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Date Place Event & Source

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John McCord Lamoreaux was born in New York in 1779, in American Revolutionary days. His father, Josué Lamoreaux, a Loyalist, fought and was captured by Patriots in New York and later released.

The family was exiled into Canada on the Spring Fleets of 1783. In Canada he met and married Abigail Ann Losee and they moved to Upper Canada, Ontario in 1808.

The Lamoreaux family had the post office in Scarborough, now a part of Toronto.John and Abigail listened to the Missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1836.

They, along with many of their family, joined the church and left for Kirtland, Ohio in 1837. They later settled in Nauvoo, Illinois on the Mississippi River.

Abigail died about 1839, in Illinois. John died 1848, in Pottawattamie, Iowa.

THE LAMOREAUX FAMILIES WERE IN CANADA 1783 TO 1837"New York... 1783... 'The spirit of persecution and violence against the unhappy loyalists does not

appear to abate to any degree since the cessation of hostilities. They are not suffered to go into the country even to take a last farewell of their relations." Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984 p 221

The Loyalists landed at Saint John angry, dispirited and vulnerable. They came not as heroic founders of a new nationality but as sufferers and exiles. They saw themselves as victims-... deserted by the government they had sacrificed their all for... Fleet after fleet was precipitated on shore without so much as a shelter to go under, with no one ready to show them their promised lands. Yet most remained and most survived.

"...startling reality when the Loyalist transports anchored off St John harbour. .. the prospect at the river's mouth was dank and depressing. ...the terrain, rocky and barren, the land fit only for pasture ... very broken, barren and but little cultivated. ...the soil poor, being covered with moss, ...for the first thirty miles, the borders of the river are high, rocky and barren. "

Early Loyalist Saint John, DG Bell, New Ireland Press, 1983, p 46. [This book has a good description of St John 1783.]

Exile is the emptiness - for however much you broughtwith you, there's far more you left behind.

Exile is the ego that shrinks, for how can you provewhat you were and what you did?

Exile is the erasure of pride. Exile is the escape that is often worse than the prison.

Paul Tabori, The Anatomy of Exile

Events in New YorkDate Place Event & Source 1739 Jan 9 prob. Bedford?, John’s father Josué' Lamoureux is Born to Daniel Lamoreaux & Jeanne Masse

or Philipstown? “Jausue Lamoureux,"fils de Daniel Lamoureux et de Jeanne Massee est... Presente Westchester Co au Baptisme par Francois Lent et Parain et maraine. [God parents/ witnesses]

New York [This record seems to be incomplete, not torn. Minister and/ or place of baptism is given

for other children. This one not given.] [This Josué' married Elizabeth Ogden.]

Daniel's hand made account book. [prob. Philipstown comes from ??? Isabelle.]

[Archive Record says, Philipstown, NY]Apr1760 - Muster roll lists " Joshua Lumerix …5' 8;…Black hair & black

eyes" - age 21, born in Westchester Co [1760-21=1739]

Muster Roll, 13 May 1760 Capt. Haight CoJohnAbigailTmLnCreated by April Coleman 5/18/2009 update – printed 5/14/2023 Page 1 of 55


State of NY, Report of the State Historian 1897, Colonial series v 2 [From Isabelle] Mesa FHC US, NY, H2, 3

1743 about Duchess Co, NY Elizabeth Ogden is born, Duchess Co, NY [ also listed as 1738.]Ancestral File.

1739-44 Westchester Co, Jeanne Lamoureaux died between 1739 & 1744, age about 43- 48 buried in Westchester New York Co. Aaltie Storm's husband died in 1739 [Isabelle Cluff says it was in Phillipsburgh]1757 about Philipstown? Josué Lamoreaux married Elizabeth Ogden in NY, [Prob. Putnam Co, Philipstown

[? He was abt 18.] [He grew up early. Rented land at 16-17; married at 18.]Family Records [son John McCord Lamoreaux said!]

1758 July Duchess Co, NY James Lamoreaux, Josué Lamoureux & Elizabeth Ogden's 1st child, is born

(later Putnam) Family Records Philipstown, NY Archive Record [says B 1760 it has no Suzanna]

[James lived to be 111 years, 4 months. Died in Canada, 1869.][Sets Birth date at July 1758.] [Did he state his birthplace?]

Toronto Newspaper "...rol", on County News pageBrougham, 25 Oct 1938

1759 Mar 5 Long Island, Q Simon Losee married Margaret Brush ???New York [Parents of Abigail Ann Losee]

1760 Westchester Co, Susanna, Josué Lamoureux & Elizabeth Ogden 2nd child, is born.

New York Family Records - Josué will mentions Susanna1760 Apr 23 Westchester Co Joshua Lamoreaux enlisted in the militia in 1760. Probably the French & Indian War

New York Muster roll lists " Joshua Lumerix" ; …5' 8";…Black hair & black eyes" "Inlisted 23 Apr[1760] - age 21, born in Westchester Co, cordwainer,

Volunteer in Capt. Phil.Verplanck's Co." "Men raised and passed in the Co of Westchester for Captain Jon'th Haight Company, May ye 13, 1760."

Muster Roll, 13 May 1760 Capt. Haight CoState of NY, Report of the State Historian 1897, Colonial series v 2 [From Isabelle] Mesa FHC US, NY, H2, 3

1762 Philipstown, NY Jerusha (Rhoda), Josué Lamoureux & Elizabeth Ogden 3rd child, is born

now Putnam Co, Family Records

1763 French & Indian War ends - The treaty of Paris was signed, ending the conflict between

English & French, giving the English control of North America east of the Mississippi.

The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes p 1991764 Duchess Co, NY Jemima Lamoureux, Josué Lamoureux & Elizabeth Ogden's 4th child, is born

Philipstown, Family Records

[As an 82 year old widow in Canada, Jemima is listed as a Presbyterian. Look here for more family records.]

1768 Philipse Upper Josué Lamoreaux listed on rent rolls at property of B. Robinson B-in-law of Benedict

Patent, Duchess Arnold, officer for G Washington, head quartered at West Point just across the river.

New York Arnold & Andre' met at Peekskill to exchange plans for West Point to give to British; for which Andre' was caught & hung in 1780. Washington, as commander of West Point, was staying on Robinson's property at the time. Arnold escaped and went to England. "Robinson had left by this time."

Early Settlers of Putnam Co, F C Haacker 19461770 July 9 Philipstown, NY Joshua Jr., Josué' & Elizabeth 5th child, is born Duchess Co, NY (later Putnam) Family RecordsJohnAbigailTmLnCreated by April Coleman 5/18/2009 update – printed 5/14/2023 Page 2 of 55


1775 New York According to Memorials written later, by John McCord Lamoreaux, his father Joshua

Lamoreaux "joined the British Standard" in 1775. Family tradition states they were in the worst area of fighting. War started 1775 even before Declaration.

“The petition of John Lamoreaux of Pickering born in the State of New York and aged 33 years [1812-33=1779] humbly sheweth your petitioner is the son of A loilest [loyalist] [Josué Lamoreaux ] who joined The British Standard in the year 1775 and remained in his Majesty’s dominions ever since…

“York November 23th 1812 John Lamoreaux”John McCord Lamoreaux memorial of 23 Nov 1812 [I have copy.

akrc]"Perhaps the hardest condition for both sides to bear during the years of the long fight in the (Hudson) valley was the bitter dissension among neighbors."

The Lordly Hudson, Carl Cramer1770"s NY "Joshua's [Lamoreaux] land was in Newburgh, NY. and he left with or immediately or 1780 after the 'Arnold Treachery'". Arnold was a Huguenot family. [Where is Newburgh?]

Duane LaMoreaux, Letter July 1991 states British records were sold to U of Mich and are at Ann Arbor

1770's Duchess Co, NYJosué Lamoreaux "Resided at Duchess Co, NY... was obliged to leave his property

to the value of two hundred pounds N York currency in land and movable estate ... Beside services as a vollintear at the outpost with Col Dellincar (Delancy) was taken prisoner and wounded and very badly treated while with them But got exchanged and remained till the treaty of peace"

Loyalist Petition #271 & 273 & cover 20 Mar 1786 Fredricton, NB, Dept of Nat'l Resources,

[I think this means he & family remained in New York City, Morrisania, Long Island or etc.][Morrisania was not evacuated till 1783] [Where are the records of DeLancy’s group?] [Find DeLancy

history]

1771 A colonial census is taken; this is the last of the colonial census History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard &

Spooner1773 Sept 18 N America Total eclipse of the sun “There were four total solar eclipses between 1773 and 1778

… on Sept. 18, 1773, March 1, 1775, July 5, 1777 and June 24, 1778. Of these, only the September 18, 1773 eclipse was likely to have been visible over North America.”

“Was anything happening in the sky between 1772 and 1776?” NASA, http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11791.html

1775 New York Andrew Lamoreaux, Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux’s 6th child, is born.

[Later killed by a falling tree, died after 1797 Mar 6]Family Records

1775 Joshua Lamoreaux - According to Memorials written later, by John McCord Lamoreaux,

Joshua "joined the British Standard" in 1775. Family tradition states they were in the worst area of fighting. War started 1775 even before Declaration.

See later petitions1776 July 4 Philadelphia Declaration of Independence signed

NOTE: The Loyalist families were forced to evacuate their Hudson River farms and go into New York City by 1779 through 1783. Housing was crowded and inadequate. Parts of the City had been burned. Food was rationed out by the British.]

1776 New York City New York City is occupied by the British New York City is an English StrongholdNY Area Key Chronology

1777 Philipse Patent “Joshua & Elisha Lamoreaux (are listed) on the 1777 tax list of Philipse Patent

which was later called Philipstown.” [Isabelle] p 90“The Lamoreaux were a French family who settled on the Post Road still further north, their tract embracing the northeast corner of the lot.”

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“Historical & Genealogical Record of Dutchess and Putnam County, New York,” Haight, AV Co, 1912, from Isabelle

1777 Mar 6 New York Isaac Lamoreux, Josué & Elizabeth 7th child, is born in New YorkFamily Bible of Isaac & Ann LamoreauxFrom Duane L"Amoureux, 19I9, have a copy

1777 May 1 Philipse Patent Josué Lamoreaux last listing on rent rolls at Philipse Upper Patent, Duchess

Co, NY. On Lot #4 owned by and next door to Beverly Robinson, B-in-law of Benedict Arnold, officer for George Washington. One of "…75 tenants most of them under short leases; in general very good farms; ... in Peeks Kill Hollow & from 4 to 12 miles from Peeks Kill Landing on the Hudson River... good roads." This is just south from West Point.

"At the time of the Revolutionary War this patent was owned by Philip Philipse, and [Sisters] Mary and Susannah, wives of Colonel Roger Morris and Beverly Robinson, of the British Army. Morris and Robinson together with their wives, were attained, and their property was confiscated and sold by the Commissioners of Forfeiture. Most land was sold to Patriot tenants. [see 1756 entry on Washington & Robinson.]

[I think this is a list of rents paid. Josué would have been there still on 1 May 1777.]Early Settlers of Putnam Co, F C Haacker 1946NY State Lib#A974.732, q H 111 SLC FHC #529,189

"Most women stayed home during the war, but they did things they hadn't done before. They had to do all the men's work as well as their own. They ran the farms and businesses… When battles were fought near their homes, women fed and cared for the wounded.

"Women who were loyalist had a terrible time of it. Usually they had to keep quiet or leave the country… Women whose husbands had gone off to war to fight were often alone when the invading army looted and destroyed, as armies often do. When it was necessary, women put guns to their shoulders… on the frontier… many had fought the Indians…""

From Colonies to Country, Joy Hakam, p 110"Many women, Patriot and Loyalist alike, were forced to house the enemy,

and those women whose husbands were away were forced to defend the family's property, earn a living, and protect their families as well. …Women on farms were constantly faced with the threat of losing animals and crops to the enemy. …some unscrupulous characters …turned to cattle rustling… Crops in the field were also fair game."

"When fighting armies approached, women had little choice but to flee with their children… moved in with friends and relatives.

Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution, Karen Zeinert, p70-74

[Where was Elizabeth during the time Joshua was wounded? Where were her children born?]

1777 Aug 30 Council of Safety for the State of New York were, "empowered to remove wives &

children of" Loyalists War out of Niagara, H. Swiggett, 1933, MP Library 1996

1778 June 24 New York Total eclipse of the sun – [see note 1773 Sept 18]War out of Niagara, H. Swiggett 1933

1778 Westchester Co., There was a small-pox epidemic "like a cordon to the south across Westchester Co. & New York Connecticut"

War out of Niagara, H. Swiggett 19331778 ???New York Abigail Ann Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Bush

They were married 1759, of Huntington, Long Island, Nassau, NYFamily Records & Isabelle L. Cluff

1700's late Duchess Co, NYJosué “Lamoraux” "Resided at Duchess Co, NY ... was obliged to leave his property to

the value of two hundred pounds New York currency in land and movable estate …. Beside services as a vollintear at the outpost with Col Dellincar (Delancy) was taken prisoner and wounded and very badly treated while with them But got exchanged and remained till the treaty of peace"

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coverJosué said they lived "in the worst part of New York …very close and cannons fired over their land."

Petition #??1770's late “Josué, [Lamoreaux] ... having been forced to flee from his native state, New York,

where he, with others loyal to old King George of England, had been branded as Tories in their refusal to fight with American patriots in the Revolutionary War.”

"The Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux", by Edith Ivans Lamoreaux

NOTE: [Remained? Where? NYC? Are there records of prisoner exchanges? Some are listed in 1777, not Josué]

1779 July 19 New York John McCord Lamoreaux, 8th child, born to Josue & Elizabeth Ogden Lamoreaux

Nauvoo Temple record [In Nauvoo he said he was born in New York City] [I cannot imagine Elizabeth in this condition. War, all around her; her husband taken prisoner, having to get her family to a safe place… having babies every other year! ...she eventually has eight children to take care of in these circumstances … who was there to help her? How did she get from the Hudson River near Peekskill to New York City and then to Canada? This may have been in Morrisania???, New York City??? Or Where? akrc]

“The petition of John Lamoreaux of Pickering born in the State of New York and aged 33 years [1812-33=1779] humbly sheweth your petitioner is the son of A loilest [sic - loyalist] [Josué Lamoreaux ] who joined The British Standard in the year 1775 and remained in his Majesty’s dominions ever since…

“York November 23rd 1812 John Lamoreaux”John Mc Lamoreaux memorial of 23 Nov 1812 [I have copy. akrc]

1780 Sept West Point Major John Andre met with Benedict Arnold “Benedict Arnold began to correspond secretly with General Clinton about his

plan to let West Point fall into British hands. Andre was adjutant general to General Sir Henry Clinton, Commander- in-Chief of the British forces in North America.

“1780 (September 16) Clinton sent Major Andre up the Hudson in the British Sloop-of-War, Vulture to meet with Benedict Arnold.

“1780 (September 20) -- Andre was rowed ashore at the long cove just south of Haverstraw, where the two men conferred until sunrise. Their plans for the handing over of West Point still not complete, Andre, Arnold, and Smith got on three horses; … They ascended a steep hillside to Smith's house, the two-story residence known as Belmont commanded a broad view of the Hudson at Haverstraw Bay. The home of Joshua Hett Smith stood on what is now known as Treason Hill. There it was agreed …”

“Hiking Old Tappan.” http://nynjctbotany.org/whudson/tappan.html. 5/25/2009.

1779-1780 New York Bay “The winter of 1779-80 was the severest ever known in this part of the country. Not only

the whole North (or Hudson) River, but much of New York Bay, was frozen solid,…” Washington could have captured NYC easily because they were in their most “deplorable plight” Patriots were encamped in two divisions,… Peekskill and in the highlands,” and “under Washington at Morristown.” P 460“…Seventh British regiment …about 300… horse… came over from Long Island to Westchester on the ice."

History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard & SpoonerStaten Island, NY “During the severe winter of 1779-80, while the Americans were encamped near Morristown,

(N.J.,) …2500 men, crossed the sound on the ice from Deharts Point, …on the 15 th of Jan.: but the movement was observed in time to prepare for defense. Contrary to expectation, the passage to New York was found to be free from ice, and during the day the British were reinforced from the city.”

French, J.H., Gazetteer State of New York,[John McCord Lamoreaux was about 6 months old at this extremely cold time. Where were his mother and brothers and sisters? Where was his dad, Josue? akrc]



1781 Oct 19 Yorktown, VA The British Army formally surrenderedCornwallis surrenders. British troops lay down their arms.

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984 p 33."New York City had remained a British garrison and a Loyalist haven since it's capture in September, 1776. During 1782, as it became clear that the war was lost and that the rebels remained antagonistic, refugees flooded in to camps set up on Long Island, Staten Island, and the Jersey Shore. ... a total of perhaps thirty thousand."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984 p 33.1783 New York "New York… 1783… 'The spirit of persecution and violence against

the unhappy loyalists does not appear to abate to any degree since the cessation of hostilities. They are not suffered to go into the country even to take a last farewell of their relations."

Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984 p 2211783 There is a great deal of small pox in New York in 1783

The Loyalist of New Brunswick , E.C. Wright 1783 A Treaty is signed. War Ends. Loyalist must leave.1783 Europe Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composing music1783 May 14 NY After a year of truce“…on 14th of May, when… Westchester Co was surrendered to the

State government by the withdrawal of the British garrrison from Morrisannia.” P 525 History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard & Spooner

“But though the 14th of May was Evacuation Day for Westchester County, it was not until the 25th of November that the British troops in New York City took their farewell. The deportation of the thousands …”

History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard & Spooner P 525

Spring & Summer Fleets leave New York City for Canada“Esther Clark Wright, who has given these Loyalists careful study, states that

there were about eighty Huguenot families, many from New Rochelle and Staten Island Huguenot settlements. Most of these settled in Queens County. In Sunbury County, Maugerville became a centre. The following names of families have been provided by Mrs. Wright in a personal letter: Allair, Ansley, …Brundage,… Chadeayne,… Crozier, … DeForest, DeLong, …Devoe, Dibble, … Evarts, … Frazee, Guthrie, Haycock, Lamoreaux, … LeRoy, Lesterr, Losee, Mabee, Mercereau, … Secord, …

Reaman says: “The Lamerieux Family, pronounced Lumoree or Lamoroo, came first to Acadia [One did; one didn’t. He is mixing two different Lamoreaux families together. akrc] and sometime about 1816 came to Ontario County, in Upper Canada. James Lamerieux is a son of the first ancestor in New Brunswick.” [Son of our Josué]

G. Elmore Reaman The Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the U S, S A &Canada,

P 208, 209, 210, 212

Lamoreaux Canada Timeline1783 May-Jul NY to NB Spring & Summer Fleets leave NYC for Canada

Joshua's petitions state he was on the Spring Fleet, and in New Brunswick by July 1783.

"The June or Summer Fleet of eighteen transports which left in mid-June brought about twenty-five hundred more to Annapolis, Port Roseway, Fort Cumberland, and the Saint John River. By July, the ships of the Spring Fleet had returned and began to sail back north intermittently. These irregular sailings - unremarkable, often unrecorded-increased in August when Carleton, pressured by numbers, decided to hire private vessels, including many belonging to patriots. The voyages continued until November."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984. p 38.“As the refugees,... reached the wild, lonely, barren shores of Nova Scotia,

they were, however, deeply apprehensive. It was nothing like what they had been led to believe. Trees had to be felled and brush had to be cleared before they could even pitch tents to provide immediate shelter. ... At the landing site across the bay, where the city of St John would grow, there was little but woods and



swamp."The weather was also demoralizing. Nine months of winter each year

and the phenomenon of fog that bit right through to the bones were an unsettling novelty… p 216

"It was not an easy way. During the 'starving time,' a shattering famine in the late 1780's, many refugees thought longingly of the farms and towns they had forsaken in the American states years before. People survived by eating wild plants and stripping bark from trees to supplement their meager diets… Stories are still told of how beef bones were passed from home to home for soup and of dozens of acres offered for a bushel of potatoes or wheat." p 217

Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984 1783 May New York Daniel & Jesse Lamoureux are on the victualling list. Daniel,

St. John, NB unit 7, yeoman, from NY, wife, 2 children under 10, 1 servant listed in NY none in May at St John. Jesse, unit 7, farmer, NY WC, came on the ship Montague, with wife, no children, `2 servant in NY & on Ship & arriving, only one servant in May & June. [Unit 7 is Peter Huggelford's unit.]

Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, ,p 214-215[Joshua Lamoreaux is not listed on the victualling list New York, only on the Canada lists. See entry for 1784 May & June. Also, Joshua had 8 children. Petitions in Canada say he is caring for 7 only.]

1783 Apr 11-16 NY to Canada Simon Losee leaves New York, Huntington Bay, Long Island "shoemaker, Long Island"

on board Union Transport, Consett Wilson arrives wife, Margaret Bush & 4 children over 10; 1 under 10 (Abigail) [He settled in Queens.]

