***ARRIVED IN CALIFORNIA IN 1846 ABOARD THE SHIP BROOKLYN.***
Birthplace taken from 1860 Census in Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, within household of J. Fowler (female), 40 yrs, b. Massachusetts. She was the wife of Elias Ensign (d. on board the Ship Brooklyn, 1846) and the mother of Jerusha H. Ensign Fowler, Eliza Ensign (d. on voyage to California, 1846) and John Warren Ensign.
Jerusha Ensign was listed as a passenger on the SHIP BROOKLYN, under Captain Richardson. Chartered by Samuel Brannan, left New York Harbor on the 6th of February 1846 en route for California. List of passengers on board the Brooklyn.] "...Jerusha ENSIGN and son;
Eliza Savage; Jerusha H. FOWLER and four children...."
[Source: Woman's Exponent, Salt Lake City, Utah, Vol. 26, No. 4-5, July 15th & August 1, 1897; p. 171]
*****
Voyage of the “Brooklyn”
By Joan S. Hamblin
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1997/07/voyage-of-the-brooklyn?lang=eng
[Excerpted paragraphs and the death of ELIAS ENSIGN]
While most Latter-day Saint pioneers crossed the Great Plains, 238 of them began their journey to refuge in the West with a 24,000-mile sea voyage.
From the northeastern United States, Latter-day Saints converged in New York City in the winter of 1845–46. Lacking means to travel overland to Nauvoo, Illinois, these Saints answered the call of Church leaders to gather to the West by pooling their money and chartering a ship. Under the leadership of Brother Samuel Brannan, who had been appointed by Elder Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, they would sail around South America’s Cape Horn to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and then on to California, crossing the equator twice in the process, making perhaps the longest religious sea pilgrimage in recorded history.
On 4 February 1846 (coincidentally the same day Nauvoo Saints started to cross the Mississippi River in their departure), 238 men, women, and children—mostly families who did not have the financial means to go overland to the West—boarded ship and watched as Captain Abel Richardson maneuvered them out of New York harbor. Small and well-worn, the 450-ton Brooklyn was a typical three-masted, full-rigged Yankee trading ship. The 2,500 square feet of cramped space between decks became the living quarters for families, with a long table, backless benches, and sleeping bunks all bolted to the deck. In the low-ceiling area, only children could stand upright. Below, crammed into the hold, were water barrels, crates of chickens, 2 cows, 40 pigs, 2 sawmills, a gristmill, tools for 800 farmers, a printing press, and much more of everything they thought would be needed away from “civilization.” ….
Blown nearly to the Cape Verde Islands off the northwest coast of Africa, the Brooklyn was now in a position to take advantage of easterly trade winds—a hidden blessing for the travelers.
Two days later, the infant son of Joseph Nichols died, and a week later 59-year-old ELIAS ENSIGN died. Then, like the silver lining of a cloud after a storm, on 24 February Sarah Burr gave birth to a son, named John Atlantic Burr....
On 31 July 1846, the Pacific pilgrims finally reached their destination—a little village of about 150 people, Yerba Buena, later renamed San Francisco. There they learned that United States forces had taken California in a war with Mexico and that only three weeks earlier a U.S. warship had sailed into Yerba Buena, planted the U.S. flag, and taken over the Mexican village. Because they had crossed the equator twice and passed south of Cape Horn, they had experienced extremes in weather, including both tropical and arctic storms. At one point they had lowered men over the sides to chip ice off the ship, the ice being dangerous because of the weight and hindrance to mobility. Weather problems, sickness and deaths, crowded conditions, and limited provisions led one woman to say, “Of all the memories of my life, not one is so bitter as that dreary six months’ voyage, in an emigrant ship, round the Horn.”5 …..
The historic contributions of the Brooklyn Saints are considerable: as far as is known they were the “first colony of home-seekers with women and children to sail around Cape Horn, the first group of Anglo settlers to come to California by water, and the first group of colonists to arrive after United States forces took California.”7 Their contributions to the San Francisco Bay area are numerous, including the first public school, the first bank, the first newspaper, the first post office, the first wheat grown, and the first library. Theirs is yet another example of the indomitable pioneer spirit found among Latter-day Saint pioneers, whether on the overland trail or on the sea. [END of excerpted paragraphs.]
For more information on the Elias and Jerusha Ensign family, see:
http://shipbrooklyn.com/pdf/ensign.pdf
*****
Note: Jerusha Taylor Ensign's daughter, Jerusha H. Ensign Fowler, was committed to the Stockton State Insane Asylum on May 16, 1878 by the Hon. Chas. F. Irwin, County Judge of El Dorado County. Jerusha Fowler died at the age of 59 years at the State Hospital on October 22, 1879.
