Son of Phillip Squire & Agnes Parker
Married Maria Morrell, 8 Jan 1848, Saint Paul, Bristol, Somerset, England
Wm. Squires was born 26 Sep 1816 in Linton, Devon, England
By 1846, William Squires had converted to the Church and immigrated to Iowa, where he enlisted as Third Corporal in Company C of the U.S. Mormon Battalion. He was a member of Lieutenant Willis's Pueblo detachment.
WILLIAM SQUIRES, Corporal. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.
Jesse Sowell Brown (and William Squires) was with his father when they took the sick of the Battalion to Pueblo, Colorado for the winter. They left Pueblo the following spring and went to Fort Laramie, Colorado and followed the Oregon Trail to Fort Bridger and then followed the Donner route into Salt Lake and arrived there on July 29, 1847 five days after Brigham Young. That day "Captain Brown led twenty-nine wagons filled with soldiers, their families, and the Mississippi Saint to a campsite about one half mile north of the temple lot." (5)
All of those Battalion men were re-baptized on August 8, 1847. "The battalion men whose families were still in Winter Quarters left to go to their familes. Captain James Brown made one final trip to obtain severance pay due to men who had been on detached duty in Pueblo. He took several ex-battalion members and started for California. Accompanying him were Abner Blackburn, Lysander Woodworth, Jesse S. Brown, John S. Fowler (not a Mormon Battalion solder), Gilbert Hung, William Squires, and William Gribble."(5)
To quote from the history of Captain Brown written by his grandson Moroni F. Brown: "On the 10th day of August 1847 in company with nine others, Sam Brannan being the guide, he left Salt Lake City bound for San Francisco, California, for the purpose of obtaining from the government paymaster... the money due the volunteers of Company "C"... They journey thither was via Fort Hall (the sink of the Humboldt) and Lake Donner, thence to San Francisco via Sutter's Fort, which was situated six miles from where Sacramento was afterwards built." (2)
It is stated that Jesse gave an account of seeing the remains of the Hastings company who perished at Lake Donner the previous winter, "and how the awe-stricken travelers gazed upon the horrid scene."(2)
2. "Captain James Brown the Pioneer of Ogden", written by his grandson, Moroni F. Brown and published in "141 Years of Mormon Heritage" .
5. "The Mormon Battalion" by Norma Baldwin Ricketts, Chapter 12 Detached Service.
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Maria Morrell, 8 Jan 1848, Saint Paul, Bristol, Somerset, England
Wm. Squires was born 26 Sep 1816 in Linton, Devon, England
By 1846, William Squires had converted to the Church and immigrated to Iowa, where he enlisted as Third Corporal in Company C of the U.S. Mormon Battalion. He was a member of Lieutenant Willis's Pueblo detachment.
WILLIAM SQUIRES, Corporal. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.
Jesse Sowell Brown (and William Squires) was with his father when they took the sick of the Battalion to Pueblo, Colorado for the winter. They left Pueblo the following spring and went to Fort Laramie, Colorado and followed the Oregon Trail to Fort Bridger and then followed the Donner route into Salt Lake and arrived there on July 29, 1847 five days after Brigham Young. That day "Captain Brown led twenty-nine wagons filled with soldiers, their families, and the Mississippi Saint to a campsite about one half mile north of the temple lot." (5)
All of those Battalion men were re-baptized on August 8, 1847. "The battalion men whose families were still in Winter Quarters left to go to their familes. Captain James Brown made one final trip to obtain severance pay due to men who had been on detached duty in Pueblo. He took several ex-battalion members and started for California. Accompanying him were Abner Blackburn, Lysander Woodworth, Jesse S. Brown, John S. Fowler (not a Mormon Battalion solder), Gilbert Hung, William Squires, and William Gribble."(5)
To quote from the history of Captain Brown written by his grandson Moroni F. Brown: "On the 10th day of August 1847 in company with nine others, Sam Brannan being the guide, he left Salt Lake City bound for San Francisco, California, for the purpose of obtaining from the government paymaster... the money due the volunteers of Company "C"... They journey thither was via Fort Hall (the sink of the Humboldt) and Lake Donner, thence to San Francisco via Sutter's Fort, which was situated six miles from where Sacramento was afterwards built." (2)
It is stated that Jesse gave an account of seeing the remains of the Hastings company who perished at Lake Donner the previous winter, "and how the awe-stricken travelers gazed upon the horrid scene."(2)
2. "Captain James Brown the Pioneer of Ogden", written by his grandson, Moroni F. Brown and published in "141 Years of Mormon Heritage" .
5. "The Mormon Battalion" by Norma Baldwin Ricketts, Chapter 12 Detached Service.