New Brunswick Loyalist, Sharon Dubeau, Ontario, 19831783 May Simon Losee, wife Margaret Bush; 4 children over 10; 1 under 10 (Abigail), He was a

shoemaker from Long Island, NY, arrive in NB, Canada on the ship "Union". He settled in Queens. New Brunswick Loyalist, Sharon Dubeau, Ontario, 1983Simon "Loser/Losie?" unit "S" spring fleet, Family at New York, 1 adult male1 adult female, 4 children 10+, 2 children under 10, 0 servants. Family on arrival is the same. [They are not on list in May, June 1784.]

Early Loyalist St John, David G Bell, 1983: inter library loan 1997“…the ship ‘Union' which had the honor of leading the whole fleet carrying the Loyalist

settlers. After fourteen days at sea, they arrived at Partridge Island.”“A list completed on April 16, 1783 of the Return of the families who embarked on the ‘Union'

gives the names of the signers, their former place of abode, occupation and number of women, children and servants. Some of the signers being: …Burlock, … Losee, … In all 65 signers, 35 women, 107 children and 2 servants made the journey on board the Union.”

Cusack,Ruby, “Keeping Kingston Memories,” http://www.rubycusack.com/issue168.html

“At first incoming Refugees and Provincials were sheltered in small, half worn tents donated by the British military, but by the middle of summer they were at work on more substantial housing. A few months later the maze of tents had been largely replaced by 'numerous huts and houses scattered over the hills and rising grounds.' [i.e.]... wigwams, framed and log houses and wicker cottages."

"...exiles were dependent on British military for food... Some food and livestock were brought from New York... practically no food stuffs on sale at Saint John... also little game to be had...self sufficiency in food impossible... custodian of the nearly empty fort storehouse... reprehensible & vexatious... p 50-51

"[John] Beardsley & the Revd James Sayre were the only active Anglican ministers at St John during the first two years of the Loyalist era."

Early Loyalist Saint John, DG Bell, p 48-58 New Ireland Press, 1983.1783 July New Brunswick Josué Lamoraux, wife and 7 children (one not there) & nephews left New York

Canada Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoraux #271 & 273 & cover 20 Mar 1786

Memorials 20 Mar 1786 and 18 Jan 1787 St. John's. Claim: Services rendered. Rejected. (A013/21/271-273) - Special Publication #45, 1980, Nat Genealogical Soc.

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says "…beenCanada at St John Seventeen months …endeavor to procure a farm for the

support of a wife and seven children …house and effects burnt in the great Fire at Parr"

Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoraux"... Josue,[Lamoreaux] came to N.B. along with other loyalist Huguenot

families. From there he and his wife Elizabeth Ogden, with their seven children and two young nephews, moved on to Upper Canada and settled in Scarborough." P ?

“JOSUE L’AMOREAUX, founder of the L’Amoreaux settlement in the north western corner of Scarborough, …Josue, came to New Brunswick, along with other Loyalist Huguenot families. From there he and his wife, Elizabeth Ogden, with their seven children and two young nephews, moved on to Upper Canada and settled in Scarborough.

“Their sons Isaac and James had ten children apiece and our L’Amoreaux area soon developed into a vigorous Huguenot settlement. In 1817 a little log school was built,”

A History of Scarborough, Robert Bonis, 1965. P 46[This book has many fine details of life for the Loyalist, excellent source.]

1783 Summer NB, Canada Joshua Lamoreaux's New Brunswick Claim was rejected; says it was filed late.

Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoree1783 [Nov?] France First manned Balloon Flight1784 Mar 25 Deadline for receipt of Loyalist claims

National Geography Society Special #451784 Apr 19 Canada John’s father, Joshua’s family lived in lot #484 in Parrtown , Land draw date seems to be

on 19 Apr 1784 These lots were supposed to have been attained by a “draw”Film #859584, Mesa FHC , "Marianne Grey Otty Estate papers"

[This may be the earliest date we have for him in NB! He says he was there in July 1783. I want more detail]

"The smaller houses, 'shanties,' perhaps ten feet by eight feet and six feet high, had a roof of a single slope; the larger ones, 'log houses,' perhaps fifteen feet by twenty and nine feet high, sometimes had a peaked roof …At first the door might be a blanket or quilt or a couple of rough boards fitted with wooden hinges and locks. One or two tiny windows were covered with government-issued glass, oiled paper, or a sliding board. Sometimes there were no windows... Floors were at first dirt, then logs split in half. A small hole under some of the loose boards served as a root cellar.

"...lighting a fire was not easy;... Settlers worked to keep fires going permanently. Firewood needed at the rate of 5 or 6 cords per head per year, was readily available, but very expensive if purchased already cut because of labor and transportation costs.

"Fireplaces and wooden buildings were a constant fire hazard not only to the family but to the whole settlement." Victorious in Defeat, p 78-9, W Brown & H Senior, 1984

In the Marianne Grey Otty Estate papers I found several references to Joshua & Elizabeth Ogden Lamoreaux & family & Losee Family

I found Abigail & John Lamoreaux's marriage, 20 or 30 Mar 1805, Gage...I found Abigail & David Losee listed on page 34, and "James & Joshua Lumaree" listed on p39 as adults, no parents listed.

Film #859584, Mesa FHC , "Marianne Grey Otty Estate papers" #484 Joshua Lumaree 19 Apr 1784#921 James Lamoree 7 Apr 1784

Film #859584, Mesa FHC , "Marianne Grey Otty Estate papers" 1784 May St. John, NB Joshua Lamoreaux & nephews Daniel & Jesse are listed on the victualling list and June Canada in St. John. Joshua, unit 38, is listed with a wife, 5 children over 10, 2 under 10,

no servants. Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, ,p 214-215

1784 June St John, NB "The dangers of life in the woods were many. ... lost, treed by a bear, wounded Parrtown Canada by a slipped ax, or injured or killed by a falling limb or trunk. Burning, best JohnAbigailTmLnCreated by April Coleman 5/18/2009 update – printed 5/14/2023 Page 8 of 55


done fire on a calm day, made a 'brilliant spectacle,' but runaway

fires , such as that which devastated the mouth of the Saint John in June, 1784, were an ever present hazard.

Victorious in Defeat, p 77, W Brown & H Senior, 1984"Predictably there were destructive fires at an early date. Four occurred within a single week in June 1784, leaving dozens homeless: Halifax Gazette, July 13, 1784. One was called the 'Great Fire at Parr': Lamoreux to Governor, 16 Dec 1784: RS108, PANB. "

Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, p 50, footnote 86.1784 Summer New Brunswick, "Great Fire at Parr" 1784 petition says "Parr fire, last summer"

Parr, Canada Joshua Lamoreaux & family there. Their "possessions & records burnt"

1784 Dec 16 petition #128"...they lived in New Brunswick. They used to go fishing and they were boiling pitch and it caught fire and burned up every-thing they had. The old French Bible and all the papers they brought from France. My grandfather's name was James, ...He was one hundred and eleven years old when he died, ..."

Letter to Andrew J Lamoureux from Mrs A L Stock; [bolding is mine.]

a g-dau of James & Martha C Lamroux dated 12-16-1919Isabelle Cluff has a copy of both these letters.

Grand Bay, NB "... misfortune last summer to have house and effects burnt in the great Fire at Parr which obliged him to move his family to the Grand Bay where he finds there is a farm, #18 in Conway in Wm Bidle's Survey ..." [bolding is mine]

Loyalist Petition of Josue' Lamoree, #128 - Dec 16, 17841784 Dec 16 St John's, Joshua's Lamoree (Sr) writes petition; asks for lot #18 in Conway,

Kings, NB (a township across the river from St Johns NB) in McBrides Survey, if it is

vacant.(Conway), Petition, written Dec, 1784 Queens "To His Excellency Thomas Carleton Esq., Gov ... The Petition of Joshua Lamoreaux ---Grand Bay, NB “ Humbly showeth, that your petitioner has been at St John 17

months --- has used every decent endeavor to procure a farm for the support of a wife and seven Children but has never drew any. Had the misfortune last summer to have house and effects burnt in the

great Fire at Parr which obliged him to move his family to the Grand Bay [page 2] where he finds there is a farm, number eighteen in Conway in McBrides Survey - that has yet never been touched and the neighbors imagine has not been drawn or rejected as a bad farm.

Your Excellency’s petitioner prays said farm may be granted to him if it is vacant - and as in duty bound he will ever pray etc. , - [signed] Joshua Lamoree" [Bolding is mine]

Parr Dec 16, 1784 Loyalist Memorial of Josue' Lamoree, #128 - Dec 16, 1784 -

Memorials #128From: Dept of Natural Resource – Federation, New Brunswick, St

John’s Co. – 1785 Mar 15 New Br., Parr Simon Losee Petition #124 for land at McDibbles Survey1786 Mar 3 St. John, NB Joshua "Lamerrey" signed the Seditious Election Petition. This is signed,

not a “mark X.”Marks were listed for others. Peter Hugelford? wrote petition, signed by 327 St. John electors. Petition expresses extreme dissatisfaction with agencies in NB over lack of speed in dispersing land and provisions to Loyalist in NB.

Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, p 152-3[Many left St John & tried for land up river in the Gagetown area.]

1786 Mar 20 St Johns, NB Josue' Lamoreaux petitions for land at St Johns, NB states; - a memorial stating: Loyalist, left July 1783, Dutchess Co, NY,



Josue' Lamoree left New York "Resided at Duchess Co, NY ... was obliged to leave his property to the value of two hundred pounds New York currency in land and movable estate…

“... Beside services as a vollintear at the outpost with Col Dellincar (Delancy) was taken prisoner and wounded and very badly treated while with them But got exchanged and remained till the treaty of peace" He prays for land in compensation of his losses. [No specific land requested.] [I think Josue signed this one.]

“To the honorableLoyalist Petition of Josue' Lamoraux, [Bolding is mine] (#271) & 273 & cover, 20 Mar 1786

1786 Jul 25 Jimsag Creek, NB Simon Losee Petition #320 for land Spray"s Grant lot #2 & 31786-7 Canada "...Governor Carlton spent 2000 pounds to help groups made destitute by the Winter severe winter of 1786-7 and by the hailstorms of 1789 in the Saint John Valley."

Victorious in Defeat, p 85, W Brown & H Senior, 19841787 Jan 10 New Brunswick Joshua Lamoraux (Sr) Memorial #271 stating residence an addendum to #273 Kings Co Rejected See 20 Mar 1786

Loyalist Petition of Josue' Lamoraux #271 [I think he signed this one.]1787 Canada "...supplies and rations ended after three years and so a jolt was felt in 1787..."

Victorious in Defeat, p 73 W Brown & H Senior, 1984 1788 Reaman talks of “the hungry years of 1788” in Loyalist Canada.1789 Canada "...Governor Carlton spent 2000 pounds to help groups made destitute by the Winter severe winter of 1786-7 and by the hailstorms of 1789 in the Saint John Valley."

Victorious in Defeat, p 85, W Brown & H Senior, 19841791 NB, Canada Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux 4th child, Jemima Marries Archibald Wright

Records of Anglican Church in NB1792 Feb 7 Upper Canada "Simco issued a proclamation to those 'desirous to settle on the Lands of the

Crown in theProvince of Upper Canada.' Townships,... were to be surveyed... farm lots of 200 acres were available almost free to virtually anyone who would take an oath of allegiance to the king.... Late Loyalist swarmed in..."

Victorious in Defeat, p 64 W Brown & H Senior, 1984 1792 King's Co, NB Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux 3rd child, Jerusha (Rhoda) Marries Henry Earl

Records of Anglican Church in NB1793 Mar 13 Abigail Ann Losee is baptized “Born 1768 or 1788””Died: 1839 – Springfield,

Sangamon, Illinois – Father – Simon Losee – Mother Margaret Bush”Notes on a page from Walther Lamoreaux family records

1793 Mar 13 New Brunswick Abigail Ann Losee daughter of Simon Losee baptized, David son of Simon Losee

Waterborough is baptized,St John Anglican Church Records, GagetownAlso Film #859584, item 4, p 34

[David Losee, Abigail’s brother, is with John McCord Lamoreaux in Illinois 1849.]

1794 Feb 17 Gagetown, NB, James & Joshua Lumaree (adult persons) baptized, St John Anglican Church,Grand Lake, family of Josue' & Elizabeth Lamoreaux

Canada Records of Anglican Church in St John, Gage, NB

Also Film #859584, item 4, p 39Baptized James and Joshua, adult persons their surnames Lumaree

(now Lamoreux)"From records of Rev. Richard Clarke, first rector.” Isabelle

[First listing for Joshua Lamoreaux 's family on registers of St. John's Anglican Church of Gagetown, Queens Co., N.B.; baptisms & marriages]



1796 Feb 1 Gagetown, NB Josue' Lamoreaux (Sr) & sons; lists lots they intend to improve in the spring.

Grand Lakes, Q, Joshua Sr, #7; John, #22; Isaac, #23; New Brunswick Joshua Jr, #26; & James, #27; Daniel Waters,

#8; Grand Lakes Archibald Wright, #6; Millers on #17 & 25.

The petitions are for lots on Dibbles 1st Survey, Lamoreaux were all on unimproved lots.

Petition #558, Queens Co., this date1796 Feb 29 Grand Lake John [McCord] Lamoreaux & Isaac sons of Joshua & Elizabeth Ogden Lamoreaux

New Brunswick are baptized,St John Anglican Church RecAlso "From records of Rev. Richard Clarke, first rector.” Isabelle

Gagetown Records lists Isaac & John Lamoreaux - son of Josh & ElizMarrianne Grey Otty Records -LDS film #859584 - New Brunswick Records - St John - Estate Papers of M G Otty

[This would be our John McCord Lamoreaux – Why is he not listed on Joshua’s will?] [When moving to a new area, sometimes the children were re-baptized to show they belonged to the faith. Also sometimes there was no minister in the area they came from so when they got to an area with a minister the entire family took advantage of it and were all baptized.]

1796 May 20 New Brunswick Simon Losee Petition #566 for land in "Queens Co, WaterBorrough" his signature

Jimsag Creek attached, map attached1797 Mar 6 New Brunswick Andrew "ye son of Joshua & Elisha Lummereux” baptized,

Grand Lake St John Anglican Church RecAlso - Marrianne Grey Otty Records, Film #859584, item 4, book c, p

5Grand Lake, NB Joshua Jr., Josue' & Elizabeth Lamoreaux 5th child, Married Ann

Cross St John Anglican Church, Gagetown, NB (No parents nor witness listed)

Records of Anglican Church in NBFamily Records & Archive Record - Also found in film #859584And - Gagetown Anglican Church Records (marriages) F1140-F1141 1786-1911

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nbpast/Church/gage-ang-m.htm Baptised, Andrew, ye son of Joshua and Elisha. (Elizabeth Ogden)

Lummereux Married the same day: Joshua Lummereux and Anne Cross (no parents or witnesses recorded)

"From records of Rev. Richard Clarke, first rector. Isabelle1798 Canada Marriage Act of 1798 extended the right of performing marriages to

Lutherans, Calvinists & Church of Scotland as well as Anglican & Catholics who already had rights.

Victorious in Defeat, p 164 W Brown & H Senior, 1984 1801 Jan 21 New Brunswick John Lamoreaux, Isaac & Joshua (Jr) & others (Terrill & Miller) sign a complaint Queens Co against Aaron Allen at Grand Lakes, Queens concerning him settling wild meadows, Grandlake property forbidden at Salmon Bay at the head of Grand Lake.

Memorial #6021802 Mar 8 Jimsag Creek, Losee & Burlock (David) Petition for land, four families

New Brunswick Source? Petition?1805 May 30 Gagetown, NB John McCord Lamoureux marries Abigail Ann Losee also her sister Margaret married Norman Harvey this year. St John Anglican Church

New Brunswick Loyalist, Sharon Dubeau - Ontario, 1983also in Records of Anglican Church in NB Gage - see also Film

#859584 Married, John Lammereux and Abigail Losee (no parents mentioned)

"From records of Rev. Richard Clarke, first rector,” Isabelle “John Lammereux - Abigail Losee”

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(marriages) F1140-F1141 1786-1911 http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nbpast/Church/gage-ang-m.htm

[30 May 1805 - Last record of any one of the Josue' & Elizabeth Lamoreaux family in St John's Anglican Church of Gagetown, Queens Co., NB. – they went to Ontario shortly after this.]

1806 Nov 20 New Brunswick, Susan Ann Lamoreaux daughter of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee Canada is born [Later Marries Jaciethe Brunelle.]

Family Group Record

Ontario, Canada – Upper Canada[NOTE: The early Ontario records are listed as being in Upper Canada.

I use Ontario to simplify things. Pickering, now called Scarborough, is now part of Toronto.]

"CROWN LAND GRANTS... free grants of Crown land were made to numerous military claimants, government officials, United Empire Loyalists, and other settlers in Scarborough.

"The basic features of the land-granting system in Upper Canada were set forth by Governor Simcoe on Feb. 7, 1792, in a Proclamation addressed to 'such as are desirous to settle on Lands of the Crown in the Province of Upper Canada.' Any person might apply for a farm lot of 200 acres, and at the discretion of the government he might be granted additional land up to 1,000 acres. Such grants were made free of all expenses, except for small fees payable to the government officials through whose hands the patent passed before it was completed and recorded. U.E. Loyalists and military claimants were, of course, exempt from payment of these fees, and enjoyed further special consideration. The sons and daughters of Loyalists were entitled to free grants of 200 acres apiece, ... Later the free grants to Loyalists were limited to those who were resident in the Province by July 28, 1798..."

"Petitioners for land had to give assurances that they would actually settle upon and improve their grants. After taking the oath of allegiance, a grantee received a Location Ticket, which described the position of his lot in the township by number and concession,..." p 288

Before full title could be had proof of improvements and fees had to be presented. This sometimes took time. "...in the list of original patentees of land in Scarborough, the date given for the patenting of a lot by a settler is usually somewhat later than the time of his actual arrival in the township." Location tickets were sometimes acquired and sold by speculators. "Two sevenths of the land was tied up in Clergy and Crown Reserves, and did not become available for ownership by actual settlers for a long time. …every seventh lot in the township was reserved for the support of a Protestant clergy ... some were leased by early settlers; and eventually they were able to purchase them outright." P 289

“Accordingly, it should be remembered that the list of original patentees of land in Scarborough the date given for the patenting of a lot by a settler is usually somewhat later than the time of his actual arrival in the township. It should also be noted that, while location tickets did not give legal title, land transitions based only on them often place before fees were paid and patents issued. Many lots changed hands several times in this fashion, so that in the list of patentees the name of the original grantee does not appear.

Many… early land speculators… absentee owners… lots often remained unoccupied for years until they could be sold to genuine settlers.

A History of Scarborough, Robert Bonis, 1965. P 288-9"... the Loyalist moved about frequently, especially in the early years."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 31-32John Simco, "made food available for the new arrivals, and building materials and tools:

'nails, hammers, gimlets, plains, chizzels, gouges, hinges, iron rimmed locks, padlocks, handsaws, ... And ... it was promised that the children of the settlers would be given sizable stakes of land of their own as soon as they came of age." Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984

"During the first thirty years, elementary and secondary education was primitive. The majority of the Loyalist children received little or none, other than what might be provided at home."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 106"The embarkation point for the Loyalist bound for the Upper St Lawrence and the Bay of

Quinte [Toronto is abt 125 mi west on lake Ontario; Pickering, 100 mi west.] was Lachine, near Montreal. The route was navigable, but only with difficulty. From Lake Ontario to Montreal the river drops 225 feet in 190 miles, creating 120 miles of rapids, chiefly the Long Sault, the Galop, & the Beauharnois. The Sault rapids, dropping 45 feet in 9 miles.

"Passengers boarded Lachine-built bateaux, boats specifically constructed for the rapid-strewn river, weighing 2 ton,... 24 to 40 feet long, ... pointed at each end, flat-bottomed for a shallow


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draft of 3 or 4 feet,... Four or five families and their modest belongings... 'Brigades' of ten or 12 bateaux... traveled together... At the rapids, passengers alighted with their valuables and the bateaux were poled and dragged... Progress could average 18 miles a day, hence the trip from Montreal to Kingston could be done in 10 days, but it might stretch into a month. At night the company usually went ashore and slept in tents... Always the journey could become unpleasant or dangerous from plagues of insects, rough accommodation, bad weather, and hazardous water."

Victorious in Defeat, p. 46-47An interesting story of life in Canada, told about Martha Lamoreaux Patton: “…came out to Canada settling somewhere around Toronto. They evidently had a maple

sugar farm after awhile and she used to tell me stories about the big house parties they had with several families staying over the weekend. They had big horse drawn sleighs and would go for outing through the snow. One day a representative from France came out and asked to see any proof they had of the property they had left in France and it would appear that it turned out to be right in the center of the city of Paris. He persuaded them to give the papers all to him and he was to return to France and present their claim to their property.

