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84103, or email to groverfam@yahoo.com
All pictures will be returned. (Please
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We found the Boat!!
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and are looking for a picture
of it. If anyone is out surfing the web,
and finds a picture of the
Bark New York Packet, please
capture the picture and
email to the above address.
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William Garner of Manchester,
England
his wife, Hannah
son William
daughter Mary
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arrived in New Orleans,
LA
on 5 Aug 1840
aboard the New York Packet
traveling to Nauvoo, IL.
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The ship's manifest is quite
dim, and will not successfully
scan to show on the Internet.
A better copy has been
ordered from the National
Archives so that
copies can be made.
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According to a missionary
journal kept by William Clayton (of Come Come Ye Saints
fame) during a mission to
England, his entry of 20 May 1840 reads:
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"Brother Garner is gone
to Liverpool this AM to start for America."
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Another journal of William
Clayton's written in Commerce, IL (Nauvoo was
formerly known as Commerce)
gives the following entry on 24 Nov 1840:
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"We called at the upper
stone house and found Sister Garner from Manchester.
They had arrived about
one week previous having been six months on their way."
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According to a life sketch
of William Garner written by LaVina Haynes Pickett
and available from the Daughters
of the Utah Pioneers, William's
family contracted smallpox
before they left England, which
could account for the length
of the journey.
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