* Mormon Battalion members
Son of Phillip Squire & Agnes Parker
Married Maria Morrell, 8 Jan 1848, Saint Paul, Bristol, Somerset, England
Wm. Squires was born 26 Sep 1816 in Linton, Devon, England
By 1846, William Squires had converted to the Church and immigrated to Iowa, where he enlisted as Third Corporal in Company C of the U.S. Mormon Battalion. He was a member of Lieutenant Willis's Pueblo detachment.
WILLIAM SQUIRES, Corporal. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.
Jesse Sowell Brown (and William Squires) was with his father when they took the sick of the Battalion to Pueblo, Colorado for the winter. They left Pueblo the following spring and went to Fort Laramie, Colorado and followed the Oregon Trail to Fort Bridger and then followed the Donner route into Salt Lake and arrived there on July 29, 1847 five days after Brigham Young. That day "Captain Brown led twenty-nine wagons filled with soldiers, their families, and the Mississippi Saint to a campsite about one half mile north of the temple lot." (5)
All of those Battalion men were re-baptized on August 8, 1847. "The battalion men whose families were still in Winter Quarters left to go to their familes. Captain James Brown made one final trip to obtain severance pay due to men who had been on detached duty in Pueblo. He took several ex-battalion members and started for California. Accompanying him were Abner Blackburn, Lysander Woodworth, Jesse S. Brown, John S. Fowler (not a Mormon Battalion solder), Gilbert Hung, William Squires, and William Gribble."(5)
To quote from the history of Captain Brown written by his grandson Moroni F. Brown: "On the 10th day of August 1847 in company with nine others, Sam Brannan being the guide, he left Salt Lake City bound for San Francisco, California, for the purpose of obtaining from the government paymaster... the money due the volunteers of Company "C"... They journey thither was via Fort Hall (the sink of the Humboldt) and Lake Donner, thence to San Francisco via Sutter's Fort, which was situated six miles from where Sacramento was afterwards built." (2)
It is stated that Jesse gave an account of seeing the remains of the Hastings company who perished at Lake Donner the previous winter, "and how the awe-stricken travelers gazed upon the horrid scene."(2)
2. "Captain James Brown the Pioneer of Ogden", written by his grandson, Moroni F. Brown and published in "141 Years of Mormon Heritage" .
5. "The Mormon Battalion" by Norma Baldwin Ricketts, Chapter 12 Detached Service.
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Maria Morrell, 8 Jan 1848, Saint Paul, Bristol, Somerset, England
Wm. Squires was born 26 Sep 1816 in Linton, Devon, England
By 1846, William Squires had converted to the Church and immigrated to Iowa, where he enlisted as Third Corporal in Company C of the U.S. Mormon Battalion. He was a member of Lieutenant Willis's Pueblo detachment.
WILLIAM SQUIRES, Corporal. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.
Jesse Sowell Brown (and William Squires) was with his father when they took the sick of the Battalion to Pueblo, Colorado for the winter. They left Pueblo the following spring and went to Fort Laramie, Colorado and followed the Oregon Trail to Fort Bridger and then followed the Donner route into Salt Lake and arrived there on July 29, 1847 five days after Brigham Young. That day "Captain Brown led twenty-nine wagons filled with soldiers, their families, and the Mississippi Saint to a campsite about one half mile north of the temple lot." (5)
All of those Battalion men were re-baptized on August 8, 1847. "The battalion men whose families were still in Winter Quarters left to go to their familes. Captain James Brown made one final trip to obtain severance pay due to men who had been on detached duty in Pueblo. He took several ex-battalion members and started for California. Accompanying him were Abner Blackburn, Lysander Woodworth, Jesse S. Brown, John S. Fowler (not a Mormon Battalion solder), Gilbert Hung, William Squires, and William Gribble."(5)
To quote from the history of Captain Brown written by his grandson Moroni F. Brown: "On the 10th day of August 1847 in company with nine others, Sam Brannan being the guide, he left Salt Lake City bound for San Francisco, California, for the purpose of obtaining from the government paymaster... the money due the volunteers of Company "C"... They journey thither was via Fort Hall (the sink of the Humboldt) and Lake Donner, thence to San Francisco via Sutter's Fort, which was situated six miles from where Sacramento was afterwards built." (2)
It is stated that Jesse gave an account of seeing the remains of the Hastings company who perished at Lake Donner the previous winter, "and how the awe-stricken travelers gazed upon the horrid scene."(2)
2. "Captain James Brown the Pioneer of Ogden", written by his grandson, Moroni F. Brown and published in "141 Years of Mormon Heritage" .
5. "The Mormon Battalion" by Norma Baldwin Ricketts, Chapter 12 Detached Service.
* Mormon Battalion members
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