RichardsonÂ' Point. Cloudy morning. At 8 a.m., a fine warm shower repeated 3 times during the a.m. [morning]. Many teams rolled on. Captain C. C. Rich arrived about 10. Thomas Grover arrived with about 10 teams. The brethren husked more than 100 bushels of corn for every 1/4 bushel and the fodder. The band started for Keosaugua about 1 oÂ'clock, mostly in carriages. The four horse teams that were sent back to Farmington, or Lick Creek, on Sunday returned with the families of John Gheen and Theodore Turley. Joseph B. Noble reported Daniel and Orson Spencer encamped 10 miles back and OrsonÂ's wife very sick. Isaac Chase has been sick 2 or 3 days. Is now better. Edwin Little is better.
The Band gave a concert in the courthouse at Keosaugua this evening and cleared $25.70. Were treated with the utmost kindness and attention by the citizens and invited to play again tomorrow evening. 15 or 20 of the brethren held a party at Brother StewartÂ's this evening. Captain A. P. RockwoodÂ's wife, Nancy, presented her husband with a good hat made of straw gathered from the horse feed. Dr. Richards wrote Colonel J. B. Beckenstos requesting him to procure and forward a muster roll of the Carthage Greys and Warsaw Independent Companies for June, 1844, also the names of all the mobocrats in and about Hancock County. The doctor also wrote to John S. Fullmer making the same request, and that he would see that a perfect history of the proceeding at Nauvoo would be kept while he remained there. This morning, George D. Grant and O. P. Rockwell left camp with several of President YoungÂ's horses to trade for oxen.
[source: Willard Richards Journals]
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