“Needless to say that was the last they ever heard from him or anyone else.” From an email written by Betty Lorraine Patton Phillips to her son, Lynn, shared with April Coleman by her daughter-in-law, Cheryl Cross Phillips, of Ottawa, Ontario Feb 2003.

“They agreed to give this French official the document that showed their ownership of the property in France (my mother-in law would say, of course there were no photocopiers then) and it was agreed that he was supposed to come back, I assumed it was with the money from the sale of the property. They waited for him to return and he never came back and they always wondered if something had happened to him on voyage or if he had embezzled the money.”

“I know that Martha Lamoreaux's mother was a Martha Cross. The name Cross interested me because my maiden name was Cross and it was interesting to know that my husband's great great grandmother was a Cross and the other Lamoreaux brother was married to Anne Cross who was Martha's sister. My parents also were two brothers marrying two sisters. Then I noticed Cross again when Andrew Jackson Lamoreaux married Sarah Cross. I did not think it was that common a name.

“Martha lived in Picton, now called Scarborough. Interesting that there is a Lamoreaux park and community center, likely named after the early settlers in Scarborough”

Email from Cheryl Cross Phillips, of Ottawa, Ontario, Feb 2003.

[What records did they have?]

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADAThe district comprised in S. S. No. 1 (the north-easterly part of the township) is

known as the L’Amoreaux Settlement, a family of that name having early settled in this locality, on lots 33 and 31, on the 4th concession, and lots 33, on the 3rd concession. The venerable Rev. Dr. Scadding conducted religious services in this settlement in its early days.

[Early occupations or entertainments listed are] …flax-grower… It was scutched, heckled and spun here in primitive methods, being chiefly made into bags, mattresses and ropes. …Straw-plaiting was a favorite occupation among the women in the early days. Thirty yards made a good hat. …”The modern craze for church parties was totally unknown in the early days. Churches then were used solely for devotional purposes…”

The Township Of Scarboro, 1796-1896, Edited by David Boyle “… Zion Public School was the second school built in what is now the Township of

North York. … It stands near the corner of Finch Ave. and Leslie St, looking very much as it did when it was the pride of L’Amoreaux (as the district was then known). The big beautiful pine trees were not there then. And the belfry is empty of its big bell.

“…The previous school had been a stone structure, with one very small room, immediately north of the present school, on Lot 21, which is now being developed as a subdivision.

“… The L’Amoreaux Post Office and L’Amoureaux General Store were the gathering places of the community. The store had its cracker barrel, pickle barrel, supplies of all kinds, including clothing for the whole family, pot-bellied stove and cupsidors.

“About once a month, the residents of L’Amoreaux would make the long journey to Yonge Street and proceed as far south as Lansing. There they would visit Ben Brown’s General Store (now Dempsey’s Hardware): Bestard, the harness maker; and, perhaps, the Schmidt mill on Steels Avenue at Bayview. They traveled by horse and cart or, if they had no load, walked the four miles to Yonge Street”

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1808 Ontario “That your petitioner [John Lamoreaux] is a natural born subject of His Majesty

and removed from New Brunswick to this Province in the year 1808.” John Lamoreaux second Petition for land in York, 1 October 1831[bolding is mine.]

1809 bef Jan Ontario Josue' & Elizabeth Lamoreaux 6 sons + daughters settled in Scarborough

Upper Canada John McCord Lamoreaux & 3 brothers "ascended" St John & St. Lawrence

Rivers to Lake Ontario & on to Pickering & inland. "Joshua Jr. at least remained at Grand Bay

until 1809, during which time he was married to Annie Cross of St John, & his brother James was married to Martha Cross, prob a sister.

“My grandmother Hester, was born at Grand Bay or Grand Lake as she used to call it. She lived with us when I a child used to talk about her life on the bank of the river. She was born July 10, 1801. In 1809 the four brothers, James, John, Joshua Jr, and Isaac left Grand Lake, ascended the St John River, came across the portage at its head to the St Lawrence, ascended the St Lawrence River to Lake Ontario and came west on Lake Ontario to Pickering. From there they went inland..." [Travel was usually done in winter on frozen rivers. This doesn't sound like it was.]

Letter to Harold D L'Amoureux from A J Lamoureux 15 Jan 1921 1809 Jan 5 Scarborough, John Lamoree witness; Joshua buys land (lot #33, concession 3; York, Ontario, Upper Canada 88 & 1/2 acres for 50 pounds

Memorial #1243 dated 1809 Jan 5

1809 Jan 9 Scarborough Joshua Lamoreaux buys land from Asa Patrick; 88 & 1/2 acres, northern part of

33lot 3rd concession for 50 pounds "indenture of sale" memorial #1243 [see Apr 1828] Old York Deeds for Jan 5 or 9,1809

January 1809 – Memorial to buy Land in OntarioJoshua Lamoree & John Lamoree

Note on bottom of page “On file at the now City Hall, TorontoFirst land record of our Lamoreauxs after arriving in Ontario” written by Isabelle Cluff

“A Memorial to be registered pursuant to an Act of the Provincial Parliament of Upper Canada in such case made and provided of an Indenture being dated the fourth of January in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and nine and made between ?Asa Patrick of the Township of Scarborough and county York and Home District and Province afore stated yeoman on the one part and Joshua Lamoree of the same place, Yeoman on the other part by – which said indenture the said ?Asa Patrick for and in consideration of the sum of fifty pound Lawful Money of said province of Upper Canada To him in land [hand?] paid buy the said Joshua Lamoree The receipt Whereof is therein acknowledged hath Granted bargained sold Released and Conveyed unto the said Joshua Lamoree his heirs and assigned for Ever all that certain tract or Parcel of Land laying and situated in the Township of Scarborough in county of York in the Home District Containing Eighty-Eight acres & a Half more of less being the northerly part of lot number thirty three in this? concession of the Township of Scarborough which said tract or parcel of Land tulled? And bounded or may be otherwise known as follows that is to say commencing at a post planted on the line between Lot number thirty two and thirty three then North sixteen degrees west forty-nine chains Twenty fence link to the Line of the forth con Cession then south twenty four degrees west

[new page Note on bottom of page: Jan 4, 1809]It was on this property that St. Paul’s L’Amoureux Anglican Church was later

built.” West twenty chains then south sixteen degrees East – forty nine chains and twenty five links then North twenty four degrees east twenty chains to the place of beginning to have and to hold the said Premises and Tract of Land with the Appurtenames there unto belonging and every part and parcel thereof to him the said Joshua Lamoree his heirs and assigns for Ever To the only properane benefit and behoof of him the said Joshua Lamoree his heirs and assigns forever and Which said Indenture is Witnessed at [hand writing is smaller on the next two lines.] York by Daniel Horrick and John Lamoree Both of the Township of Scarborough, yeomen Hereby required to be Negslord by the said Joshua Lamoree the grantee in the said



“Indenture me Notioned witness my hand and seal this four Day of January in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and nine. ___________ his Signed sealed and delivered / Joshua X Lamoree - mark

In presence of Us Daniel Horrick - John Lamoree - proved before me the 5 January 1809

TRideat - Ref of York - Daniel Horrick[The pages are stamped on the back “Ontario Archives – Toronto [with a paragraph ]

Cover of this Indenture says: Scarobro Memorial No 1243 Asa Patrick To Joshua Lamoree C Fan Indenture of Bargain And sale Registered in the Register Office County of York On the Fourteenth day of January One thousand Eight Hundred and Nine at noon. Libes E W? or ELb Folio 007.808.809 - Numb 1243 ELb The Redout Rep”

1809 Canada James Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee is born.

Dies as an infant Family Group Record

1810 May 19 Ontario Isaac Lamoree served on a jury Saturday 1932 Report of Dept. of Public Rec & Archives of Ontario

Alexander Fraser, pp 164, 1651810 July 11 Ontario Joshua & Isaac Lamoree serve on same petit jury [My Joshua Sr or Jr?]

1932 Report of Dept. of Public Rec & Archives of OntarioAlexander Fraser, pp 164, 165

1812 Oct 17 Ontario, Canada Andrew Losee Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee is born.

Family Group Record 1812 Nov 23 Scarborough John Mc Lamoreaux memorial wants "200 acres of waste lands"

“The petition of John Lamoreaux of Pickering born in the State of New York and aged 33 years humbly sheweth your petitioner is the son of A loilest [loyalist ] [Josué] who joined The British Standard in the year 1775 and remained in his Majesty’s dominions ever since that your petitioner never receiving land or order for land from the Crown Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays you will be pleased to grant him two hundred acres of waste lands of the Crown by discharge of the usual fees . –

and is duty bound Will ever prayYork November 23th 1812 John Lamoreaux”

[Note in a different handwriting with this document:“This is to certify that I am acquainted with the Bearer, John Lamoreaux,

and believe him to be a Good and Loyal Subject to the Crown of Great Brittain [Britain] .York 23rd November 1812 Thos Hamilton”

John Mc Lamoreaux memorial of 23 Nov 1812 [I have copy. akrc][See Oct 1831 for further petitions about John & land]

“That in the year 1812 he petitioned for a grant of land, as a Settler, but the petition does not appear to have been ever acted upon.

John Lamoreaux second Petition for land in York, 1 October 1831“After the American Revolution, several thousand families came to settle in the

western part of Quebec, later called Upper Canada, then Canada West and today Ontario. These settlers were former members of American Loyalist regiments, discharged British and German servicemen, and some civilians and refugees. They were offered grants of 200 acres of land on condition that they take an oath of allegiance and remain loyal to the British regime. The military and Loyalist arrivals who had come earlier received larger grants, generally in relation to their services to the Crown, their rank or status, and family size.”

“All settlers received certificates showing the location of the lots on which they were to clear land and build houses. First, however, it was necessary to establish who had the right to obtain title deeds, and in 1796 a proclamation was issued that required Loyalists and others to surrender their certificates in exchange for title deeds and to make a statement under oath in the district court as to their right to hold them. ....more”

Ontario People, 1796 – 1803. E. Keith Fitzgeraldhttp://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html [an add for the book]

[Upper Canada opened up to others, ie descendents of Loyalists.]


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1812 War of ??? Canada Canada was in the War of 1812? Is this the WAR talked of in this petition?

What accident? When? Where? Sometime after 1808 John Lamoreaux was in a war - War of 1812?

“ The Petition of John Lamoreaux of Scarborough, a Loyalist in the late 3 20

or 300 Regiment of York Militia “That, by a Surgeon’s Certificate, your petitioner [John McCord

Lamoreaux] was exempted from serving in the militia during the late war, in consequence of an accident, but your petitioner, did not, however, avail himself of the exemption, but served during great parts of the war. That he was frequently employed during the war in hunting up and apprehending Militia Desarters [deserters], and served faithfully on such duty, as appears by the annexed certificate of Wm Cheweath[?] Esquire, and of the Honorable Wm Allan, then Colonel and Mayor of the York Militia. That your petitioner took several deserters in the course of the War, and brought them to the governor of York, where they were tried, and punished, and your petitioner has reason to believe that his vigilance and zeal in this service had the effect of deterring many others from dissenting. That in this service your petitioner’s life was often very much endangered, some of the dissenters being desperate men and making violent resistance, particularly on one occasion, when he was actually thrown upon a fire, with a loaded pistol and half a pound of gun powder in his pocket; and had not the war terminated favorably, your petitioner, from having by the above mentioned service, made himself many enemies among the friends of the dissenters he apprehended, and the disaffected persons of his neighborhood, he would have undoubtedly have had to leave the country.

John Lamoreaux second Petition for land in York, 1 October 18311815 Sep 20 Ontario, Canada Archibald Wright Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee is born.

Family Group Record 1815 Nov 27 Ontario, York, C Jos? Lamoroux memorial Scarborough

“York 27th Nov 1815Thereby certify, that John Lamoray’s Serjent [sic-Sergeant] of the

Scarborough Company of the 3rd Regiment York Militia, has served faithfully, and diligently during the whole course of the late War, and that there is no impress against his name.

W Chewith Lt Colt, Reamdg 3rd Regt Yk Mitilia To All to whom It may concern }I certify that Sergt Lamoraye was physically Employed in apprehending Dissenters from themboasia Militia and was faithful in that duty, which he often performed without any compensation whatsoever.York 27 Nov 1815, W All Am [??], Majms Rep t [??], York Militia”

From a copy of the original petition1815?abt Far Pacific Volcano erupts in far Pacific [Philippines? I think] Dark clouds of ash are seen half way

around the globe effecting weather everywhere.Source: Video on volcanoes (get bib. info)

1815/6 ? Coldest winter ever [Because of volcanic ash in air.?]Source: Video on volcanoes

1816 “The Year Without a Summer. Unusually cold weather froze lakes and forced people to wear

their winter woolies in July.” Hugh Westrup. History, Facts you won’t Believe. 1999, Scholastic.

1816 Jan 10 Upper Canada John Mc & Isaac Lamoreaux memorial Scarborough, Ontario L20 to be paid to the King,

Scarborough rent for lot 34 concession 3Rent Indenture for this date

1817 Mar 5 Ontario, Canada Henry Earl Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee is born

Family Group Record 1817 Mar 14&26 Scarborough Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman & son Isaac ask to lease clergy reserve (lot 33 concession 4)

this borders on land Joshua already owns. Says he has been in Upper Canada since 1809.



Memorial #53 p222Clergy Lots were originally set out every seventh lot "reserved for the

clergy". These lots could be leased by citizens. Eventually several churches argued over who owned the lots so the government sold the lots. Joshua's sons John & Andrew seem to have bought one.

1817 Jul 3 Canada Joshua Lamoureux's will writtenScarborough "I, Joshua Lamoree ... the Elder Yeoman" will to my eldest son, James, $50; son Joshua $50;Ontario eldest dau Susanna Waters, widow, $50; dau Jerusha, wife of Henry

Earl, of NB, $50;dau Jemima wife of Archibald Wright of York, $50; son Isaac land in Scarborough, lots 32 &33 cons 3 (90 acres) and personal estate; recorded 27 Sept 1830 [His mark] [What about John?]

Will of Joshua Lamoree #7585; p 588, 589[No mention of wife Elizabeth, she was probably dead at the time of writing of will.] [No mention of son John, did he fall from favor or already have his inheritance at the time of writing of will? No mention of son Andrew, did he die before this?]

1817 Dec 30 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman memorial to lease lot 33 in 4th

Scarborough concession Clergy Lot*Source? Land Records? Or will?

1819 Sep 20 Ontario, Canada David Burlock Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee is born.

Family Group Record 1820 June 5 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman lease lot 33; 4th concession Clergy Lot* as he owns land

Scarborough next to it he wants to lease Source? Land Records? Or will?

1821 Jan 18 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman memorial to lease lot 33 in 4th concession Clergy Lot*

Scarborough Source? Land Records? Or will?1821 Feb 3 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman memorial to lease lot 33 in 4th concession Clergy Lot*

Scarborough Source? Land Records? Or will?1821 Mar 18 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman and Isaac memorial to renew lease on clergy reserve, lot 33 Scarborough in 4th concession in Scarborough Clergy Lot* Later that year they lease it to Isaac Christy who

continues to lease it from them until 1828. The clergy reserve came up for sale in that year and Isaac Christy buys it. Andrew & John Lamoreaux sign the contract saying that Joshua Lamoreaux was the original improver of the land.

Memorial?? #222 Source? Land Records? Or will?1821 or 1817 Ontario, Josue' Lamoreaux’s will is proved. [NOT proved till 1828 - ?Recorded?] Lists "eldest son James;

Upper Canada eldest daughter Susanna Waters, widow; Dau's Jerusha Earl, & Jemima Wright; son Isaac"

[No son John listed.]The Will of Joshua Lamoreaux

"Joshua Sr spent last years with [son, & dau-in-law] Isaac & Nancy Ann Lamoreaux in Markham,

Ontario," indicating that Elisabeth has proceeded him. His will does not mention a wife; leaves all to children. John was also not mentioned.

[from Isabelle][Why wasn't John McCord Lamoreaux mentioned in the will? He was listed son of Josué & Elizabeth Ogden Lamoreaux in his marriage record in NB in 1796.][Some of the Joshua records are signed; some say the mark of…Maybe my Josué Lamoreaux could read & write but his son Joshua couldn’t. Or visa versa??? It is hard to tell them apart.]

1824 Dec 25 Scarborough Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman sells to Isaac Charity something for 5 shillings

[Who is this? Probably My Joshua Lamoreaux [Sr} had a will recorded in 1821! proved? JohnAbigailTmLnCreated by April Coleman 5/18/2009 update – printed 5/14/2023 Page 17 of 55


1830?]

1824 Aug 5 Ontario Susan Anne Lamoreaux marries Jacinth Brunelle – witnessed by her father, Jacob Lamoreaux,

and by Archibald Wright: Ontario Historical Society Papers Vol 27 1931, p 15 "Marriages of Rev William Jenkins, Richmond Hill, Ontario" pg 134 lists: Jessam Brownell and Susan Anne Lumerii married 5 Aug 1824 (published by banns. Witnesses: Jacob Lumerii (Lamoreaux) and Archibald Wright

Ontario Historical Society Papers, found by Isabelle Cluff (added 2002)

(also Online at: http://www.tbaytel.net/bmartin/jenkins.htm )Susan ANNE b:1806 is usually shown with husband #1 as Jacinth Brunelle married in 1824 and having 7 children (my ancestor being Elizabeth), and husband #2 as Marcellus McKowen and having 3 children.

Notes from Max L Anderson rec’d Dec 2002

1825 Dec 18 Scarborough Petition: Joshua Lameree [X] [a mark after the name which is spelled wrong.[Joshua Lamoreaux Jr has several signatures with marks[X] The last one I know of is from Ohio in 1843.]

“To his Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland? Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper

Canada …The Petition of Joshua Lamereaux of the Township of Scarborough Y…Humbely ShowethThat your Petitioneer is a native of New Brunswick, has resided in this Province 17

years, [since 1808] and served in the Militia during the late war. That our petitionee gratefully acknowledges the grant of 100 acres of land which he improved, For which a patent has … That having a large family of a wife and 10 children, and ….[Signed] Joshua Lameree X”

Canada Land Petitions (R G 1 L 3, vol 290, l14/124)Petition of Joshua Lamereaux: Public Archives of Canada

“The Scarborough Historical Society erected a plaque mounted on a memorial stone cairn topped with the original St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux copper bell. The bronze plaque reads: St Paul’s Church, Lamoreaux 1840-1935. In 1808 Josué L’Amoreaux, a Loyalist of Huguenot descent who had fled New York to New Brunswick at the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, settled here in Scarborough on Lot 33, Concession 3.” Page 8-9 [A fire burned the original building in 1935.]

Carl W Smith, “A Line Of Descent, French Huguenot Émigré, Andre’ Lamoreaux”1828 Feb 23 Ontario John McCord Lamoreaux & Andrew (son of Isaac) - memorial to buy land lot33 in 4th

Scarborough concession Clergy Lot* This year Isaac Christy buys this lot and John & Andrew sign the contract saying that Joshua was the original improver of the land.

I have a copy of the petition - #222?*Clergy Lots were originally set out every seventh lot "reserved for the

clergy". These lots could be leased by citizens. Eventually several churches argued over who owned the lots so the government sold the lots. Joshua's sons John & Andrew seem to have bought one.

"Loyalist Canada was not particularly spiritual but it was a church-going society characterized by self-help and community effort, even among Anglicans and Catholics who possessed a pre-existing organization. Early settlers often relied on family prayers or a simple gathering in a barn or neighbor's house for bible reading.

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 1081828 Apr 12 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman buys or sells land from/to Asa Patrick; 88½ acres, northern

Scarborough part of 33 lot 3rd concession for 44 pounds [Transaction drawn up in 1828, not enacted till 10 Aug 1831memorial "indenture of sale" #8128

1828 Sep 2 Scarborough Isaac Charity buys land originally taken by Joshua Lamoreaux [see 1821 Mar 18] Isabelle Cluff notes on PetitionsJohnAbigailTmLnCreated by April Coleman 5/18/2009 update – printed 5/14/2023 Page 18 of 55


1830 Sept 27 Ontario, York Joshua Lamoree (Sr) will proved at York, York Co., by his son Isaac.

York Co. Will had been drawn up 13 years earlier (3 July 1817) and Mentions lots #32 & #33 concession 3 of Scarborough (about 20 or 90 acres). Names Isaac Lamoreaux, his son, as heir of this property.

Will of Joshua LamoreauxNotes by Isabelle says abt 20 acres

Joshua Lamoreaux Sr spent his last years with his son Isaac in MarkhamLetter from J.B. Tyrell to Isabelle [see 1821 or 1817 entry]

1831 Aug 10 Ontario Asa Patrick buys land signed by Isaac L.[amoreauc] memorial #l8128 See 1828 Apr 12 [see 1828 Apr 12]

1831 Oct 1, 6, 13 York John Lamoreaux second Petition for land in York “To His Excellency Sir John Colbourne H.C.B. [or MCB or etc] Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada Major General Commanding His Majesties Forces therein etc… etc… etc…

“ The Petition of John Lamoreaux of Scarborough, a Loyalist in the late 3 20

or 300 Regiment of York Militia“Humbly Showeth

“That your petitioner is a natural born subject of His Majesty and removed from New Brunswick to this Province in the year 1808. –

“That in the year 1812 he petitioned for a grant of land, as a Settler, but the petition does not appear to have been ever acted upon.

