Brannan, Samuel

Seeks Oliver Cowdery to travel on the Brooklyn

Source: Oliver Cowdery to Phineas Young, December 18, 1845 in Gunn (1962)

To: Phineas H. Young Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio

Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio December 18, 1845

Brother Phineas [Young]:

Your last letter was answered immediately on its reception, and since writing you I have also received the anticipated one from friend [William W.] Phelps, of which last, I will speak hereafter. �

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� Samuel Brannan writes me strongly to come to New York and go with him by water. Were I to go, for many reasons, I would prefer going this way, and avoid a long journey by land. �

Oliver Cowdery learns of arrival of Brooklyn in Honolulu

Source: Oliver Cowdery to Phineas Young, February 14, 1847 in Gunn (1962).

To: P. H. Young, Esq., Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois

Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio February 14, 1847

Brother Phineas [Young]:

We received yours of the 1st January dated in the Territory, and mailed at Oregon January 8, by due course of mail. �

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A few days ago I received a paper printed at Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, July 1, 1848 which gives me the news of the arrival at that place of the Brooklyn, from New York, with my old apprentice, Samuel Brannan, and his company, on their way to California. The Hawaiian Islands belong to the Sandwich Islands group. Ten deaths occurred on their passage, (4 adults and 6 children) and two births. This paper speaks in the highest praise of the deportment of the company during the long voyage (136) days and though edited by Samuel Seaman's Chaplin', talks very much like a Christian. He implores the blessing of heaven upon them. I ought to have said that the Brooklyn, arrived on the 20th of June. How soon she was to sail, the paper does not say.

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