1888-06-20-Nevada

Autobiographical Sketch of Charles Henry Haderlie

Haderlie, Charles Henry. Autobiographical sketch (Ms 12767), pp. 2-3.

… We arrived in New York City, June 20th, all well.

At 3 p.m. we took a steamer for Norfolk, Virginia and arrived there on the 21st. …

Journal of John S. Stucki

Stucki, John S., Family History Journal of John S. Stucki (Salt Lake City: Pyramid Press, 1932) pp. 131-34.

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Towards the last, the captain favored our people greatly again. In those days the United States law required all emigrants to go into Castle Garden to be examined, so that if there were any infirm or old without a certain amount of money for them to answer the requirement of the law, they were sent back. Some young people that were members of our Church were sent back while I was on my mission--before we started with our company. Our captain was well pleased with us, and as we had some old people in our company, the captain favored us very much again by fixing it so that the Mormon people did not have to go to the Castle Garden to be examined. A couple of days before we reached New York the captain had the sailors stretch a chain across the deck of the ship and requested all the Mormon people to go on one side of the chain and all the other emigrants to go on the other side of the chain. Then he had our people go down into a large room where there were some clerks before whom they had to report their condition. Then before we got to New York, he had another ship meet his ship. Then he said that all the Mormon people could go over into the other ship, which would take us to Norfolk so that our people would not have to go to Castle Garden to be examined. So our people did not have to undergo the examination like the other emigrants, otherwise, perhaps, some would have to be sent back.

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