“That, by a Surgeon’s Certificate, your petitioner was exempted from serving in the militia during the late war, in consequence of an accident, but your petitioner, did not, however, avail himself of the exemption, but served during great parts of the war. That he was frequently employed during the war in hunting up and apprehending Militia Desarters [deserters], and served faithfully on such duty, as appears by the annexed certificate of Wm Cheweath[?] Esquire, and of the Honorable Wm Allan, then Colonel and Mayor of the York Militia. That your petitioner took several deserters in the course of the War, and brought them to the governor of York, where they were tried, and punished, and your petitioner has reason to believe that his vigilance and zeal in this service had the effect of deterring many others from dissenting. That in this service your petitioner’s life was often very much endangered, some of the dissenters being desperate men and making violent resistance, particularly on one occasion, when he was actually thrown upon a fire, with a loaded pistol and half a pound of gun powder in his pocket; and had not the war terminated favorably, your petitioner, from having by the above mentioned service, made himself many enemies among the friends of the dissenters he apprehended, and the disaffected persons of his neighborhood, he would have undoubtedly have had to leave the country.

“That your petitioner having a large family and never having received any grant of land; and in the hope that Your Excellency will consider his Services in the late war worthy of favorable consideration, humbly prays Your Excellency will be pleased to extend to him the Royal Bounty of 200 acres of Militia Land as a ?Serjent [Sargent?] employed on special service during said war. ______

“And your petitioner will ever ?fordy or fosay? _____ John LamoreauxYork 1 October 1831

John Lamoreaux second Petition for land in York, 1 October 1831 [I have copy and my transcription. Bolding is mine. akrc]

[Note on cover letter of petition says: “I do not find that the petitioner [John Lamoreaux] has received any land,

either in payment of fees as a settler nor for his services during the late War. His former Petitions referred to by Your Excellency does not appear to have reached this office.” Dated 5 October 1831

John Lamoreaux second Petition for land in York, 1 October 1831 [1831 October 1 York - A Memorial or petition of John Lamoreaux, dated 1831, referring to the former petition.3 pages ][1831 Oct 5, 6 & 13, York - seems to be the cover page for the last 3 pages [+ annex] with dates & notes of what is being done about the petition. one page ][See 23 Nov 1812 for first petition.][ war of 1812? –What accident? York Militia so it must have been after 1808.] [Did John McCord Lamoreaux receive land in York in 1831? He left in 1837. akrc]



"Loyalist Canada was not particularly spiritual but it was a church-going society characterized by self-help and community effort, even among Anglicans and Catholics who possessed a pre-existing organization. Early settlers often relied on family prayers or a simple gathering in a barn or neighbor's house for bible reading.

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 1081833-4 Scarborough “…Jason Brunelle, by birth a Canadian Frenchman, had married a daughter of John Lamoreaux

and was living in the township of Scarborough, belonged to the Methodist Church, and were prosperous farmers. I worked for Brunelle two years, attended the Methodist meetings, but did not attach myself to any religious denomination.”

James Leithead, "Short Sketch of the Life and Labors of James Leithead"Note: Did John McCord Lamoreaux family attend Methodist also?

1835 & 1836 James Leithead writes, “ In 1835, I married Deborah, the daughter of Joshua and Ann Cross

Lamoreaux, and commenced clearing the timber from about sixty four acres of land built a house and barn and cleared timber from 15 acres the first year. In 1836 were born twins to us. Both were girls and both died in infancy.”

James Leithead, "Short Sketch of the Life and Labors of James Leithead"

1836 April Ontario Parley P. Pratt mission to... Canada; preaches to John Taylor & Fielding Family [& Lamoreaux]

Scarborough Autobiography of Parley P Pratt“…Apostle Heber C Kimball blessed Parley [P. Pratt] “…he would go to Toronto and there ‘find a people prepared for the fullness of the gospel, and they shall receive thee,’” Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p157

1836 May? Parley P. Pratt returns to business there ... in Kirtland, OhioAutobiography of Parley P Pratt

1836 June Ontario Parley P. Pratt returns to...Canada, preaches to John Lamoreaux, wife, children & 100 neighbors

Scarborough Autobiography of P.P. Pratt"Loyalist Canada was not particularly spiritual but it was a church-going

society characterized by self-help and community effort, even among Anglicans and Catholics who possessed a pre-existing organization. Early settlers often relied on family prayers or a simple gathering in a barn or neighbor's house for bible reading.

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 108 [bolding is mine.]

John McCord Lamoreux Family Join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints“About seven miles from this place lived a merchant by the name of [ John

McCord] Lamareux, who was a man of extended thought and general information; he sometimes preached or lectured to the people. This man, on hearing the strange reports of what was going on, sent for me. I visited him on a day appointed; he had shut up his store, suspended all business, dressed in his best, and prepared a dinner, while at the same time a general meeting of the people was convening in his large barn. He received us cordially, and after dinner accompanied us to the barn, where there was indeed, a crowd of some hundreds of anxious listeners. We preached; after which the old merchant exclaimed to the meeting, that if this was Mormonism he was a Mormon.

“He pressed us to tarry a few days, or rather go with him, to which we consented. So, next morning he furnished a horse and saddle for himself, and another for me. We mounted – he leading the way. We traveled through a fine settled country of villages and farms, where I had never been before, and where they were strangers to “Mormonism” and to me, but well acquainted with him.

“As we went, he preached, saying to every man he met, and even crying aloud to those at a distance, and as we halted in each little village:

“’Hear ye, my friends, the kingdom of Heaven is restored again to man, with the gospel in it’s ancient fullness and power. Turn out and hear this stranger who is with me, and do not gainsay him, for I testify to you that the sick are healed, the



eyes of the blind are opened, and devils are cast out under his hand in the name of Jesus. And if you do not believe it we can give you names and particulars, and prove it by scores and hundreds of witnesses.”

“The more I tried to keep him still the more he proclaimed these things.“Leaving a chain of appointments, we traveled as far as Scarborough, and,

preaching there, we returned the next day and filled the chain of appointments given out the day before. The excitement now became general, and a very learned clergyman,… announced himself as the peoples chosen champion to meet us in public debate and put us down, or receive our doctrine,…

“A public discussion was at last agreed upon, to be held a few weeks hence in the open air, as no building would hold the people. …The meeting t length came off. Thousands attended, and listened with patience. Elder O. Hyde, …took up the matter, as I was unavoidably engaged elsewhere.”

“Thus, after a few hours of shuffling and trickery on the part of the opposition, and a few vain attempts to introduce the poisonous slanders which so often prevail in blinding the public mind, they were utterly silenced.

“Elder Hyde then proceeded to address the vast assemblage at considerable length, congratulating them on the triumph of truth,… but the truth grew and prevailed.”

Autobiography of P.P.Pratt, page 155

1836 Summer Scarborough John Lamoreaux, Abigail & older children ask for baptism in LDS Church Autobiography of P.P. Pratt

[The following is a quote from Edith Ivans Lamoreaux’s pamphlet, “Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux.” Written about 1940?? She listened to David tell these stories so they do have validity as to the content. She would know the name of their horse, the personalities and loyalties of the participants, and other personal facts. However, there are many inconsistencies in the narrative. I have put my notes in italics in brackets through out this quote.]

“Two boys, David and Andrew Lamoreaux, sat on the rickety seat of an old delivery rig, discussing earnestly a new venture just come into their lives. David, the driver, slapped the lines vigorously on the back of old Toby, for promptness in delivery was a hobby of the father of these two. The discussion on the subject of religion was very exciting to these boys. ‘I’m sure,’ said Andrew, the older, ‘If we accept baptism with the rest of the family as father urges, we’ll be ostracized by all friends but I don’t care. I knew it was the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the same as existed in the earlier days, as we read of in the Bible, as I listened to those Elders preaching it. And I’m willing to risk everything in life for it!” David acquiesced assuringly. David was a quiet, retiring lad, always backward in self expression. He looked upon his older brother, more forceful, and already an eloquent leader and speaker, with real hero worship. Nothing would suit Andrew better than to shout from the house-tops that God had spoken again from Heaven, revealing to the boy prophet, Joseph Smith…

“John McCord Lamoreaux, father of these boys, living in Scarborough, Upper Canada, near Toronto, had been a successful adjunct in this community as a grocery man for twenty years. His father, Joshua, before him, had started the business from a mere scratch financially, having been forced to flee from his native state New York, where he, with others loyal to old King George of England, had been branded Tories in their refusal to fight with American patriots in the Revolutionary War.”

“When John Taylor [According to Parley’s journal, John Taylor was not with Parley on this trip. He may have been converted about this same time.] and Parley P Pratt took the gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by Joseph Smith into Canada in the locality of Toronto, John McCord Lamoreaux opened the attic of his big store as an assembly room [According to Parley’s journal, He was taken to a barn. This may be one in the same.] in which these Elders could preach. The room was filled with listeners. The Lamoreaux family, eager and attentive, accepted the message as coming direct from Heaven. They were all baptized, [Who does Edith mean by all? Options were __________ Known members were, a cousin, Deborah & James Leithead, Susan Ann & Jachenth Brunelle, Henry Lamoreaux…Henry Earl’s family …] Who Else? Joshua & wife Ann Cross? moved too… did they join the Church? They were later Reorganiized… There is another John in Kirtland… and an Electa died in Iowa?.] among them being David Burlock Lamoreaux, our grandfather, and his older brother Andrew. As soon as John could sell his business, he, with his family, moved to Iowa, [They went to Ohio first and then to Nauvoo & Missouri & then Iowa.] to be near the Prophet Joseph, [Joseph was in Kirtland, Nauvoo & Missouri.] whose chief branch of the church was then at Kirtland Ohio. Not all the family remained faithful. Some, already married, drifted into nearby states, where their progeny still reside.”

“Andrew, married Isabelle Locy, and David, with their families and the old father, were ever loyal to the church and to Joseph Smith. After the death of John McCord Lamoreaux, the brothers moved with the body of the Mormon Church, helping establish the City of Nauvoo, in Illinois.” [John McCord Lamoureaux was in Nauvoo and in Iowa. ]

Life of David Burlock Lamoreaux, Edith I Lamoreaux[CHECK THE CANADA CENSUS for 1831??.][I find it odd that a businessman / store owner left no written records!]

1836 Oct 23 Young St John Lamoreaux baptism date “23 Oct 1836 by P (Parley) P Pratt in Young St., Upper Canada”

Upper Canada Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Record, pg 78”1837 Ontario, Scarborough directory still lists Lamoreaux Families:

John Lamoreaux & family there on Concession 3 Lot 34, Scarborough,



Andrew, in Markham; Con 3 Lot 11; Andrew, Scarborough, Con 4 Lot 35;Isaac, Scarborough, (no Lot #) Joshua, Scarborough, Con 2 Lot 32; Joshua, Pickering Con BF Lot 18; James Sr & Jr & Christopher, Pickering Con 4 Lot 23; Alexander Toronto New Ser Con 6 Lot 5. Walton's Directory of the Home District, Upper Canada

Brown Directory for 1846-7 only lists Christopher Lamoureux in Scarborough and James, Christopher & Isaac in Pickering.

[That would mean that John Lamoreaux, in Scarborough, Andrew, in Markham, Andrew, in Scarborough, Isaac?, in Scarborough Joshua in Scarborough, Joshua, in Pickering, James Sr or Jr, in Pickering, Alexander Toronto all left? What about Henry? He was in Nauvoo. Was he a child in Canada?]

1837 Mar 30 Ontario Susan Ann Lamoreaux Brunelle baptized in Scarborough

Family group record[Andrew Lamoreaux says he was baptized into the LDS Church in 1837]

1837 May Scarborough John Mc Cord Lamoreaux & cousin, Deborah Leithead, are Baptized by John Taylor

Diary of James Leithead*Scarborough “During the summer of this year Parley P. Pratt came into our country

preaching the gospel. I attended several of his meetings and was soon convinced of its truth. In

May 1837, my wife and I were baptized by Elder John Taylor, who had embraced the gospel in the city of Toronto through the ministrations of the Apostle Pratt. Elder Taylor was appointed to preside over the branches of the Church which had been raised up in that region of the country through the Apostles [and others] instrumentality.

James Leithead, "Short Sketch of the Life and Labors of James Leithead""We first heard the gospel through Elder Parley P Pratt, & the year following

we were baptized & confirmed into the Church by Elder John Taylor. In the summer of 1837 a conference was held in Canada at which Joseph Smith, the Prophet, Sidney Rigdon & Apostle Thos. B Marsh were present. At this conference I was ordained a Priest & set apart to preside over a branch of the Church. My wife & I left Canada for Missouri in the spring of 1838."

“James Leithead,” LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Jensen, vol 1 p 540

A Non Latter-Day Saint cousin writes, “…John McCord Lamoreaux, operated a prosperous grocery business in Scarborough, Ontario. At this time, John Taylor and Parley P Pratt, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, were preaching in the area of Toronto. John McCord opened the attic of his large store as an assembly room in which these Mormon Elders could preach.

“The Lamoreaux family, eager and attentive, accepted the message of the Elders: they were baptized, among them were David Burlock Lamoreaux, and his older brother, Andrew Lamoreaux.

As soon as John McCord Lamoreaux could sell out his business, he, with his family, moved to Iowa City [???They went to Kirtland first, Iowa City was later.] to be near the Prophet Joseph Smith. Subsequently, they moved to the City of Nauvoo, Illinois, and then with the Mormon Pioneers to Salt Lake City, Utah.”

Smith, Carl Wm, “A Line Of Descent, French Huguenot Émigré, Andre’ Lamoreaux…” [This is only a secondary source.]

[According to Parley’s journal, John Taylor was not with Parley at the time of their conversion. BUT he was there the next year when parts of the family was baptized.]

1837 Mid Ohio, Kirtland Apostasy in many church leaders, caught up in immorality, in Kirtland

Even Parley P Pratt says, "Prophet is in error"The Heavens Resound p325 Milton V. Backman Jr

1837 June Scarborough David B Lamoreaux age 18, & Henry E Lamoreaux age 20, are baptized



Family group record1837 July Joseph Smith, Bros Rigdon & Marsh leave for Canada

The Heavens Resound, Milton V. Backman Jr, p 322

1837 July 23 D&C 112, Kirtland, Missionaries sent to all the world1837 Aug Ohio, Kirtland “…while Joseph Smith & most of the quorum… were away on missions …a group armed with

pistols and bowie knives …an attempted takeover of the temple. In panic and terror, several people jumped out of the temple windows. The police managed to quell the disturbance and eject the men. When the prophet returned, these men were disfellowshipped.”

Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p181 1837 Summer Scarborough Joseph Smith, Bros Rigdon & Marsh hold conference in Canada

Ontario Diary of James Leithead* & The Papers of Joseph Smith, Dean C. Jessee

“During the summer of 1837, the Prophet Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon and Thomas B. Marsh, who was at that time president of the Twelve Apostles, visited Canada and held a conference in the township of Scarborough not many miles from my home. At that conference, I was ordained a priest and appointed to preside over the branch of the Church in that place. In the fall of that year, a messenger was sent from Kirtland, Ohio, by the Prophet advising all members of the Church to emigrate to Missouri as early in the spring as practicable. Acting on the advice, I made out for Missouri, arriving in Kirtland. We tarried there for some time. Brother Jason Brunell had also embraced the Gospel, and sold his possessions in Canada and moved over to Kirtland, Ohio, the year previously. Some debt that he had left and had authorized me to collect enabled me to procur [sic] a team and wagon. The harness I bought, and with that outfit we reached Kirtland.

James Leithead, "Short Sketch of the Life and Labors of James Leithead"1837 Scarborough Scarborough directory still lists John Lamoreaux & family in Canada1837 Fall Ontario, Scarborough Joseph Smith sends a messenger, Saints to "gather to Missouri" "early in Spring"

Diary of James Leithead*1837 Kirtland, Ohio John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee Lamoreaux moved

their family to join Saintsin Kirtland, Ohio (before or after conference?)

History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~

In The History of the County of Ontario, Lee A. Johnson, 1973 states "Two groups left Canada in 1837 and 1838, and most eventually settled in Nauvoo." It also tells of people settling in Ontario as being "fortunate enough to buy a fine farm in Pickering very cheaply from a Mormon family who decided to follow Joseph Smith." "...he bought also horses, two span, cattle, wagons and everything else just as they stood." The faithful Saints gave up most of what they had to follow the Prophet. [bolding is mine]

Lee A. Johnson, The History of the County of Ontario, 1973The people of Ontario [the Lamoreaux family included.] left in "splinter

group" fashion. "There was no mass migration per se, no set company." "... assuming they left in winter they may have either crossed over the frozen Lake Ontario on ice to Buffalo & then either by road or ice westward to Kirtland. Or they may have traveled via Mt Pleasant (Nickerson home) & thence south on ice across the frozen Lake Erie to Kirtland. If in warm weather most traveled overland from Toronto to Niagara Falls & then overland to the Kirtland area." [bolding is mine]

Richard C Bennett, in a letter to Isabelle L. Cluff, 1976,1837 Nov Ohio, Kirtland Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Bank closed.

The Heavens Resound p 315, Milton V. Backman Jr1837-1838 Ontario Mackenzie Rebellion [most of Saints were in sympathy with rebels, who lost.]

Scarborough History of County of Ontario, Lee A Johnson, 1973History of Scarborough, Robert Bonis, 1965

1837 Kirtland, Ohio Susan & Jason (Jacinthe) Brunelle leave for Kirtland this yearDiary of James Leithead*



1837-1838 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux & wife Ann Cross sell all land in Scarborough

Letter to AJ L'Amoureux, 1921 [Isabelle's Notes]& History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~

[Why did they leave? They probably joined the LDS church; they did not stay active. He did not sign Kirtland Camp. He is listed as a member of the RLDS church in 1877! ]

[Edith L. says, "Not all the family remained faithful. [LDS] Some, already married, drifted into nearby states..." akrc][Note: John & Abigail moved to Kirtland in 1837, a year before the Leithead family moved, in 1838.]

A letter to Isabelle from Richard C Bennett?? states that he should not find any Lamoreaux in Scarborough, Canada to interview, they all left about 1840.

1838 Ontario "Simpson Rennie bought the Lamoreaux property "early in Spring" in 1838"

Scarborough "on Passmore Rd west of Kennedy Rd" Rural Roots Pre-Confederation Buildings of York Reg of Ontario by

Mary Byers 1976?1838 Feb 17 "On the northern border of the Township another Scottish immigrant, Robert Rennie, a few years

after his arrival in Canada in 1833, acquired the lot destined to become famous throughout Ontario as Kevin Grove Farm. Lot 30, Concession 5, which had purchased by Joshua L'Amoreaux in 1832 for 75 pounds sterling, was sold to Robert Rennie on February 17th, 1838, for 175 pounds sterling. About twenty-five years later his son Simpson took over the management of the farm..."

A History of Scarborough, Bonis, Robert, 1965. [before 1840] Scarborough James Long was the store keeper in 1840. (John McCord Lamoreaux had been)

History of North York, Patricia W Hart, 1968Misc Info1860 UxBridge- Ontario, Co “Suzanne Waters in UxBridge-Ontario, Co” - too young? to be a sister - a cousin?

Marrianne Grey Otty Records -LDS film #859584 - New Brunswick Records -St John - Estate Papers of M G Otty

(late marriage? G-dau of ours??) [Who are her parents? Is she related to our Suzanne Lamoreaux Waters?]

Names of our people in Ohio: John McCord & Abigail Losee Lamoreaux , his sons, David Lamoreaux and Andrew Losse Lamoreaux, and Henry Earl Lamoreaux; daughter, Susan Lamoreaux & Jason (Jacinthe) Brunelle; John’s brother, Joshua Lamoreaux & wife Ann Cross; his daughter, Deborah & her husband John Leithead; John’s sisters Jerusha & Henry Earl, and Jemima & Archibald Wright. Their father Joshua Lamoreaux died in 1834, two years before PP Pratt brought the gospel to Canada.

KIRTLAND, GEAUGA, OHIO“Everyday life in Kirtland: During the middle 1830’s Kirtland …number of saints

almost tripled, …to about 1,500 between 1834 & 1837. …calling of the twelve apostles and the publishing of the D & C, …day-to-day life centered on earning a living on the farm or in town. Despite long hours of hard work, the Saints found time for recreation, education, and worship.

“Although leisure time was limited, the Kirtland Saints enjoyed hunting, fishing, swimming, and horseback riding. Wintertime favorites included ice skating and sleigh riding. Family associations were especially important to the Saints. …parents and children often enjoyed the evenings together singing, playing, studying, and discussing topics of common interest. Holidays were infrequent… even … Christmas Day.

