Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois begins. ―First group of Saints crossed the Mississippi on a fleet of flatboats and skiffs to begin the long trek across Iowa. On the same day, ―238 Mormons began a sea voyage of twenty-four thousand miles from New York to Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) . . . [in] an old, worn-out 450 ton cargo vessel, the Brooklyn. . .
[source: Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984]
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