR, 1867 (FHL #025,696) Notes: "DEPARTURES. -- The magnificent steamship Manhattan left Liverpool for New York on Friday, 21st instant, having on board a company of Saints numbering in all 480 souls, of whom 290 were from Scandinavia, and 190 from Great Britain. The following missionaries returning to Zion were with the company: -- Elders Archibald N. Hill, James Ure, Francis Platt, Nathaniel H. Felt, William Gibson, Ephraim T. Williams, Stephen Hales, and Richard R. Birkbeck, who have been laboring in England, and Elders Niels Wilhelmsen, Christian Christiansen, Lars P. Edholm, Andrew Nelson, Hans Hansen, Soren Iversen, Jens Hansen, Frederick C. Sorenson, Gustavus Ohlsson, and Svend Larsen, who have been laboring in Scandinavia. Elders Ure, Platt, and Williams, left their homes in Utah in the spring of 1864, and the others in the spring of 1865. They have had the privilege of bearing testimony of the Lord's great work among the nations of Europe, and are now returning to Zion with the blessings of the Saints and of those who have presided over them. There are none who have more cause for joy and pleasant anticipations, than the faithful elders of Israel who have accomplished the missions assigned to them with integrity and honor, and have the privilege of rejoining their families, friends, and the Saints in Zion. May God bless his people on the good ship Manhattan, and preserve them on their journey by sea and by land, that they may go up safely to Zion's retreat 'in the tops of the mountains,' that they may there 'learn of his ways and walk in his paths.'" <MS, 29:26 (June 29, 1867), p.410> "Fri. 21. [June 1867] -- The steamship Manhattan sailed from Liverpool, England, with 480 Saints, under the direction of Archibald N. Hill. It arrived in New York July 4th, and the emigrants continued the journey to North Platte, a station on the Union Pacific Railroad, 391 miles west of Omaha. From that place the journey across the plains was commenced, Aug. 8th, with ox teams, under the direction of Captain Leonard G. Rice, and the company arrived in G. [Great] S. [Salt] L. [Lake] City Oct. 5th." <CC, p.77> Autobiography of Bertha Marie Jensen Eccles . . . Early in June 1867 my parents, my little sister Mary, then about two years old and myself left Denmark for America. From Liverpool we sailed on the steamship Manhattan. This was the first time that a large party of Mormon emigrants had used a steamer to cross the Atlantic. My father was a well-to-do landowner in Denmark and he aided twenty one other persons to get to Utah. Some he helped for the entire distance and some for a least a part of the journey. On the journey across the ocean we traveled in the steerage. About 400 English emigrant converts joined us at Liverpool. Unlike most of the early day emigrants who required many weeks on the ocean we had a rapid trip requiring only 13 days. There were only about two days of rough sea, the rest of the time being very pleasant. I recall that one stormy morning I awoke unable to find my clothing and shoes. The pitching of the ship had tossed my apparel out of the bunks and down the aisles and I had to recover my belongings from a heap of clothing piled at one end of our quarters. We arrived in New York harbor on July 4, 1867. The cannons were booming [p.24] and the usual celebration was in progress. The following day after we had been examined and released from quarantine we went ashore at old Castle Garden. There I tasted my first American pie. It was cherry and full of seeds. Like Edward Bok who has written on hi
Note: Ane Marie Hansen Nielsen came to America with here husband Thomas Peder Nielsen
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