“The Saints considered education essential, the home was the setting for most learning. Private tutors …were common.”

“Sabbath worship was central in the lives of early Latter-Day Saints. …Morning meetings typically began at 10:00… The afternoon meeting …usually included the administering of the sacrament…

“The first Thursday of each month was fast day. …meetings often lasted 6 hours, the Saints sang, prayed, bore their testimonies… Music has always been important…

Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p161 JohnAbigailTmLnCreated by April Coleman 5/18/2009 update – printed 5/14/2023 Page 24 of 55


“Kirtland served as headquarters [of the Church] longer than any other location during the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Priesthood keys were restored by Moses, Elias, and Elijah. The School of the Prophets… marvelous spiritual manifestations were seen by many. Nine general conferences were held here, the original Quorum of the Twelve and the Seventy were organized… the first patriarch, Joseph Smith Sr., was called. …The first Latter-day Temple was constructed, in which a partial endowment was given.

“Twenty-seven sections of the D&C… word of Wisdom, …”the celestial kingdom of God”…membership … growing to about 2000 between 1834 and 1837.”

“Apostasy among church members in Kirtland led the prophet Joseph and his family to abandon their home in January 1838 and move to Missouri…”

Keith W Perkins, “From New York to Utah, Seven Church Headquarters,”

[I was interested in the timing of events in Church History. Certain things had already happened in Kirtland before the Lamoreaux family left Canada. Polygamy was revealed about 1835. The bank fell about July 1837. Apostasy seemed to be at its worst about mid 1837. Lamoreaux' joined the Church and moved to Kirtland in the midst of all of this.]

1838 Jan 12 Joseph Smith fled from his [Kirtland] enemies.Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p169

1838 Feb 26 Ohio, "John Lamoreaux" Ordained, Elder Kirtland [Andrew was an Elder before May. David's not listed. akrc]

“The Elders met in the house of the Lord. …“…The pres proceeds to ordain Thomas B Fisher, John Lamoreaux Wm McClary

Elders.” p 40,Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record Lyndon W Cook & Milton V Backman

Jr[My corrections are in italics in brackets.] [First record of John in Kirtland.]

“Andrew Losee Lamoreaux (1812-1855). Born at Pickering, York, Ontario, Canada. Baptized in Canada. Migrated to Kirtland where he lived briefly 1838. As elder signed Kirtland Camp Constitution and moved to MO 1838. Expelled.[from the Kirtland Camp]

Moved to Nauvoo. Served Mission 1839. High Priest endowed in Nauvoo Temple Dec 1945. [This was Jan 1846.]

Served as President of French Mission 1853-1855. Died at St. Louis, St. Louis Co, MO, while returning from this mission.”

Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p91, Cook & Backman“…A. L. Lamoreaux, had been president… p82

B.H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Century 1, vol V

[I believe he may have confused the two John Lamoreaux information.] [There was a Jacob, a Joshua, & 2 John's.]

Records showing John or J Lamoreaux in Kirtland are as follows – my ideas follow in brackets “John Lamoreaux. Ordained elder 26 Feb 1838.”

“John McCord Lamoreaux (1779-1849). [He died before Oct 1848.] “Native of Philipstown, Putnam Co, NY. Prior to conversion to Mormonism,

lived in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. [Baptized in Canada.] “Probable resident of Kirtland 1835-1838. “As elder migrated to MO with Kirtland Camp 1838. Expelled. [from the

Kirtland Camp] Returned to Kirtland where he lived 1841-1843. [This was probably a nephew, John, who is listed on the census records in 1840 & 1850. This John probably never left Kirtland.]

“ Ordained elder 25 April 1941. [This is a J Lamoreaux. There were several in Kirtland; a Jacob, a Joshua, & 2 John's.]

“High Priest endowed in Nauvoo Temple Dec 1845 [This was Jan 1846.]“Died in Nauvoo, IL. [He died in Council Bluffs, Iowa between July & Oct

1848.] Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p91-2, Cook & Backman

[My corrections are in brackets.] [There are 2 John Lamoreaux at Kirtland. Who is the other one? One still there in census 1850 etc]

1837-1838 Ohio, Kirtland 1600 Saints abandoned Kirtland because of persecution, chiefly from dissenters ... "By the end



of July 1838,Church members had almost entirely abandoned Kirtland." "...who apostatized. All of the three witnesses, three of the 8 Witnesses, & one third of the General Authorities, including three Apostles, left the Church in 1837-1838." "87% [of the Saints] stayed faithful."

"A Warning From Kirtland" Milton V Backman, Jr. The Ensign April 19891838 “There was no decision to abandon Kirtland, but clearly the focal point of the Church was switching to

northern Missouri. …By early 1838 the years of Kirtland’s glory had passed. …Latter-Day Saints were eager to find a season of peace after the disastrous year of apostasy in 1837”

Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p181 1838 March Far West, Missouri “After a difficult journey from Kirtland, Ohio, the Prophet Joseph Smith arrived at Far West, Missouri, in

March 1838 and established the Church headquarters there.In May he went north into Daviess County and, while visiting the Grand River, prophetically identified the area as the Valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman,…”

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 461838 Mar 6 Ohio, Kirtland Meeting of the Seventies in the House of the Lord in Kirtland, ... Moving of the Saints from Kirtland to the land

of Missouri, ...taken into consideration the extreme poverty of the Seventies in Kirtland and vicinity, and that it seemed to them almost an impossible thing for the quorum to move from this place under existing circumstances ...

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Spring Ohio, Kirtland “In the spring of 1838, Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, became the gathering place of the Church.

Hundreds of Latter-day Saints residing in Kirtland and vicinity emigrated to Missouri at that time.” Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p91, Cook & Backman

1838 Spring Ohio, Kirtland "The seventies ... discussed the best method to remove to Missouri ...they should go up in a camp,pitching

their tents by the way ...extended to those who were not seventies, on condition that they would comply with the rules.

The Missouri Persecutions, B. H. Roberts 1964 p 1951838 Spring Scarborough Lietheads & others leave for Kirtland & Missouri

"Diary of James Leithead"1838 Mar 16 Ohio, Kirtland Kirtland Camp constitution lists signers including, John Lamoreaux with family of 6, & son Andrew

with 7, bro-in-law Wm Earl with 11, & bro-in-law Wright & nephew in-law James Leithead History of the Church, vIII, B. H. Roberts p 90-93

[Left Who in Ohio? - these left with the Kirtland Camp]John Lamoreaux and his family of 6 would be Who? Abigail, Henry, probably David & wife. [what other1 or

2?] Edith I Lamoreaux says: David B Lamoreaux & remainder of John Mc Lamoreaux family moved to Dayton, OhioSusan was married to Jason (Jacinthe) BrunelleArchibald W was married to Elizabeth WHEN & where? Henry E wasn’t married to Harriet Rice or Price till Nauvoo?David B was married to Mary Ann Gribble on May 31 in Kirtland, in the temple?Andrew L is listed with a family of 7 Who would thisbe? His first wife Isabelle Locy died? He married widow, Isabelle W Rogers in 1832. What children did they have?

1838 Mar 17 Ohio, Kirtland General Meeting of Kirtland Camp Hyrum Smith addressed the groupDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Mar D&C 113 at Far West1838 March Far West, Missouri “After a difficult journey from Kirtland, Ohio, the Prophet Joseph Smith arrived at Far West,

Missouri, in March 1838 and established the Church headquarters there. In May he went north into Daviess County and, while visiting the Grand River, prophetically identified the area as the Valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman,…”

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 461838 Spring Canada, Ontario, Scarb. Leitheads, [Deborah Lamoreaux] & others leave for Kirtland, "team & wagon", & eventually

Missouri ... We tarried in Kirtland for some time ..." [They may have been part of the group led by John E Page. See 12 Aug 1838]

Diary of James Leithead*"My wife & I left Canada for Missouri in the spring of 1838."

“James Leithead,” LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Jensen, vol 1 p 540 1838 Spring Ohio David B Lamoreaux & remainder of John Mc Lamoreaux family moved to Dayton, Ohio [??]

History of D B Lamoreaux (handwritten) Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~[Isabelle's Notes]Note: [Maybe this refers to time the Kirtland Camp left.]

1838 Apr 17 Far West D&C 114, was received1838 Apr 26 Far West D&C 115, was received1838 May 2 Kirtland, Ohio [David Burlock Lamoreaux] “At Kirtland, Ohio May 2, 1838 he married Mary Ann Gribble. She

was born May 15, 1815 in Quebec Canada. In the fall of 1838 they moved to Dayton, Ohio. In 1839 to St Louis; in 1840 to Liberty.”

Daughter of the Utah Pioneers, David Burlock Lamoreaux, Short Sketch1838 May 3 Ohio, Kirtland Andrew Lamoreaux, an Elder, brings charges against a "brother".JohnAbigailTmLnCreated by April Coleman 5/18/2009 update – printed 5/14/2023 Page 26 of 55


“The Elders met as usual. …any business before the quorum bro Andrew Lamoreaux arose and said he was grieved on account of the conduct (of) bro Joshua Bosley he says he found him drunk and a short time after he conversed with him and he confessed and hoped he she should not do the like again but has been found under the same transgression again…” see also 1838 May 31

Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p55 Lyndon W Cook & Milton V Backman Jr1838 May 19 D&C 116; received - Adam Ondi-Ahman Named1838 May 31 Kirtland, Ohio David Burlock Lamoreaux marries Mary Ann Gribble [age; he 19 & she 23 – see also 1838 May 2

Family Group Record by Isabelle Cluff History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux [Isabelle's Notes]

1838 July Andrew L Lamoreaux is on a mission in OhioTimes & Seasons v2 #9

1838 July 5 Ohio, Kirtland Kirtland Camp, camps "a quarter mile south of the Lord's House in Kirtland" (See footnote) The Missouri Persecutions, B. H. Roberts, 1964 p 195

"Times & Seasons" v1 #5 77, 2[John McCord Lamoreaux and his sons, Andrew, Henry, and David Lamoreaux were in the Kirtland Camp]

KIRTLAND CAMP“Kirtland Camp – In the same month that Joseph Smith fled from Kirtland, the lives of the high council were also

threatened, and most of the faithful decided to follow their leader to Missouri. …But before most of the faithful could leave Kirtland, enemies began ransacking homes of the Saints and starting fires in basements.’ p178

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Church History in the Fullness of Times, “The trek was delayed for several weeks as the Saints struggled to settle their debts, sell their property, and purchase

wagons, teams, and equipment. They finally left Kirtland on 6 July 1838 with over five hundred Saints, 27 tents, 59 wagons, 97 horses, 22 oxen, 69 cows, and 1 bull. ‘…all were to fare alike, and did as long as they remained in camp together.’ Even so the travelers had to pause occasionally to earn money for supplies and equipment.

The Kirtland Camp was also dogged by persecutions along the trail. Many people were suspicious of the bedraggled travelers who passed through towns and cities. …Ridicule was sometimes combined with threats of violence. …Many forces contributed to the suffering in the Kirtland Camp.

“Accidents and illness constantly afflicted the pioneers. Some persons were crushed under wagon wheels; others succumbed to disease… They perspired by day and slept on cold and sometimes damp terrain by night. They forded streams, climbed up and down inclines, and followed rutted roads and trails, continually weakened by fatigue, a meager and changing diet, and polluted drinking water.

“’In the midst of their suffering and afflictions, they turned to their Heavenly Father for help. Throughout the journey, elders administered to the sick and the injured; diarists reported that through the power of the priesthood, many of the afflicted were instantly healed.’” p178-9

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Church History in the Fullness of Times, " At times they were allowed to pass on in peace, and then threatened with violence; and at times actually assaulted.

Their toils and sufferings' their faithfulness and rebellions, their rejoicing and sorrows, their preaching the word in the wilderness, their hunger, fatigue, sickness, deaths, and final arrival of the travel-worn remnants of the camp in Far West and Diahman ..." "A spirit of murmuring was frequently manifested, much sickness was in camp, and because of their disobedience, evil spirits plagued them by getting possession of their bodies." "... they spent the summer in journeying to Missouri, where they arrived late in autumn." The Missouri Persecutions, B. H. Roberts, 1964, p 195

1838 July 6 Ohio, Kirtland Kirtland Camp, over 500 Mormons left Kirtland for Far West. "…south through Hudson & Akron,then westward to Wooster, Mansfield & Bucyrus ... past Springfield towards Dayton."

The Heavens Resound p358, Milton V. Backman Jr [Quoted in the Kirtland Letter]& Times & Seasons v1 #5 77, 2

1838 July 6 Ohio "... Towards Chester, south from Kirtland, ... seven miles ... The feelings of the brethren on leavingKirtland and parting with those who were left behind were somewhat peculiar,"Doc History of the Church, & Times & Seasons

1838 July 7 Ohio, Chester "The road between Chester & Aurora, through Russell & Bainbridge, in Geauga Co. was bad & somewhat hilly... Andrew Lamoreaux's wagon broke down twice" [Joshua & Ann Lamoreaux stayed in Chester. akrc]

History of the Church, B. H. Roberts1838 July 7 Ohio, Aurora Kirtland Camp "... camped in Aurora ... 13 miles from Chester1838 July 8 D&C 117, 118, 119, 120; at Far West1838 July 8 Four new apostles were called, and the law of tithing was revealed.

Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p1811838 July 8 Sunday Ohio, Aurora, Kirtland Camp, Publicmeeting 11:00 Heads of families called together instructed to keep their families

in more strict subjection.Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 9 Ohio Kirtland Camp "through Stowe Corners, across the Pittsburgh & Akron canal(which is yet in an unfinished state ... 20 miles

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 10 Ohio Kirtland Camp through Talmadge, 1 mile, then southwards 3 miles thru Middleburg, camped in Coventry

about 1 mine from Akron ... 6 milesDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 11 Ohio Kirtland Camp "After the goods that were to be sent by water were conveyed to Akron the camp moved... through New Portage on the Ohio canal, which we crossed 2 or 3 miles below that place, and encamped



... in Chippeway, Wayne Co." Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 12 Ohio Kirtland Camp thru Green into Wayne, encamped 2 miles from Wooster [Worcester] ... 17 milesDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 13 Ohio Kirtland Camp "... took the road to Manchester ... through Jefferson, in Plain, thence to Reedsborough in Mohican township ... 16 miles

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 14 Ohio Kirtland Camp, thru Jeromeville & Haysville in Vermillion township. Camped in Petersboruogh.

"murmuring" Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 15 Ohio Kirtland Camp, Sunday 11:00 public worship. Many town people attended.Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 16 Ohio Kirtland Camp thru Mifflic "In Madison township we were met by the sheriff and a deputy... a warrant for several of the brethren from Kirtland ... "They were committed to jail. "As we cameto Mansfield we were honored by a discharge of artillery ... we were not molested more than by insulting language ..." camped in Springfield ... 16 miles

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 17 Ohio Kirtland Camp thru the village of Ontario in Springfield; thru Sandusky into Jackson ...16 miles

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 18 Ohio Kirtland Camp tent overseers given instruction. Andrew L Lamoreaux was one. Camp went thru

"Benjamin & took the road to upper Sandusky ... Forthe first time we had the privilege of encamping with out pay." in Grand Prairie, Marion Co. Also went thru Atrim. ... 16 miles

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 19 Ohio Kirtland Camp thru a prairie to Little Sandusky then turned west, pitched our tents on the west side

of the prairie ... seven 1/2 milesDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 20 Kirtland Camp "Murmuring & complaining" Ohio traveled west to Bowsherville then west & south thruBurlington in the township of Grand, Marion Co. ... nine & 1/2 miles ... heavy showers most of the night.

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 21 Ohio Kirtland Camp southwest thru Goshen, Hardin Co ... to the Sciota River in Dudley, camped in Jackson,

7 miles from Sciota ... 16 milesDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 22 Sunday,Ohio Kirtland Camp, "On account of forage we were under the necessity of traveling about 5 miles throughRush Creek ... Attended to offering our sacraments to the Most High, breaking bread for the first time on our journey we were so circumstanced and thronged with visitors that we omitted" the ordinances the first 2 weeks. "... as we passed along the road in the morning, molesting no one, some of the companies were saluted in modern style by having eggs thrown at them.""Sometime in the night a luminous body about the size of a cannon ball came down from over the encampment near the ground then whirled around some forty or fifty times and moved off in a horizontal direction, soon passing out of sight."

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 23 Ohio Kirtland Camp thru "the village of Rushsylvania, where we were threatened before our arrival

with persecution for the 'Kirtland Bank Money'" thru Bellefontaine, Logan Co., 12 miles thence to McKee's Creek, in Union... 16 miles (A miracle that day.)

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 24 Kirtland Camp "We lay in our encampment at McKee's Creek to wash our clothes & refresh our

teams. ... We took 2 jobs ... earned about $20..." Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 25 Kirtland Camp thru West Liberty, on Mad river, into Salem, Champaign Co. encamped 2 miles north of Terbana ... 12 miles

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 26 Kirtland Camp thru Urbana, Champaign Co. into Moneyfield ... several brethren went out to labor to

procure means to further us on our journey, 12 milesDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July 27 Kirtland Camp cont'd journey to Springfield. "A little west of Springfield we left the National road & took the road to Dayton, thru township of Mad river, camped near Lenox... 15 miles, 251 from Kirtland

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 28 Kirtland Camp thru Fairfield to Bath 9 miles, 151 miles from Kirtland

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 July 29 Kirtland Camp, Sunday, Public meeting in a grove; one expelled from camp "William Gribble--

whose wife accompanied us from Kirtland -also joined the camp this day. ... and Elder John E Page, with a part of his company that started from Oak Point, in St Lawrence Co, New York, whither they had fled in the course of the past winter [1837-38], from the commotions and rumors of war in Canada.... they were scattered along the road from Springfield to Dayton, some of them laboring for a means to

prosecute their journey ..."Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 July - Aug "From Kirtland to Cleveland, Ohio where we took passage on a steamer to Chicago ... 1 July ... through the county to the Mississippi River & boarded ... steamer headed for St Louis... reached



Far West abt 1 AugDiary of James Leithead*

[NOTE: James Leithead was one of the last signers of the Kirtland Camp constitution. No family members are mentioned in the camp. I am not sure when he joined the camp. His journal does not follow the official journal of the camp.] [See note* at end of this paper.]

1838 July 30 Ohio, Dayton Kirtland Camp "... we were solicited to tarry in this place for a season and take a job on theSpringfield & Dayton turnpike." John E Page resided from us. "... to Dayton, Ohio, when we stopped & labored four weeks"

"Times & Seasons" ??1838 July Ohio Andrew L Lamoreaux is serving a mission in Ohio & writes of "his ministry from

July 1838 till 17 Dec 1840""Times & Seasons" v 2 #9 339, 11

1838 July 31 Kirtland ? DUP says Mary Ann Gribble “married David Burlock Lamoreaux in the Nauvoo Temple 31 July 1838 with Apostle Brigham Young officiating.” [They were married in Kirtland. Is this the date and did BY officiate? Where were they sealed?]

Daughters of the Utah Pioneers1838 Aug 1 Missouri, Far West James Leithead family arrive at Far West but Prophet advised them to go to Adam-Ondi-Ahman

"From St Louis we took steamer for Richard Landing. Leaving my wife there I went out on foot to Far West and procured a team & wagon & with that I reached Far West about 1 Aug." [Probably later than that. James signed the Camp constitution. The camp was still in Dayton. He may have left his wife with the Camp???]

Diary of James Leithead*1838 Aug 8-10 Ohio, Dayton Kirtland Camp, "sickness still prevails" "... weather extremely hot..."

Doc. History of the Church, v 3, ch 91838 Aug 12 Ohio, Dayton A company of saints organized ...in Canada, under ... John E Page, in their journey to Missouri met with

the camp from Kirtland." [See entry for July 29.]

The Missouri Persecutions, B. H. Roberts 1964 p 1951838 Aug 17 Friday, Ohio, Dayton Kirtland Camp, "... several of the members of the camp were tried for breach of Constitution

..." for their actions or their families actions. "There had been contention in the tent between [a women] and Andrew Lamoreaux, overseer of the tent, ... Andrew Lamoreaux having gone to Dayton to labor, taking his family with him, was not at the Council,"

Doc. History of the Church, v 3 ch 10, p 1281838 Aug 21 Ohio, Dayton Kirtland Camp, "preparations to start our journey as soon as possible,"

Doc. History of the Church, v 3, ch 10, p 1301838 Aug 24 Kirtland Camp, "most brethren who were absent came into the camp"

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Aug 25 Kirtland Camp, overseers called to a council, much in disorder.

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Aug 26 Ohio, Kirtland “The fact that there are not additional minutes for the year 1838 (nor for the year 1839 attests to the general

disruption of Church activities in Kirtland caused by apostasy and the subsequent departure of most of the Saints to Missouri.”]