Birthplace taken from 1860 Census in Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, within household of J. Fowler (female), 40 yrs, b. Massachusetts. She was the wife of Elias Ensign (d. on board the Ship Brooklyn, 1846) and the mother of Jerusha H. Ensign Fowler, Eliza Ensign (d. on voyage to California, 1846) and John Warren Ensign.
Jerusha Ensign was listed as a passenger on the SHIP BROOKLYN, under Captain Richardson. Chartered by Samuel Brannan, left New York Harbor on the 6th of February 1846 en route for California. List of passengers on board the Brooklyn.] "...Jerusha ENSIGN and son;
Eliza Savage; Jerusha H. FOWLER and four children...."
[Source: Woman's Exponent, Salt Lake City, Utah, Vol. 26, No. 4-5, July 15th & August 1, 1897; p. 171]
*****
Voyage of the “Brooklyn”
By Joan S. Hamblin
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1997/07/voyage-of-the-brooklyn?lang=eng
[Excerpted paragraphs and the death of ELIAS ENSIGN]
While most Latter-day Saint pioneers crossed the Great Plains, 238 of them began their journey to refuge in the West with a 24,000-mile sea voyage.
From the northeastern United States, Latter-day Saints converged in New York City in the winter of 1845–46. Lacking means to travel overland to Nauvoo, Illinois, these Saints answered the call of Church leaders to gather to the West by pooling their money and chartering a ship. Under the leadership of Brother Samuel Brannan, who had been appointed by Elder Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, they would sail around South America’s Cape Horn to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and then on to California, crossing the equator twice in the process, making perhaps the longest religious sea pilgrimage in recorded history.
On 4 February 1846 (coincidentally the same day Nauvoo Saints started to cross the Mississippi River in their departure), 238 men, women, and children—mostly families who did not have the financial means to go overland to the West—boarded ship and watched as Captain Abel Richardson maneuvered them out of New York harbor. Small and well-worn, the 450-ton Brooklyn was a typical three-masted, full-rigged Yankee trading ship. The 2,500 square feet of cramped space between decks became the living quarters for families, with a long table, backless benches, and sleeping bunks all bolted to the deck. In the low-ceiling area, only children could stand upright. Below, crammed into the hold, were water barrels, crates of chickens, 2 cows, 40 pigs, 2 sawmills, a gristmill, tools for 800 farmers, a printing press, and much more of everything they thought would be needed away from “civilization.” ….
Blown nearly to the Cape Verde Islands off the northwest coast of Africa, the Brooklyn was now in a position to take advantage of easterly trade winds—a hidden blessing for the travelers.
Two days later, the infant son of Joseph Nichols died, and a week later 59-year-old ELIAS ENSIGN died. Then, like the silver lining of a cloud after a storm, on 24 February Sarah Burr gave birth to a son, named John Atlantic Burr....
On 31 July 1846, the Pacific pilgrims finally reached their destination—a little village of about 150 people, Yerba Buena, later renamed San Francisco. There they learned that United States forces had taken California in a war with Mexico and that only three weeks earlier a U.S. warship had sailed into Yerba Buena, planted the U.S. flag, and taken over the Mexican village. Because they had crossed the equator twice and passed south of Cape Horn, they had experienced extremes in weather, including both tropical and arctic storms. At one point they had lowered men over the sides to chip ice off the ship, the ice being dangerous because of the weight and hindrance to mobility. Weather problems, sickness and deaths, crowded conditions, and limited provisions led one woman to say, “Of all the memories of my life, not one is so bitter as that dreary six months’ voyage, in an emigrant ship, round the Horn.”5 …..
The historic contributions of the Brooklyn Saints are considerable: as far as is known they were the “first colony of home-seekers with women and children to sail around Cape Horn, the first group of Anglo settlers to come to California by water, and the first group of colonists to arrive after United States forces took California.”7 Their contributions to the San Francisco Bay area are numerous, including the first public school, the first bank, the first newspaper, the first post office, the first wheat grown, and the first library. Theirs is yet another example of the indomitable pioneer spirit found among Latter-day Saint pioneers, whether on the overland trail or on the sea. [END of excerpted paragraphs.]
For more information on the Elias and Jerusha Ensign family, see:
http://shipbrooklyn.com/pdf/ensign.pdf
*****
Note: Jerusha Taylor Ensign's daughter, Jerusha H. Ensign Fowler, was committed to the Stockton State Insane Asylum on May 16, 1878 by the Hon. Chas. F. Irwin, County Judge of El Dorado County. Jerusha Fowler died at the age of 59 years at the State Hospital on October 22, 1879.
