[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Nishonee Botany. Very pleasant. Started at 4½ [4:30], rode across the flood wood bridge and breakfasted with Pleasant Ewell and others. About 6, passed on till about 1. Dined with C. P. Lott's family at Keg Creek. Passed on, calling on different encampments, passing between 30 and 40 encampments west of Keg Creek and put up at Elder Taylor's tent on the Bluff a few rods west of the lower bridge on Mosquito Creek, where [there] was Elders Woodruff's, O. Pratt's, P. P. Pratt's and Taylor's encampments and a large bower where was a meeting this day. At 5½ [5:30] p.m., Presidents Young, Kimball, P. P. Pratt, Taylor, Richards, J. E. Little, L. Richards, William Clayton and Father Morley present.
At 6, council wrote to O. Pratt and others of the council who were across the Missouri to notify all those who had enlisted, or wanted to enlist, to meet at headquarters near Mosquito Creek at Pratt and Taylor encampments at 10 tomorrow a.m., and all others of the brethren to meet at the same place at 12 noon with Captain Allen and Colonel Kane, son of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, who was at Washington with J. C. Little and had come on to go with the "Mormon" troops to California. Also sent messengers to the different camps east of Keg Creek to meet at the sane time and place.
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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