A footnote for 26 August 1838 in the Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p49 by Cook & Backman

1838 Aug 28 Ohio, Dayton Kirtland Camp, couldn't leave, several families left with no teams as those turned out took their teamswith them

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Aug 29 Kirtland Camp, began to leave through Dayton, took the road thru Eaton, thru Jackson, near Johnsville,

12 milesDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Aug 30 Kirtland Camp, Thru Twin & Washington in Preble Co, thru Alexander & EatonDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Aug 31 Kirtland Camp, crossed the line of ... Indiana, camped in Wayne, Wayne, Indiana, also Richmond & Germantown, 8 miles

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Sep 1 Kirtland Camp, Thru Cambridge, Dublin, Louisville, Flatrock, camped 1 mile west of Knight's Town,

335 miles from KirtlandDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Sep 2 Kirtland Camp, Sunday, "Frost seen in the morning. being quite cool; we thought it our duty to go on ourway," through LIberty, Portland & Center camped on Buck Creek on the west line of Hancock Co.

356 miles from KIrtland.Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Sep 3 Indianapolis, Kirtland Camp, "Cold & frosty in the morning. We arose at four as usual," Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Sep 4 Kirtland Camp, "the destroyer was in our midst and many were afflicted." thru Cumberland, Plainfield, in Liberty township, Bellville, 23 miles - camped 3 miles west of Bellville 396 miles from Kirtland

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 JohnAbigailTmLnCreated by April Coleman 5/18/2009 update – printed 5/14/2023 Page 29 of 55


1838 Sep 5 Kirtland Camp, thru Mt Meridian, Putnamville, & Manhattan, crossed Walnut & McCray Creek, camped just west of Clay Co., 20 miles

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Sep 6 Kirtland Camp, traveled 13 miles, camped 2 or 3 miles east of Terre Haute

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Sep 7 Kirtland Camp, "crossed the Wabash at both ferries, left the national road & turning to the right,

took the North Arm Prairie road to Paris, Edgar Co." 9 miles," camped in LaFayetteDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Sep 8 Illinois Kirtland Camp, Crossed the Illinois line, into Edgar Co., crossed the North Arm Prairie, crossed Sugar Creek, thru Paris and 14 miles of prairie, 24 miles today, 472 miles from Kirtland.

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Sep 9 Illinois Kirtland Camp, Sunday, Started early camped at Ambrose Creek. Heads of family meeting,

discussed impossibility of finding work, looking for places to procure a subsistence during the Winter and sufficient means to remove them to Missouri in the Spring

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Sep 10 Illinois Kirtland Camp, "Considerable anxiety seemed to be manifest by some concerning the advice

of the council, & some complained, ... [they] had rather been left in Kirtland,"Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Sep 11 Illinois Kirtland Camp, Crossed another prairie, 14 miles, camped on west side of West Ocha, Macon Co."many sick & afflicted with fever & ague,"

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Sep 12 Illinois Kirtland Camp, Crossed another prairie, 12 miles, thru a piece of timber land on the headwaters

of the San Juan, 21 miles today.Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Sep 13 Illinois Kirtland Camp, Several "settled their accounts, as they expected to stop at Springfield or soonerif they could find a place."

Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9 1838 Sep 14 Illinois, Springfld Kirtland Camp, "We came this day to (the seat of government for Ill) Springfield,

18 miles, crossing several small creeks, ... thru Rochester, 575 miles from Kirtland.Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Illinois, Springfld Abraham Lincoln elected to the state legislature & was living "Upstairs at Spells Store"between 1837-1860, "This is where the Lincoln-Douglas debates began."

"Abraham Lincoln" video by Dan DaltonDoc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9

1838 Sep 15 Illinois, Springfld Kirtland Camp, "William Gribble left the camp ... to stop at Springfield during the winter" thru Berlin, camped on Spring Creek in Island Grove - 589 miles from Kirtland.

Times & Seasons Note: [Did David stay with father-in –law William Gribble? John & David Lamoreaux were in Springfield. Is this when all Lamoreaux left?

It doesn’t say so.]

1838 Fall Dayton, Ohio “At Kirtland, Ohio May 2, 1838 he [David Burlock Lamoreaux] married Mary Ann Gribble.She was born May 15, 1815 in Quebec Canada. In the fall of 1838 they moved to Dayton, Ohio. In 1839 to St Louis; in 1840 to Liberty. In 1841 he was injured in a fall of the tree, the marks of which he carried thru life in his forehead. In 1842 they moved to Nauvoo, where he became acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith and was a member of his body guard. In 1848 he moved to Iowa City, reached Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1850. They buried their baby girl Abigail, on the plains, she was a child 8 years old. Mrs Lameraux walked hundreds of miles across the plains, leading two year old Albert or carrying him though she was in delicate health. Her daughter was born two months after arriving in Salt Lake, born Nov. 19, 1850.

Daughters of the Utah PioneersFrom the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.

1838 Fall Dayton, Ohio David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux “In the fall of 1838 they moved to Dayton, Ohio. In 1839 to St Louis;in 1840 to Liberty.”

Daughter of the Utah Pioneers, David Burlock Lamoreaux, Short Sketch1838 Kirtland Camp ... John [Lamoreaux] was "Expelled." [I assume from the Camp. WHEN?]... Also

Andrew L [Lamoreaux] was "Expelled from Far West, soon after arriving"(?)Biographical Note from Kirtland 150 Year Reunion

[Note: I think our people left the camp at this time and stayed in Springfield. Now or Later?] [NOTE: It appears that John McCord Lamoreaux & David Lamoreaux & family left before entering Missouri. Is this why John was expelled? Andrew left after arriving at Far West. BUT Andrew was on a mission in Ohio in July 1838 to 1840 AND he was a captain of the Kirtland Camp! Is this what was meant by the comment by EIL: “Since leaving Canada they had stayed together.” Or was that in Ohio?No reason is given for separation. “David B Lamoreaux & remainder of John Mc Lamoreaux family moved to St. Louis, Missouri OR Springfield, Ill. “In this year the family separated.” Mother Abigail dies soon after this. She may have been sick.

Does this refer to David & Andrew Lamoreaux? There were other Lamoreaux families here & in Kirtland.]

1838 Sep 17 Kirtland Camp, thru Jacksonville to Geneva. 614 miles from Kirtland, 25 m today



“When the camp arrived at the Mississippi River in September, they were informed that war had broken out in western Missouri between the Mormons and their enemies, that all Mormons would soon be driven from the state, and that if they continued their journey, they would be attacked and would suffer a similar fate. Several members of the camp refused to enter Missouri as a result of these treats. But most of them passed on.”

Church History in the Fullness of Times, p 1791838 Sep 18-Oct 3 Kirtland Camp continues & is greeted by the Prophet at Far West.

[Since our family except for the Leitheads & maybe Andrew, seemed to have stayed in Chester, Dayton and Springfield, Illinois, I do not include the last Camp entries.]

[NOTE: All Kirtland Camp entries are from Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 10 unless otherwise stated.]



[The daily entries on Kirtland Camp from the Documentary History of the Church were taken from a Journal kept by the camp Historian, Elias Smith. According to the journal the camp arrived in Far West on Oct. 2nd 1838. James Leithead said he arrived at Far West on 1 Aug. He left his family in "Richard Landing" and "went out on foot to Far West and procured a team & wagon & with that I reached Far West about 1 Aug."]


20 January 2007 update

The following are jpg files of Ohio gravestones of the following ancestors:http://www.cisnet.com/teacher-ed/Cemetery/

[The following Lamoreaux seem to have stayed in or returned to Ohio, dying from 1853 to 1884 & 1911.]Joshua LaMoreaux Born: July 9, 1770 in Phillipstown, Dutchess, NY

Married: June 13, 1797 in Gagetown, N.B., Canada Died: February 8, 1853 in Chester, Geauga, OHBuried: Chester Cemetery Married Ann Cross

Ann Cross Born: 1778 in Gagetown, N.B., CanadaMarried: June 13, 1797 in Gagetown, N.B., Canada Died: July 1853 in Chester, Geauga, OHBuried: Chester Cemetery Son of J & A LaMoreaux

Jacob LaMoreaux Born: January 26, 1798 in Gagetown, N.B., CanadaMarried: July 15, 1824 in Scarboro, York, Ontario, Canada Died: March 17, 1881 in Willoughby, Lake, OHBuried: Willoughby Center Cemetery Married Sarah Ann Humberstone

S A H Born: February 27, 1805 in Scarboro, York, Ontario, Canada Married: July 15, 1824 in Scarboro, York, Ontario, Canada - Died: April 1, 1871 in Willoughby, Lake, OHBuried: Willoughby Center Cemetery Son (First Child) of J & S LaMoreaux

George LaMoreaux Born: August 4, 1828 in Scarboro, York, Ontario, CanadaMarried: Not Married Died: 1884 in Willoughby, Lake, OHBuried: Willoughby Center Cemetery Son of J & S LaMoreaux

Samuel Ashford LaMoreaux Born: March 28, 1841 in Kirtland, Lake, OHMarried: June 11, 1868 in Valipariso, Porter, IN Died: November 4, 1895 in Willoughby, Lake, OHBuried: Willoughby Center Cemetery Daughter of J & S LaMoreaux

Elizabeth Kathryn LaMoreaux Born: September 26, 1836 in Scarboro, York, Ontario, CanadaMarried: July 1, 1856 in Kirtland, Lake OH Died: June 1, 1911 in Willoughby, Lake, OHBuried: Willoughby Center Cemetery Married Oscar Howell Rockafellow

OHIO, IOWA, ILLINOIS1838 Illinois, Springfld Abraham Lincoln elected to the state legislature & was living in Springfield, Ill

“Abraham Lincoln,” a video by Dan Dalton 1838 Oct 21 Missouri Extermination order issued by Lilburn W Boggs, Governor of Missouri D&C sec 124 is answered.

Joseph is told to go to Washington, Build temples, Baptize for the deadD & C 124

1838 Oct 27 Missouri “Governor Liburn W. Boggs …infamous ‘extermination order’ …stated in part, ‘The Mormons must betreated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary…”

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 461838 Oct 30 Missouri Haun’s Mill Massacre

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 461838 Dec 1 Missouri The Prophet and others were sent to Liberty Jail after being arrested and ordered killed at Far West.

From there they were taken to Independence and Richmond then to Liberty Jail in Clay County. “Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 50

“While their Prophet remained imprisoned, over 8,000 Saints crossed from Missouri east into Illinois to escape the extermination order. They were forced to leave in the cold of winter…”

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 511839 Missouri Saints leave Missouri & move to Quincy, Illinois 1839 St Louis, MO David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux moved. “In 1839 to St Louis; in 1840 to Liberty. In 1841 he was

injured in a fall of the tree, the marks of which he carried thru life in his forehead. In 1842 they moved to Nauvoo, where he became acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith and was a member of his body guard. In 1848 he moved to Iowa City, reached Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1850. They buried their baby girl Abigail, on the plains, she was a child 8 years old. Mrs Lameraux walked hundreds of miles across the plains, leading two year old Albert or carrying him though she was in delicate health. Her daughter was born two months after arriving in Salt Lake, born Nov. 19, 1850.”

Daughter of the Utah Pioneers, David Burlock Lamoreaux, Short Sketch1830’/40’s Missouri Lamoreaux are listed as land owners in Missouri:

John & Abigail Lamoreaux (& son A W) David B Lamoreaux, Andrew L Lamoreaux,Henry E Lamoreaux, Sarah Lamoreaux, Abigail Lamoreaux

Mormon Land Ownership in Missouri ... 1831-1841, Wayne J Lewis 1981 (A Thesis)[Where is the original source? I want a copy of this record!]

1840LamNauvoo akrc 1/20/2007 Update Printed 5/14/2023 Page 33 of 55

Nauvoo and the Temple Bell, Lamoreaux Family History 1840’s Timeline

[My notes are in brackets. Direct line ancestors are bolded.]

http://www.cisnet.com/teacher-ed/Cemetery/

Date Place Event & Source Names listed are - LAMEREAUX, Andrew & Wife ElectaLAMEREAUX, Andrew Losey & Wife Isabell Wilson & Child Ann (1834) & 5 more un-named Children (child) LAMEREAUX, John (1774) & Wife Abigail Ann Losey & Child Archiebald [sic] WrightLAMEREAUX, Sarah - LAMOREAUX, Abigail - LAMOREAUX, David BurlockLAMOREAUX, Henry Earl & Wife Harriet Price LAMOREAUX, Mary - LAMOREAUX, Sarah

Mormon Land Ownership in Missouri ... 1831-1841, Wayne J Lewis 1981 (A Thesis)1838 Kirtland Camp ... John Lamoreaux was "Expelled." [I assume from the Camp]...

Also Andrew Lamoreaux was " Expelled from Far West, soon after arriving"(?)Biographical Note from Kirtland 150 Year Reunion

NOTE: [Were they expelled or did they settle their accounts and leave. Expulsion may have been for something as simple as hearing of the trouble in Far West and deciding to stay in Springfield. Abigail L Lamoreaux is said to have died in Springfield in 1839.]

1839 Missouri, St Louis David B Lamoreaux & remainder of John Mc Lamoreaux family moved to St. Louis, Missouri. (In this year the family separated. Since leaving Canada they had stayed together. No reason is

given for the separation. It could be religious.)History of D B Lamoreaux -handwritten E I Lamoreaux ~ Isabelle's notes

1839 Illinois, Springfld David B Lamoreaux & family choose to stay with John Mc Lamoreaux. These two families move to Springfield

History of D B Lamoreaux -handwritten, E I Lamoreaux ~Isabelle's notesIsabelle's notes

[Does this have reference to after Abigail died? Why is it written this way?]

1839 Illinois, Springfld Abraham Lincoln lived "Upstairs at Spells Store"(Sprngfld) between 1837-1860, 1842 married Mary Todd, lived above Globe Tavern. 1847 elected to congress (Washington)

"Abraham Lincoln" video by Dan Dalton1839 Illinois, Springfield Abigail Ann Losee Lamoreaux died prob. 1839, probably at Springfield, Ill???? LDS, Archive Fam Gr Record

[NOTE: Abigail is listed as a property owner in Missouri 1831-41. She died after that. Find out when that was.Why are they not on any census in 1840?]

[There is a listing for Abigail’s death in Far West Graves Index. It doesn’t say she is buried there.]

“Members of Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation are now actively researching available documentary sources in an effort to identify the names of individuals buried at this location. Confirmed and Possible Burials, and Sources“Individuals Buried in Far West Cemetery, research by Mike Riggs and Leslie Brooks“52 NAME LAMOREAUX (LOSEY) ABIGAL ANNBIRTH 1778 DEATH 1839 AGE 61 PLACE OF DEATH UNKNOWN WHERE: MAY HAVE DIED AT AOA [Adam-Ondi-Ahman] OR FW [Far West] BEFORE EXODUS

Source: BACKMAN KIRTLAND PROFILES, Page 44. MMFF's Archaeological Dig South of the Cemetery Kirtland Graves & Far West, www.sunflower.org/~ronromig/mmffpp.html

[This is the listing for Abigail’s death in the Far West Graves Index. It doesn’t say she is buried there. It looks like it was taken from a history not a primary source.] [Where is Abigail Ann Losee Lamoreaux buried? This doesn’t say where. I guess that Deborah Liethead was not the only Lamoreaux to reach Far West... This may also be why John & David left the Kirtland Camp with no further explanation! Abigail, as well as they, were listed as land owners in Missouri. Sixty-one years is not young to be traveling like that. I wonder what happened. ac]

“The Latter-day Saints who made their way to Illinois received a warm welcome from generous citizens in the town of Quincy. Following the return of the Prophet Joseph Smith from his confinement in Liberty Jail, the Saints moved up the Mississippi River about 35 miles. There they drained the large swamps in the area and began to build the city of Nauvoo beside a bend in the river. …Church members lived in relative peace secure in the fact that a prophet walked and labored among them. Hundreds of missionaries called by the Prophet left Nauvoo to preach the gospel. A temple was constructed, the temple endowment was received, wards were created for the first time, stakes were established, the Relief Society was organized, the book of Abraham was published, and significant revelations were received. For more than six years, the Saints displayed a remarkable degree of unity, faith, and happiness as their city became a beacon of industry and truth.

JohnAbigailTmLn akrc 5/14/2023 Update Printed 5/14/2023 Page 34 of 55 [My notes are in brackets. Direct line ancestors are bolded.]

Date Place Event & Source “Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 55

[NOTE: Parley P Pratt was in Quincy in 1838-39, so were the Smith Families. Did the Lamoreaux' follow them there?]

1839 Feb/Mar Illinois, Quincy "Previous to our sickness in Quincy, my husband sent Bro. Lamoreaux to Missouri, under strictinstructions to see Joseph & Hyrum, or find out where they were before he should return. ...he arrived

in Quincy & sent word that he had seen neither Joseph nor Hyrum." "... the spirit ... spoke peace to my soul, ... I exclaimed, in tears of joy, 'I shall see Joseph & Hyrum before tomorrow night.'"

History of Joseph Smith by his Mother, Lucy Smith p 300 “The Latter-day Saints who made their way to Illinois received a warm welcome from generous

citizens in the town of Quincy. Following the return of the Prophet Joseph Smith from his confinement in Liberty Jail, the Saints moved up the Mississippi River about 35 miles. There they drained the large swamps in the area and began to build the city of Nauvoo beside a bend in the river. …Church members lived in relative peace secure in the fact that a prophet walked and labored among them. Hundreds of missionaries called by the Prophet left Nauvoo to preach the gospel. A temple was constructed, the temple endowment was received, wards were created for the first time, stakes were established, the Relief Society was organized, the book of Abraham was published, and significant revelations were received. For more than six years, the Saints displayed a remarkable degree of unity, faith, and happiness as their city became a beacon of industry and truth.

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 551839 March Missouri, Liberty Joseph Smith & Co. were still in Liberty Jail Sec 121, 122, 123 of D&C revealed

[These sections are about Trials, Persecution, the Lord's strength, Righteous power]"... the spirit ... spoke peace to my soul, ... I exclaimed, in tears of joy, 'I shall see Joseph

& Hyrum before tomorrow night.'"History of Joseph Smith by his Mother, Lucy Smith

1839 Illinois, Quincy Joseph Smith is allowed to escape from Missouri1839 Apr 21? Quincy, Illinois Br Lamoreaux was sent from Quincy

"Previous to our sickness in Quincy, my husband sent Bro. Lamoreaux to Missouri under strict instructions to see Joseph and Hyrum, or find out where they were before he should return. About the time that I began to walk about a bit, Br Partridge and Br Morley came to our house from Lima, to see if Brother Lamoreaux had either written or returned. When they came we had heard nothing of him, but while they were with us he arrived in Quincy, and sent to us word that he had seen neither Joseph or Hyrum. At this information Brother Partridge was in despair, …I listened to him some time in silence; at last the Spirit, which had so often comforted my heart, again spoke peace to my soul, and gave me an assurance that I should see my sons before the night should again close over my head."

Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother L M Smith p 272[Joseph & Hyrum came home the next day.] [This is probably David Burlock Lamoreaux.]

1839 Apr 22 Joseph Smith was "Reunited with family at Quincy, Ill"The Papers of Joseph Smith, Dean C. Jessee p xlii

[NOTE: Parley & the Smith Families were in Quincy, Ill. in 1838-39. Quincy was a safe haven when people from Nauvoo were persecuting saints. Quincy was settled by New England people. Other areas were settled by a more lawless group of people. Some Lamoreaux people appear to be in Quincy, Feb-Mar 1838. Did the Lamoreaux' follow them there or go directly to Springfield?]

1839 May 20 Illinois, Springfld David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux first child, Jane Ann born. [Dies same year.]Family Group Record

1839 Illinois, Springfield Abraham Lincoln lived "Upstairs at Spells Store" in Springfield, Ill., between1837- 1860,1842 married Mary Todd, lived above Globe Tavern. 1847 elected to congress (Washington)

“Abraham Lincoln,” a video by Dan Dalton [What was Lincoln doing about all this injustice? He was sympathetic to the Mormon plight but not as sympathetic as Douglas.]

1839 Apostles leave for missions to British Isles1839 Joseph Smith & Saints move to Commerce, later named Nauvoo1839 July 22 “As the Saints began to construct homes and to plant crops, many of them became ill with the ague, an

infectious disease that included fever and chills. The sick included most of the twelve and Joseph Smith himself. On 22 July 1839 the Prophet arose from his bed of sickness with the poser of God resting upon him. Using the power of the priesthood, he healed himself and the sick in his own house, then commanded those camping in tents in his dooryard to be made whole. Many people were healed.…One of the great days of faith and healing…

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 56[This may have been what killed Abigail.]