***ARRIVED IN CALIFORNIA IN 1846 ABOARD THE SHIP BROOKLYN.***
Birthplace taken from 1860 Census in Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, within household of J. Fowler (female), 40 yrs, b. Massachusetts. She was the wife of Elias Ensign (d. on board the Ship Brooklyn, 1846) and the mother of Jerusha H. Ensign Fowler, Eliza Ensign (d. on voyage to California, 1846) and John Warren Ensign.
Jerusha Ensign was listed as a passenger on the SHIP BROOKLYN, under Captain Richardson. Chartered by Samuel Brannan, left New York Harbor on the 6th of February 1846 en route for California. List of passengers on board the Brooklyn.] "...Jerusha ENSIGN and son;
Eliza Savage; Jerusha H. FOWLER and four children...."
[Source: Woman's Exponent, Salt Lake City, Utah, Vol. 26, No. 4-5, July 15th & August 1, 1897; p. 171]
*****
Voyage of the “Brooklyn”
By Joan S. Hamblin
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1997/07/voyage-of-the-brooklyn?lang=eng
[Excerpted paragraphs and the death of ELIAS ENSIGN]
While most Latter-day Saint pioneers crossed the Great Plains, 238 of them began their journey to refuge in the West with a 24,000-mile sea voyage.
From the northeastern United States, Latter-day Saints converged in New York City in the winter of 1845–46. Lacking means to travel overland to Nauvoo, Illinois, these Saints answered the call of Church leaders to gather to the West by pooling their money and chartering a ship. Under the leadership of Brother Samuel Brannan, who had been appointed by Elder Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, they would sail around South America’s Cape Horn to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and then on to California, crossing the equator twice in the process, making perhaps the longest religious sea pilgrimage in recorded history.
On 4 February 1846 (coincidentally the same day Nauvoo Saints started to cross the Mississippi River in their departure), 238 men, women, and children—mostly families who did not have the financial means to go overland to the West—boarded ship and watched as Captain Abel Richardson maneuvered them out of New York harbor. Small and well-worn, the 450-ton Brooklyn was a typical three-masted, full-rigged Yankee trading ship. The 2,500 square feet of cramped space between decks became the living quarters for families, with a long table, backless benches, and sleeping bunks all bolted to the deck. In the low-ceiling area, only children could stand upright. Below, crammed into the hold, were water barrels, crates of chickens, 2 cows, 40 pigs, 2 sawmills, a gristmill, tools for 800 farmers, a printing press, and much more of everything they thought would be needed away from “civilization.” ….
Blown nearly to the Cape Verde Islands off the northwest coast of Africa, the Brooklyn was now in a position to take advantage of easterly trade winds—a hidden blessing for the travelers.
Two days later, the infant son of Joseph Nichols died, and a week later 59-year-old ELIAS ENSIGN died. Then, like the silver lining of a cloud after a storm, on 24 February Sarah Burr gave birth to a son, named John Atlantic Burr....
On 31 July 1846, the Pacific pilgrims finally reached their destination—a little village of about 150 people, Yerba Buena, later renamed San Francisco. There they learned that United States forces had taken California in a war with Mexico and that only three weeks earlier a U.S. warship had sailed into Yerba Buena, planted the U.S. flag, and taken over the Mexican village. Because they had crossed the equator twice and passed south of Cape Horn, they had experienced extremes in weather, including both tropical and arctic storms. At one point they had lowered men over the sides to chip ice off the ship, the ice being dangerous because of the weight and hindrance to mobility. Weather problems, sickness and deaths, crowded conditions, and limited provisions led one woman to say, “Of all the memories of my life, not one is so bitter as that dreary six months’ voyage, in an emigrant ship, round the Horn.”5 …..
The historic contributions of the Brooklyn Saints are considerable: as far as is known they were the “first colony of home-seekers with women and children to sail around Cape Horn, the first group of Anglo settlers to come to California by water, and the first group of colonists to arrive after United States forces took California.”7 Their contributions to the San Francisco Bay area are numerous, including the first public school, the first bank, the first newspaper, the first post office, the first wheat grown, and the first library. Theirs is yet another example of the indomitable pioneer spirit found among Latter-day Saint pioneers, whether on the overland trail or on the sea. [END of excerpted paragraphs.]
For more information on the Elias and Jerusha Ensign family, see:
http://shipbrooklyn.com/pdf/ensign.pdf
*****
Note: Jerusha Taylor Ensign's daughter, Jerusha H. Ensign Fowler, was committed to the Stockton State Insane Asylum on May 16, 1878 by the Hon. Chas. F. Irwin, County Judge of El Dorado County. Jerusha Fowler died at the age of 59 years at the State Hospital on October 22, 1879.
