Chariton River. Morning clear and cool with occasional gusts of wind from the northwest. President Young was engaged in council some time this forenoon at Captain Rockwood's tent with Captain E. T. Benson [Young], A. P. Rockwood [Young], H. Egan [Kimball], William Hall, and Brother Fisher, who were appointed to go through the camp and complete the object of the council, which was to ascertain the situations of the wagons, horses, etc., furnished by Bishop Evans at Nauvoo for the benefit of the camp, which are and were the property of Bishop Evans and the company that he had formed. In the afternoon, the committee reported to J. D. Lee [Young] clerk at the post office as being in the hands of various individuals in the camps, 26 of said horses, 10 wagons, 1 watch, several ploughs, seed wheat, etc.
About noon, a small package of letters was received from Nauvoo. Captain Averett came in from P. P. PrattÂ's encampments on Shoal Creek, and said that one of Orson Pratt's men went hunting before breakfast on Friday morning and has not been heard from since. The camp hunted after him this day.
President Young, Bishop Whitney, Kimball, Stout, and others in council at post office. Egan [Kimball] stated that he had bought 1.10 bushels corn at this encampment at 20 cents. President Young said that he had paid out $36.60 cash for corn, $24.40 for the benefit of his 50, and $12.20 to William Clayton for the Band, besides 19 bushels to the guard since our encampment here. President Young proposed to divide the guard and pioneers and distribute them among the companies of fifties. He selected Captain H. Stout with 12 or 14 others as his portion of the guard. Toward night the wind became calm, the evening very still, clear, and pleasant, though cold. The historian, yet sick in bed, dictated history till past midnight for John D. Lee [Young] to write.
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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