1839 Oct 29 The Prophet Joseph Smith left Nauvoo to present Mormon grievances to the federal government.The Papers of Joseph Smith, Dean C. Jessee p xlii


Date Place Event & Source 1839/1840 Ohio, Dayton Andrew L Lamoreaux swore, "that in 1839 or '40, while President Joseph Smith,

Elder Rigdon, Judge Higbee, Orrin P. Rockwell & Dr Robert D Foster were on their way to Washington,

called at witness' house in Dayton, Ohio; that the evening was spent very agreeably, except some dis-satisfaction on the part of certain females with regard to the conduct of Dr Foster. ... about 8 o'clock, ...he came in & interrupted President Smith ...the company were invited to Mr Brown's at the next door whither they all repaired. ... President Smith told him not to deny it, for he saw it himself, and was ashamed of it. Foster confessed it was true and promised to reform."

Doc. History of the Church, vol 6: 21 The "Nauvoo Expositor" 440, 31839 Ohio, Dayton "... Joseph Smith, during his tour to Washington in 1839, stopped with [the Andrew L Lamoreaux

Family] in Dayton, Ohio, and before leaving laid his hands on Elder Lamoreaux and blessed him, and prophesied upon his head, that he would go on a mission to France, learn another tongue and do much good, but that he would not live to return to his family, as he would fall by the way as a martyr. The Prophet wept, as he blessed him & told him these things, adding that it was pressed upon him & he could not refrain from giving utterance to it, ..."

A Letter to George A. Smith by Erastus Snow quoted inJensen's Biographical Encyclopedia, 3 p 666

1839 Ohio, Dayton Joseph Smith, the Prophet blessed Andrew Lamoreaux concerning his future mission toFrance and

his death. "Short History of Andrew Lamoreaux

1839 Nov 28 Washington, DC The Prophet Joseph Smith arrived in Washington, D.C.The Papers of Joseph Smith, Dean C. Jessee p xlii

1839 St Louis, Missouri David B Lamoreaux & remainder of John McCord Lamoreaux family moved to St. Louis, Missouri. (In this year the family separated. Since leaving Canada they had stayed together. No reason given for separation.)

History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~Isabelle's notes [Where is this found?]

1840 Liberty David B Lamoreaux family moved to Liberty, Illinois. ? ? ? Is this Ill or MO? Prob MO History of D B Lamoreaux (handwritten) E I Lamoreaux ~ [Isabelle's Notes]

1840 Liberty David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux moved. “… in 1840 to Liberty. In 1841 he was injuredin a fall of the tree, the marks of which he carried thru life in his forehead. In 1842 they moved to Nauvoo, where he became acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith and was a member of his body guard. In 1848 he moved to Iowa City, reached Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1850. They buried their baby girl Abigail, on the plains, she was a child 8 years old. Mrs Lameraux walked hundreds of miles across the plains, leading two year old Albert or carrying him though she was in delicate health. Her daughter was born two months after arriving in Salt Lake, born Nov. 19, 1850.”

Daughter of the Utah Pioneers, David Burlock Lamoreaux, Short Sketch1840? Ohio Andrew, Mission to Ohio (There is a mission to Ohio listed in 1838. [Is this that same mission?]

Film #250,236 Miss Rec[NOTE: I find no census for John McCord Lamoreaux age 60, David (20) or Andrew(27) in Ohio, Missouri, or Ill. Where were they?] They left Ohio in 1838 – Abigail died in Illinois in 1839. In Oct 1840 John was with Abigail’s brother David in Lima, Ill. I find them on no census record, UNLESS they were an adult in someone else’s house.

1840 Ohio, Lake, Kirtland Census Index lists the following Lamoreaux: Isaac, in Chester, Geau Co. [Still there in 1850]; Jacob, (20-30) wife, 2 girls(5-10) in Lake Co; & Joshua, (20-30), wife, 3 child in Chester, Geau Co. There is also a John Lamounez in Lake Co.

who is this? 1840 Ohio Census Record lists John Lamoraux (20-30) wife, 2 girls(5-10) [NOT OUR JOHN][same John, & wife Rebecca, is an attorney in Ohio 1850 census]

?check? 1840 - Jacob Lamoreux(20-30)wife, 2 girls(5-10) Henry Earl(40-50) with a male(70-80),wife, 3 boys (0-15), 6 girls (0-15) Archibald Wright(40-50), wife, 3 child

Ohio 1840 Census LDS Film # 020,170 pg 90-91[These are probably Lamoreaux from Canada. Check to see which family they are from.]NOTE: [I find no census listing anywhere for John McCord Lamoreaux age 60 or David(20) or Andrew(27) –were they in Ohio, Missouri, or Illinois. Where were they that year? Check Iowa? Prob not] [John may be the adult living with Henry Earl??? ? All may have been in others households or traveling – not settled.]

1840 Illinois, Nauvoo Deborah Leithead does temple work for Joshua & Elizabeth Lamoreaux."Nauvoo Bapt for Dead", Film #183,376 p 102, 117

1840 Oct 23 Lima, Adams, Illinois, John Lamoreaux & David Losee [Abigail's brother.] +4 more Losee's attend conference at Lima Branch, Hyrum Smith presiding. "John Lamoreaux Eld Recommended." [John is the only Lamoreaux listed.]

"Record of Members of the Lima Branch" Film #007,646 p 7[John is the only Lamoreaux listed at this conference. akrc]

1840 Dec 13 Illinois, Springfld David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux second child, Sarah Jane born.


Date Place Event & Source Family Group Record

[NOTE: David & Mary Ann seem to have stayed in Springfield May 1839 thru Dec1840 However, they are not on Ill census. Or any census that year, for that matter.]

1840 Dec 17 Ohio, Warren, Dearfield Andrew L Lamoreaux is serving a mission in Ohio & writes of his ministry from July1838 till 17 Dec 1840. He is also listed as an agent for the Times & Seasons. Henry Lamoreaux is also an agent.

"Times & Seasons" v2 #9 339, 111840 Ohio Andrew Lamoreaux on a Mission in Ohio

Film #250,236 Miss Rec - also J H of Church 17 Dec 1940[There is a mission to Ohio listed in 1838. ] [Is this that same mission?]

1841 Jan 19 Nauvoo, Illinois Joseph Smith receives revelation to build a temple in Nauvoo for restoration of blessings– after a time baptisms for dead only acceptable in the temple. D&C 124:25-55 See Oct 1838

1841 Feb Nauvoo, Ill Evacuation for the temple foundations are started.1841 Mar D&C 125 - Saints in Iowa counseled to gather to Nauvoo.1841 Liberty David Lamoreaux moved. “…In the fall of 1838 they moved to Dayton, Ohio. In 1839 to St Louis;

in 1840 to Liberty. In 1841 he was injured in a fall of the tree, the marks of which he carried thru life in his forehead. In 1842 they moved to Nauvoo, where he became acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith and was a member of his body guard. In 1848 he moved to Iowa City, reached Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1850. They buried their baby girl Abigail, on the plains, she was a child 8 years old. Mrs Lameraux walked hundreds of miles across the plains, leading two year old Albert or carrying him though she was in delicate health. Her daughter was born two months after arriving in Salt Lake, born Nov. 19, 1850.”

Daughter of the Utah Pioneers, David Burlock Lamoreaux, Short Sketch1841 Spring ?Springfield, Illinois Some say in 1841 - David B Lamoreaux accident felling trees: Prob lateror was it 1847? or Iowa? "While still a young man, living in Iowa, David, then 34 years old, had the misfortune…”

History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~1841? Spring Illinois, Springfld David B Lamoreaux felling trees "While still a young man, living in Iowa, David, then 34

yearsor was it Iowa? old, ...or was it [1819+34=1843 ??] ... while felling trees in a clearing near their home,1843? ...a young sapling strike him directly in the face, almost severing his nose at from it's proper place.

He was alone the time. Making his way as best he could, he blindly reached the front steps of his home, where he fainted and fell."

History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~[There were saints in Iowa in 1841 and 1847. They weren’t in Iowa in 1843! Was he 34 OR were they in Iowa?]

1841 Spring Adam-Ohdi-Ahman, Elder John Taylor met in a conference at to advise the saints to leave & see if they needed help. Missouri The Diary of James Leithead*

1841 April 6 Nauvoo, Ill. Joseph Smith presided over the laying of the Nauvoo Temple corner stone.1841 Apr 25 Ohio, Kirtland "…the case of Brother J(ohn). Lamoraux was presented to the quorum for ordination it was voted

heshould be ordained to the office of an Elder the President (Amos Babcock) with others proceeded and ordained him."

Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p55 Lyndon W Cook & Milton V Backman Jr[John Lamoreaux was already ordained. Which John? Maybe this wasn’t John. There was a Jacob, a Joshua, & 2 John's in Kirtland. Which is this?]

1841 May 11 Ohio, Kirtland One of the John Lamoreaux in Ohio "…A charge was preferred against Elder John Lamoreaux forunchristian conduct manifested to different females by F Knapp the case was taken up and tried he right hand of fellowship was withdrawn and he had until the next sabbath to make restitution. The quorum met the following sabbath Brother Lamoreaux came forward and made his confession the hand of fellowship was restored"

Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p55-6 Lyndon W Cook & Milton V Backman JrWHICH JOHN? I don’t think it is ours.[NOTE: Our Lamoreaux left Ohio in 1838. There were at least two John Lamoreaux's. John McCord Lamoreaux, was not in Ohio at this time. He went back to Ohio in the Fall of 1841 on a mission. He was married to Catherine at the time. Also, two months later, the accuser, F Knapp was charged with "slander" against another Brother, found guilty and censured.]

1841 Nauvoo, Illinois Nauvoo Temple is begun – baptismal font is dedicated1841 July D&C 126 Nauvoo1841 Fall Cincinnati, Ohio "Father Lamoreaux" [John McCord Lamoreaux] called on Mission

to Cincinnati, Ohio. Andrew Lamoreaux was there too. “In 1841 at fall conference the Prophet called out a large number of Elders and sent them into

different parts of the U. S. I went with Daniel Garn and Jacob Foutz by steamboat. They went on to Pennsylvania and I stopped in Cincinnati as I was sick with chills and fever. In about two weeks I was able to take the field with


Date Place Event & Source Father Lamoreaux, and later with Andrew Lamoreaux a noted preacher but he could not sing, so I done the singing and he the preaching. Together we drew out the people. A large branch of the Church was raised up and organized in the vicinity of Trenton, Indiana with John Chaplan as President. When Elder Lamoreaux found I did not improve much in public speaking he sent me alone to fill an appointment in Trenton.

“Diary of Reddick N Allred” quoted in;Daughters of Utah Pioneers Vol 5 p 302

1841 Fall Adam-Ohdi-Ahman, James Leithead, [married to Deborah Lamoreaux, a cousin of David B Lamoreaux] drove his Missouri family in a wagon "300 miles through a country of hostile people.." as they fled Adam-

Ondi- Ahmanto come to Nauvoo. “I moved to Nauvoo, bought a lot and built a small frame house and worked at anything I could get to do, assisted to build the Nauvoo Temple."

The Diary of James Leithead*1841 Nov 8 Nauvoo, Ill Temple Fount dedicated – 21 Nov 1841 all river baptisms stopped

Life in Nauvoo, p 671841 Nov 21 All river baptisms for the dead are stopped.

Baptisms for the dead start in Nauvoo Temple Nov 18411841 Nauvoo, Hancock, Ill Deborah Lamoreaux Leithead does proxy work for her Grandparents Joshua &

ElizabethHancock, Ill Lamoreaux; James Lamoreaux, a brother, Joshua Lamoreaux, a cousin.

Nauvoo Temple Bapt Rec. Film #183,376 pp 102, 117“Nauvoo Baptisms for the Dead”

[This may have been only baptisms… Live endowments only were done in Nauvoo??. Not other work for the dead??]Ck dates. Deborah did not do her parents, Joshua & Ann Cross Lamoreaux's work, they were still alive. Joshua joined the RLDS Church in 1877 & was active in Ohio.]

1842 Wentworth Letter written by Joseph Smith – Articles of faith written1842 Joseph Smith goes into hiding because of persecution.1842 May 4 Nauvoo Endowments given in “Upper Room” until in 1846 only in the temple

Life in Nauvoo, 1842 May 21 Liberty , MO? David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 3rd child, Abigail Ann born.

Family Group Record[Note: Liberty in Clay Co., Missouri, across the river from Independence] [or there is a Liberty, Ill.?]

184? July 1 Where is he? “Elder Andrew Lamoreaux is requested to come to Nauvoo, to answer to certain charges that arepreferred against him.” Before 1843

“Times & Season,” vol 3 #17 & #21184? Aug 1 “The charges preferred against Elder Andrew L Lamoreaux, in this paper, July 1st, has been withdrawn,

& he is restored to fellowship.” Before 1843“Times & Season,” vol 3 #17 & #21

1842 Nauvoo, Ill David B Lamoreaux moved to NauvooHistory of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~ also on film#

[David Burlock Lamoreaux] In 1842 they moved to Nauvoo, where he became acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith and was a member of his body guard. In 1848 he moved to Iowa City, reached Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1850.

From the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.1842 May 21 Illinois, Liberty David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 3rd child, Abigail Ann born. [There is a Liberty in Clay Co.]

Family Group Record1842 David B Lamoreaux moved to Nauvoo

History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~1842 Nauvoo, Ill David Lamoreaux moved. “…In 1842 they moved to Nauvoo, where he became acquainted with

the prophet Joseph Smith and was a member of his body guard. In 1848 he moved to Iowa City, reached Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1850. They buried their baby girl Abigail, on the plains, she was a child 8 years old. Mrs Lameraux walked hundreds of miles across the plains, leading two year old Albert or carrying him though she was in delicate health. Her daughter was born two months after arriving in Salt Lake, born Nov. 19, 1850.”

Daughter of the Utah Pioneers, David Burlock Lamoreaux, Short Sketch1842 Hancock Co, Ill Tax Records – David B Lamoreaux – Hancock C 7.8 sec 31 205

tenant John Kemp 71 John M Lamoreaux – Nauvoo Temple Committee – Carpenter time

Book C p 370 - Andrew book D p 23 - My Nauvoo Notes – [Find this again.]1842 Nauvoo, Ill David B Lamoreaux is listed as tenant on Property “T7 R8, Sec 31, Tenant (1842)”

David is listed as a “millwright” in Nauvoo land records.Nauvoo Land Records, July 2002

1842 Aug 20 Nauvoo, Illinois Tax rolls filed this date listing David Lamoreaux as a tax payer [He’s not on 1840 Nauvoo tax roll.]"David Lamoreaux, value of cattle, 10, value of horses " (from 40 above), value of wagons " (from 40


Date Place Event & Source above), value of ?locks " (from 10 above), value of water?? " (from 25 above), Mon(e)y lone? " from previous page, Stock in trade " (from previous page or L), At?? a?? of property not S?? 20, Amt of Personal Property 30, Resid??? " (from 7N8 above)"

Nauvoo Tax Assessor 1842, p205, Film #007706, MFHC[No other Lamoreaux are listed on this roll. John & Andrew are not listed for either year, 1840 or 1842. John Gribble is listed right after David; "value of cattle, 20; value of horses 5; value of wagons 40; value of ?locks " (from 10 above); value of water?? " (from 25 above); Mon(e)y lone? " from previous page; Stock in trade " (from previous page or L); At?? a?? of property not S?? 50; Amt of Personal Property 115; Resid??? " (from 7N8 above)"

Nauvoo Tax Assessor, 1840 & 1842, p205; Film #007706, MFHC.

[NOTE: Many Saints had come from Lima, Ill to Kirtland, Ohio in 1835 maybe when they left they went back to Lima??? Is that why DBL went to Lima? It's a long shot, probably not..

Edith says David B. Lamoreaux spent eight years in Ohio. [Is this possible?] They left Canada 1837. His family was in Lima, Adams, Illinois in 1842. Did they return to Ohio? Andrew went there on a mission. Several family members stayed in Geneua Co., Ohio.]

184?-1846 Nauvoo., Ill John McCord Lamoreaux & David B Lamoreaux owned land in Nauvoo. IllAndrew L Lamoreaux & Henry E Lamoreaux owned land in Nauvoo. Ill


Date Place Event & Source Maps of Nauvoo

Andrew owned: “KIM 1st: Blk 6, Lot 25, N/2, 1/ 4 Acre” “ “ “KIM 1st: Blk 5, Lot 42, S/2, 1/ 2 Acre (Tenant)” “ “ “B YOUNG: Blk 9, Lot 4”Henry owned: “B YOUNG: Blk 10, Lot 2 (1844) “ “ “KIM 1st: Blk 2, Lot 69, S/2, 1/ 3 Acre (1846)Henry is listed as a tax payer in Nauvoo

Land Records, July 2002 [Henry is listed in Early LDS Member, S E Black p 314]1842 Sept D&C 127 - Directs - keeping records of Baptisms for the Dead.

Joseph Smith glories in persecution and tribulations.1842 Sept 6 D&C 128 - Further directions on Baptisms for the Dead.1842 Oct? Lima, Illinois David B Lamoreaux ordained an Elder "Ordained Elder by Amos Cox at Lima, Ill."

Source? [NOTE: WHERE DID I get THIS? PS - I wrote it in at Oct 1840 which is when the conference was held there.]

1843 Jan “Elder Lamoreaux requests a letter of recommendation from the conference to the church at Nauvoo, as he was under the necessity of returning home. Voted that he is in good standing and fellowship, that his request be granted.” [Prob Andrew]

“Times & Season,” vol 4 #12 189, 51843 Jan 18 Newtrenton, Indiana “Elder [Andrew] Lamoreaux represented the Newtrenton Branch, as numbering 25 in good

standing. …as well as at Lawrenceburg Miami town.”“Times & Season,” vol 4 #12 189, 5

1843 Feb 1 Newtrenton, Indiana “Elder Andrew L Lamoreaux writes from Newtrenton, Franklin, Indiana …the work is rolling forth in the area…”

“Times & Season,” Feb 1, 18431843 Lamoreaux, Andrew L -1812- Canada – parents John & Abigail Lamoreaux High Priest L -Enrolled in G.S.L. City 23 Apr 1848 Nauvoo 17 Dec. 1843

TIB Index1843 Feb D&C 129 received - about discerning angles of light & spirits1843 Apr 2 Ramus, Illinois D&C 130 received1843 May D&C 131 received1843 May Chester, Geu, Ohio Joshua & Ann Cross Lamoreaux, my John’s brother, Deborah Leithead’s parents

have 3 land memorials registered near Kirtland, Ohio

Copy of Deeds[They seem to have stayed in Ohio when the Church left. Their daughter Deborah Leithead was in Nauvoo, Iowa, & Utah. A son, Andrew, received a Pat Blessing in Nauvoo in 1845. Joshua & Ann joined the RLDS church.]

1843 May 8 from Nauvoo Brigham Young Letter to Wilford Woodruff in England: Please send us a bell for the temple.To England Cast of Bronze; clear tone of middle C. Forged in England by the saints.

800 pounds/ $1500 cost When? Shipped across the ocean “in a matter of weeks”Up the Mississippi, Ruffians stole the bell & boat – They were recovered.Hung in the temple belfry by early fall 1843 Prophet assassination 1844Bells important for telling time, warning, calling to gather, etc.

Source??? My notes from journal History of the Church1843 Summer "The Prophet during that summer received the revelation on Celestial

Marriage, but was not immediately made public, although rumors were plentiful in regard to it." Received earlier.

The Diary of James Leithead see 1843 July“Joseph Smith realized his time on earth was short, so while the temple was still under construction, he began giving the endowment to selected faithful followers in the upstairs room of his red brick store.” [Date this??]

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 60 1843 June 11 Lima, Illinois “…a conference was held at Lima, and the branch reorganized under the direction of Elder H.C. Kimball.

…’The Lima Branch met in conference pursuant to appointment at the house of Amos Cox…”Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, from JH of Church

Morley Settlement “Because Morley settlement was a half way place between Nauvoo and Quincy, the people of the settlement often had distinguished guests.

Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106“Also upon the records of membership were found the names of David Losee, Lydia Losee,… …Cordelia said that the Losee family came to Morley Settlement about 1843 and …there were 9 in the family.”“…David & Lydia Losee must have come to the Morley Settlement in 1842… Isaac & Sarah [Losee] [oldest son] lived in Lima.”

Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7


Date Place Event & Source [David & Lydia Losee are Abigail Losee Lamoreaux’s brother & sis in law.]

[NOTE: Morley's Settlement is about 25 miles south of Nauvoo, both in Hancock Co. Lima is 2 miles south-east of that across the county line in Adams Co. D.B. Lamoreaux's family was there some time in 1842 and Mar 1845. Children of David and Mary Anne Lamoreaux were born in Springfield in May 1839 & Dec 1840 and in Liberty May 1842. Springfield in about 100 miles south-east from Lima. Liberty is about 240 miles east of Springfield, or 175 miles south west of Lima. The Leithead family was in Adam-Ondi-Ahman March 1838 till 18??. John Mc Lamoreaux seems to be in Nauvoo Oct 1844 till at least Jan 1846.][Did they come and go? Did they stay in one place? Did the women stay in one place while the men went where the work was and on missions? Their records seem to be scattered?]

