1864-06-03-Monarch-of-the-Sea

Autobiography of Nils C. Flygare

Flygare, Nils Christian, Autobiography. In Papers (Special Collections & Manuscripts, MSS 1496, bx. 1, fd. 3, pp. 51-57). (Harold B . Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah)

... We had very fair sailing and casted anchor in New York Harbor on the 2nd day of June, having made the voyage in 36 days. We passed the quarantine examination all right and were landed in the Castle Garden on the 3rd of June 1864. I put foot on this continent at 11 a.m. on that day. [p.52] The great vessel there as buoyantly had brought us over the great deep was lost the next season with one thousand Irish emigrants on board.

We left New York the same day we landed and on the steamer St. John went up the Hudson River to Albany, a beautiful trip. ...

Autobiography of Richard Daniels Brown Jr.

Brown, Richard Daniels, Jr., [Autobiography], IN Brown, Archie Leon, 141 Years of Mormon Heritage: Rawsons, Browns, Angells - Pioneers (privately printed, 1973) pp. 81- 83. (CHL)

... We had some very severe storms and landed in New York on the 3rd of June 1864. There were about 1,000 passengers aboard besides the officers and sailors.

I left England with only nine cents in my pocket but on landing a gentleman gave me twenty five cents (paper money) for carrying a trunk a short distance (I did not know how to count the American money). I went to buy something to eat (5 cents worth) and on returning was told that they had given me 45 cents back in change.

I was in New York without money or without fare paid any further, but stayed with the Saints who were emigrants and was not molested. ...