Birthplace taken from 1860 Census in Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, within household of J. Fowler (female), 40 yrs, b. Massachusetts. She was the wife of Elias Ensign (d. on board the Ship Brooklyn, 1846) and the mother of Jerusha H. Ensign Fowler, Eliza Ensign (d. on voyage to California, 1846) and John Warren Ensign.
Jerusha Ensign was listed as a passenger on the SHIP BROOKLYN, under Captain Richardson. Chartered by Samuel Brannan, left New York Harbor on the 6th of February 1846 en route for California. List of passengers on board the Brooklyn.] "...Jerusha ENSIGN and son;
Eliza Savage; Jerusha H. FOWLER and four children...."
[Source: Woman's Exponent, Salt Lake City, Utah, Vol. 26, No. 4-5, July 15th & August 1, 1897; p. 171]
*****
Voyage of the “Brooklyn”
By Joan S. Hamblin
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1997/07/voyage-of-the-brooklyn?lang=eng
[Excerpted paragraphs and the death of ELIAS ENSIGN]
While most Latter-day Saint pioneers crossed the Great Plains, 238 of them began their journey to refuge in the West with a 24,000-mile sea voyage.
From the northeastern United States, Latter-day Saints converged in New York City in the winter of 1845–46. Lacking means to travel overland to Nauvoo, Illinois, these Saints answered the call of Church leaders to gather to the West by pooling their money and chartering a ship. Under the leadership of Brother Samuel Brannan, who had been appointed by Elder Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, they would sail around South America’s Cape Horn to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and then on to California, crossing the equator twice in the process, making perhaps the longest religious sea pilgrimage in recorded history.
On 4 February 1846 (coincidentally the same day Nauvoo Saints started to cross the Mississippi River in their departure), 238 men, women, and children—mostly families who did not have the financial means to go overland to the West—boarded ship and watched as Captain Abel Richardson maneuvered them out of New York harbor. Small and well-worn, the 450-ton Brooklyn was a typical three-masted, full-rigged Yankee trading ship. The 2,500 square feet of cramped space between decks became the living quarters for families, with a long table, backless benches, and sleeping bunks all bolted to the deck. In the low-ceiling area, only children could stand upright. Below, crammed into the hold, were water barrels, crates of chickens, 2 cows, 40 pigs, 2 sawmills, a gristmill, tools for 800 farmers, a printing press, and much more of everything they thought would be needed away from “civilization.” ….
Blown nearly to the Cape Verde Islands off the northwest coast of Africa, the Brooklyn was now in a position to take advantage of easterly trade winds—a hidden blessing for the travelers.
Two days later, the infant son of Joseph Nichols died, and a week later 59-year-old ELIAS ENSIGN died. Then, like the silver lining of a cloud after a storm, on 24 February Sarah Burr gave birth to a son, named John Atlantic Burr....
On 31 July 1846, the Pacific pilgrims finally reached their destination—a little village of about 150 people, Yerba Buena, later renamed San Francisco. There they learned that United States forces had taken California in a war with Mexico and that only three weeks earlier a U.S. warship had sailed into Yerba Buena, planted the U.S. flag, and taken over the Mexican village. Because they had crossed the equator twice and passed south of Cape Horn, they had experienced extremes in weather, including both tropical and arctic storms. At one point they had lowered men over the sides to chip ice off the ship, the ice being dangerous because of the weight and hindrance to mobility. Weather problems, sickness and deaths, crowded conditions, and limited provisions led one woman to say, “Of all the memories of my life, not one is so bitter as that dreary six months’ voyage, in an emigrant ship, round the Horn.”5 …..
The historic contributions of the Brooklyn Saints are considerable: as far as is known they were the “first colony of home-seekers with women and children to sail around Cape Horn, the first group of Anglo settlers to come to California by water, and the first group of colonists to arrive after United States forces took California.”7 Their contributions to the San Francisco Bay area are numerous, including the first public school, the first bank, the first newspaper, the first post office, the first wheat grown, and the first library. Theirs is yet another example of the indomitable pioneer spirit found among Latter-day Saint pioneers, whether on the overland trail or on the sea. [END of excerpted paragraphs.]
For more information on the Elias and Jerusha Ensign family, see:
http://shipbrooklyn.com/pdf/ensign.pdf
*****
Note: Jerusha Taylor Ensign's daughter, Jerusha H. Ensign Fowler, was committed to the Stockton State Insane Asylum on May 16, 1878 by the Hon. Chas. F. Irwin, County Judge of El Dorado County. Jerusha Fowler died at the age of 59 years at the State Hospital on October 22, 1879.
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