1843 July D&C 132 on Celestial Marriage is recorded. It was revealed 1831.1843 Dec Morley Settlement David Burlock Lamoreaux ordained a High Priest by Solomon Hancock

Adams, Illinois, Early Church Records Index &[or Hancock Co.] Lima Records of Kimball Erdman

David B Lamoreaux is listed in Nauvoo H Priest Register as having been ordained High Priest: 1845 in Morley Settlement, Ill by S. Hancock, A.M. YORK

Also listed - Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Record, pg 78”Also listed in Nauvoo 70s Records

[Nauvoo 70’s Record lists the following Lamoreaux; Andrew Andrus Losey, Andrew, Andrew L., (3 of em)David, Henry, & John]

Lamoreaux, David Burlock – Born, 30 or 20 Sept 1819 - Scarborough Co, CanadaWhen Baptized - June 1835 - Where Baptized by Phelps

John McCord & Abigal Losee [sic] Enrolled 5 Feb 1851 at G.S.L. City, ordained Dec 1843 by Solomon Hancock at Morley Settlement(over) Ordained Priest – Mar 1837 in Kirtland Temple by Elder Kellog Ordained Elder by Amos Cox at Lima, Ill.

H.O.Mss.Rec.of H.P. Farmington, UtahTIB Index - High Priest L - page 18 132

1843 Dec 17 Nauvoo, Ill Andrew Lamoreaux ordained a High PriestEarly Church Records Index & Records of Kimball ErdmanAlso listed - Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Record, pg 78” “Source: High Priest Rec, Qrm orgnzd at Nauvoo, 1840, LDC Arc”Also listed HP Quorum, SLC: 23 Apr 1848, SLC, Utah

City of Joseph (Nauvoo) Andrew is listed as 70s “ordination: 1844 - Quorum: Q10”Also listed in Nauvoo 70s Records

184? England to Nauvoo Temple bell Shipped from Eng & up the. . . . Mississippi River. Stolen by ruffians on the way, recovered & delivered to the Saints.

Olive W Burt "Ring out Wild Bells", Children's Friend, July 19761844 Dayton, Ohio In actions against Dr Foster, Andrew L Lamoreaux was sworn. [against Do Foster]

“Said that in 1839 or ’40, while President Joseph Smith, Elder Rigdon, Judge Higbee, Orrin P Rockwell & Dr Robert Foster were on their way to Washington, called at witness’ house in Dayton, Ohio: …”

Documentary History of the Church, vol6: 21 – “The Nauvoo Expositor,” 440, 31844 Apr 15 A.L. Lamoreaux called on a mission to Indiana.

B H Roberts, Comp History of the Church v6 p339Film #250,236 Missionary Rec.

[See entries from Times & Seasons 1842 & 1843.]

1844 June D&C 135 received1844 June 27 Carthage, Ill Joseph Smith & Hyrum Smith are martyred in the Carthage Jail.

D&C 135“Even after the murder of the Prophet Joseph Smith, when the Saints realized they must shortly

leave Nauvoo, they increased their commitment to completing the temple. The attic of the unfinished temple was dedicated as a part of the structure where the endowment would be administered. …Brigham Young, Heber C Kimball, and others of the Twelve Apostles remained in the temple day and night, sleeping no more than about four hours a night.” “Almost 6,000 Latter-day Saints received their endowments before leaving Nauvoo.”

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 601844 July Nauvoo, Ill Two weeks after martyrdom work resumes on the temple

Lois L Tanner, "Old Bell, Temple Bell"Saints stayed to finish & Dedicate the temple.

Missionary Work “During this period, the Prophet called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to go to England on Missions.”

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 56The Standard Works “During the Nauvoo Period… some of the writings that later became the


Date Place Event & Source Pearl of Great Price were published.

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 58Temple Work “Only 15 months after founding Nauvoo, the First Presidency, obedient to

revelation, announced that the time had come to erect…” a temple.“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 58

1844 USA This was an election year in USA. Slavery was a big issue. The Saints threatenedto upset the balance. [Is this the year that the big fight in Gallatin occurred?]

1837-1860 Springfield, Ill Abraham Lincoln is living in Springfield, Illinois - 1837-1860; video by Dan Dalton

[What was he doing about all this injustice? He was sympathetic but not as sympathetic as Douglas.]

1844 Sept 21 Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux initiated into Masons Lodge"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"

[Joseph Smith Jr recognized some truths in the Masonic Lodge – sooo he and many others joined the Masons.][Add notes on Masons.]

1844 Sept 23 Morley Stlmnt “…61 year old David Losee [Abigail’s brother] died. His funeral must have been held in the

grove and he was buried somewhere at Morley.”Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7

1844 Oct 3 Hancock Co, Ill David B Lamoreaux, is listed as a carpenter, in - Masons Lodge"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"

1844 Oct 5 Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux passed in the Masons Lodge"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"

1844 Oct 5 Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux – Joins Masons Lodge "Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"

1844 Oct 5 prob Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux – Masons Lodge – physician – 51 years [1779+63=1844]"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"

[Was he a healer? His son was. …and he was not he51??!]

1844 Oct 8 Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux ordained High PriestEarly Church Records Index

John McCord Lamoreaux ordained High Priest by [Henry W] Miller & council in NauvooAlso listed - Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Record, pg 78” “Source: High Priest Rec, Qrm orgnzd at Nauvoo, 1840, LDC Arc” & “Nauvoo 5th Ward, pg 148.”

[This record also lists John Lamoreaux baptism date “23 Oct 1836 by P (Parley) P Pratt in Young St., Upper Canada”] Also listed - Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Record, pg 78”

Lamoreaux, John - High Priest Ordained at Nauvoo 8 Oct. 1844TIB Index

1844 Oct 6,7,8 A.L. Lamoreaux called on a mission in Church ConferenceEarly Church Records Index – Film #250,236 Missionary Records

1844 Oct 17 Hancock Co, Ill David B Lamoreaux, carpenter, - Masons Lodge1844 Dec 25 Nauvoo, Ill David Burlock Lamoreaux initiated into Masons & passed

"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"1845 “At its peak in 1845, Nauvoo was home to more than 11,000,

mostly Latter-Day Saint residents.”“From NY to Utah, Seven Church Headquarters,” “The Ensign,” August 2001, p 52-58

[Adams County, D.B. Lamoreaux's family was there some time in 1842 and Mar 1845. Children were born in Springfield in May 1839 & Dec 1840 and in Liberty May 1842. Springfield in abt 100 miles south-east from Lima. Liberty is about 240 miles east of Springfield, or 175 miles south west of Lima. The Leithead family was in Adam-Ondi-Ahman March 1838 till 18??. John Mc Lamoreaux seems to be in Nauvoo Oct 1844 till at least Jan 1846. There seems to have been a lot of travel between these settlements, attending conferences & etc. Family members probably stayed at each other’s homes.]

1845 Morley Settlement David B Lamoreaux is listed in Nauvoo H Priest Register as having been ordained High Priest: 1845 in Morley Settlement, Ill by S. Hancock, A.M. York

Also listed - Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Record, pg 78” “Source: High Priest Rec, Qrm orgnzd 23 Apr 1848, SLC, Utah, LDC Arc”Also listed HP Quorum, SLC: 5 Feb 1851

1845 Mar 3 Lima, Ill David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 4th child, William Henry, born. Dies 4 days later. [Morley Settmnt] Family Group Record

1845 Mar 7 Lima, Ill David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 4th child, William Henry, dies, 4 days old. [Morley Settmnt] Family Group Record

[John McCord Lamoreaux’s brother-in-law David Losee’ family was in Morley Settlement. Did the Lamoreaux’ have their own place there or stay with their cousins, one of the Losee family at Morley or Lima? John is listed at a conference with his bro-in-law, David Losee, at Lima.] [Lima is pronounced with a long “i” Like a lima bean.]



1845 Apr 23 Nauvoo John Lamoreaux –In Nauvoo, lot - Kim 71 – see R C 2105 - Suit – neighbor My Nauvoo Notes

John Lamoreaux is listed as Property owner of “KIM 1st: Blk 2, Lot 71”Nauvoo Land Records, July 2002

David B Lamoreaux is listed as Property tenant on “T7 R8, Sec 31, Tenant (1842)Nauvoo Land Records, July 2002

1845 Apr 29 Nauvoo, Ill Andrew Lamoreaux son of Joshua & Anna Lamoreaux receives his pat. Blessing from John Smith

Film #392,666 [There were two Andrew Lamoreaux in Nauvoo. The uncle, David’s brother, seems to be referred to as Andrew L.]

1845 Nauvoo, Ill Endowments first performed in Nauvoo Temple1845 May Nauvoo, Ill Capstone of temple set

Lois L Tanner "Old Bell, Temple Bell"1845 July 25 Nauvoo. Ill John McCord Lamoreaux & Catherine Southerland Lamoreaux receive Patriarchal Blessings

from Patr. John Smith.Patriarchal Blessings Film #392,666, V9 p315 #942 & 943

Lamoreaux, John - 19 July 1779 - Where born - New York City, New York Joshua & Elizabeth Patriarchal Blessings - 25 July 1845 - Nauvoo, Ill.

Linage Joseph - Patriarch John SmithTIB - Recorded Historians Office, Vol. 9 page 315 No. 942

“Catharine Lamoreaux, [2nd wife of John McCord Lamoreaux] Born - 30 Nov 1773 - Parish of Bower, Scotland - Alexander Sutherland & Janet 25 July 1845 -Patriarchal Blessings Vol. 9 page 315 No. 943 Nauvoo, Ill. – Linage - Manassah - Patriarch John Smith

TIB Index[Is this the first entry for John’s 2nd wife Catherine Lamoreaux? About 6 years after Abigail’s death. When and where did Abigail die? Where is she buried? See 1839 When and where did they get married?] I WANT TO KNOW!

1845 Aug 25 Nauvoo, Ill Andrew Lamoreaux's 6th child, William George is born Family Group Record of Leanna S Rogers?

“At a conference held in Nauvoo April 6, 7, & 8th [what year?]… in spite of the mobs …in July or later …Isaac Morley was advised by Brigham Young to move his family to Nauvoo for greater safety. …September 10th, an armed mob entered (Morley.) The children were so frightened they never forgot that day. Most of the men were away.” P 114

“’The mob have burned all the houses on the south side of the brook, and left last evening for Lima.’ [Pres Solomon] Hancock said that the mob had threatened to return as soon as it was light the next day and burn everything south of Nauvoo. The mob did not return and fulfill their threat.”

In Nauvoo: “There were three of four families living in many of the homes but there were not many complaints.”

Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 116-8[There was much persecution in the smaller communities like Morley.]

1845 Sept 12 Morley Settlement “At Nauvoo, the Council of Twelve Apostles issued the following notice to the brethren in andaround Nauvoo: ‘To the Brethren in and about Nauvoo, Greeting:

The Council of the Church requests every man who has a team to go immediately to the Morley Settlement, and act in concert with Pres Solomon Hancock in removing the sick, the women and children, goods and grain to Nauvoo.’ Men with 134 teams responded…”

Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 116-7[Had David & Mary Anne left yet? Their baby was born here in Mar 1845.]

1845 Oct 6 Nauvoo, Illinois “On Monday October 6th, a general conference of the church was held in the nearly completedNauvoo Temple….”

Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-71845 Oct 8 “On the 8th, a circular was issued to the church and to the world in general, announcing the

intention of the church to move from Nauvoo.” Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7

1845 November Nauvoo, Ill "…finishing the temple, ... intend to hang a bell" a visitor to Nauvoo, The Burlington Hawkeye, Nov 20, 1945

1845-6 Winter Nauvoo, Ill "Various rooms of the temple were dedicated ... for ordinance workThe Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 368

1845-6 Winter Nauvoo, Ill "After the death of the Prophet & Patriarch, and the return of the Apostles most of whom were inthe Eastern States, work on the Temple was pushed with vigor and in the fall of 1845 and winter of 1846 was so far completed that endowments were given to hundreds of the Saints. Work on the Temple was continued all winter preparatory to leaving in the spring which had been determined


Date Place Event & Source upon because of the continued persecutions heaped upon us."

Diary of James Leithead1845 Dec 10 Nauvoo The Nauvoo Temple is opened for endowment. For the nest 6 weeks it was open

“The Saints at Nauvoo were hurrying to complete the temple. It was to be the largest, most elaborate and unique structure then in western United States. Late in the afternoon on December 10 th, the temple opened for endowments. Church leaders and their wives comprised most of the 30 or more who entered the temple that afternoon. Part of the group did not complete the ordinance until after midnight so the dates were not clear. …The temple was not open on Sunday but it was on Christmas. …They used all their olive oil and consequently there were no more endowments done until Monday the 29th.”

“So few of the women had white dresses that they were not even mentioned. The women wore white petticoats under their robes.”

Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-71845 Dec 23 Nauvoo, Ill The prophet’s birthday!

John & Catherine Lamoreaux & Andrew Losey Lamoreaux receive Endowments.They were in the “second company” of the day there were 18 people listed in the second

company. There is also a first & third company mentioned that day. Isabella received hers 30 Jan 1846. “ 23 Dec

Lamoreaux, John born 19 July 1779Catherine “ 30 Nov “Andrew Losey “ 17 Oct 1812 24 Dec”

Nauvoo Endowments 1840-1846 - Temple Records, Film #183,371 p33Also listed in Nauvoo Land records, “NT End Rec pg 50”

Nauvoo Sources listed for John are: NTER pg 50; SEB pg 3117-19; MF 2___ P 44 lists: “PKS; FGS; EQM Feb 38; KC (E-6); MP; ML”

1846 Jan 20 Nauvoo, Ill Henry Earl (sev) & Harriet Price Lamoreaux receive endowments at Nauvoo Temple.Son of John McCord & Abigail Lamoreaux born 5 Mar 1817, Scarboro, Canada

Nauvoo Endowments 1840-1846, at Nauvoo Land RecordsAlso listed in Nauvoo Land records, “NT End Rec pg 158”

[Listed as Henry Earl Lamoreaux & Harriet Price]70’s record say he is “Nauvoo Tax payer”

1846 Jan 20 Nauvoo, Ill " Lamoreaux, Bro L " - 20 Jan 1846 - listed as a Temple Worker – performed endowments in the Nauvoo Temple this day.

Nauvoo Endowments 1840-18846, LDS Film #183,371 p 197[Is this John, or Henry? who? Not David, not till 23 Jan 1846. & Andrew, 21 Jan 1846]

1846 Jan 21 Nauvoo, Ill James & Deborah Lamoreaux Leithead receives endowments at Nauvoo Temple. Nauvoo Endowments 1840-1846, at Nauvoo Land Records

1846 Jan 21 Nauvoo, Ill Andrew L Lamoreaux (sev/H priest) & receive endowments at Nauvoo Temple.Son of John McCord & Abigail Lamoreaux born 17 Mar 1817??, Scarboro, Canada

Nauvoo Endowments 1840-1846, at Nauvoo Land RecordsAlso listed in Nauvoo Land records, “NT End Rec pg 158”

70s record say he is “Q10” Ordained 18441846 Jan 23 Nauvoo, Ill David Burlock & Mary Ann Lamoreaux receive endowments

Nauvoo Endowments 1840-1846 - Temple Records, Film #183,371Also listed in Nauvoo Land records, “NT End Rec pg 191”

[Sealing record lists them as David Burlock Lamoreaux & Mary Anne Gribble.]“NT End Record, pg 191”

1846 Jan 28 Nauvoo, Ill Susan Ann Lamoreaux receive endowments sealed to 2nd husband M. McCowanNauvoo Sealing Book A p401, #2850 p409

1846 Jan 30 Nauvoo, Ill Isabella Wilson Lamoreaux receives endowments at Nauvoo Temple. [Andrew’s wife.]Nauvoo Endowments 1840-1846, at Nauvoo Land Records

1846 Feb 2 Nauvoo, Ill "I counseled the brethren to procure boats ... in readiness ... to go... within 4 hours, at least." Days of Exodus Brigham Young, History of the Church v 7 p 578 quoted in Church News 1979

“The evacuation of Nauvoo was originally planned to take place in April 1846. But as a result of threats that the state militia intended to prevent the Saints from going west, the Twelve Apostles and other leading citizens hurriedly met in council on 2 Feb 1846. They agreed that it was imperative to start west immediately,…”

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 691846 Feb 4 Mississippi River The first family crossed the river on Feb 4, others follow

B H Roberts, Comp Hist of the Church, v 3 p 40 quoted in “Church News” 1979“…the exodus began on 4 Feb. Under the direction of Brigham Young …Late winter weather and an exceptionally rainy spring.”

“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 70“The long planned move …began Feb. 4th. The Mississippi River did not freeze over as a rule, but


Date Place Event & Source the weather had been so cold, the river had a crust of ice thick enough to carry loaded wagons. So the first company to leave Nauvoo crossed the great river on the ice….

“Sugar Creek was 7 miles from Nauvoo.”Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, ch 8

Saints went first to Iowa, then to Nebraska, Winter Quarters. “It took the Saints 131 days to travel the 310 miles from Nauvoo to the settlement in western

Iowa where they would pass the winter of 1846-7 and prepare for their trek to the Rocky Mts. This taught …more quickly cross the 1000 miles of the Great American plains …following year in about 111 days”

“A number of settlements of Saints stretched along both sides of the Missouri River. The largest settlement, Winter Quarters, was on the west side in Nebraska.” 3,500 settlers in log cabins and dugouts of willows and dirt. 2,500 Saints lived in and around Kanesville, on the Iowa side. Malaria fever, no fresh food, cholera epidemics, scurvy, toothaches, night blindness, sever diarrhea. Hundreds died.

Women: cleaning, ironing, washing, quilting, write letters, meals, families, theological discussions, dances, Church meetings, parties, frontier revivals. Men: worked together, discussed travel plans, future sites for Saints, round up herds, forage on plains, worked in fields, guarded perimeters, constructed flour mill, readied wagons, prepared fields, planted crops for next group of Saints.

Mormon Battalion left Iowa.“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, p 71-72

1846 Feb 5 Sugar Creek Nine, 9, Children were born the 1st night on Sugar CreekB H Roberts, Comp Hist of the Church v 3 quoted in Church News 1979

“LEAVE NAUVOO, THE BEAUTIFUL“In February 1846 the Church being continually in fear of mob violence began to evacuate

Nauvoo, crossing the Missouri River on ice. Father Y. Allen Taylor fitted up a team and I drove it to help out the first company. I went in Bishop George Miller's company as far as Garden Grove and then returned to help our own folks. I was gone about two months, enduring much hardships in the heavy storms of rain falling like a flood. President Young traveled with the main camp, but Bishop Miller kept ahead showing his bullheadedness. I went back to visit President Young's camp and he said to me, "Tell Bishop Miller the nearer the root the sweeter the grass." The storms were so bad we had to lay by for days at a time and two other men with myself was sent out to trade for the camp with a settler as guide, but they had a jug of whiskey along and drank so freely that I left them the first afternoon and returned to camp.

“I found my folks on the Iowa side of the river opposite Nauvoo being unable to move till I returned. We were soon on our way, and as the storms had ceased we had good roads and plenty of grass. Having a pleasant time we soon passed the newly formed settlements of Garden Grove and Mt. Pisgah and found President Young on the…”

"Diary of Reddick N Allred", Dau of Utah Pioneers v5 p 302 (Feb 1956)1846 Feb 6 Nauvoo, Ill Mary Lamoreaux receives endowments at Nauvoo Temple. [Whose is Mary?]

Nauvoo Endowments 1840-1846, at Nauvoo Land Records1846 Feb 8 Nauvoo, Ill Private Dedication of Nauvoo Temple by Brigham Young.

A. Baugh, Church History Seminar, June 19971846 Feb 15 Brigham Young & family crossed the river then on to...Sugar Creek

Brigham Young, History of the Church v 7 p 578quoted in Church News 1979

1846 Feb 24 Sugar Creek Extremely cold, Mississippi River frozen over saints drove their wagons over the iceB H Roberts, Comp Hist of the Church, as quoted in Church News 1979

1846 Mar 1 “…order was given and the camp began it’s move toward the west. ‘Camp of Israel…’”“Isaac Morley was an older man and remained in Nauvoo for a more favorable time.”

Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7[Why did our people stay in Nauvoo “…for a more favorable time”? Is that why they were able to worry about the bell?Isaac Morley gave pat blessings to several of our people… if we knew where he was, we would know where they were, when!]

1846 Spring Iowa "Myself and others hired a flat boat and when spring opened, commenced ferrying across theriver, which we continued until the majority were across. Having no team or wagon for the trip, I hired a man and team to take me and wife to Bentonsport on the Des Moines River in Iowa. I there went to work ... anything to make an outfit out for the journey, ... "

The Diary of James Leithead1846 April 30 Nauvoo, Ill The Nauvoo temple; "The main court of worship was prepared..." The building was

“dedicated by Joseph Young.”B.H. Roberts, The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 369

Temple work stopped before it was dedicated.1846 May 1 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo Temple publicly dedicated, Orson Hyde & Wilford Woodruff

B.H. Roberts, The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 3691846 June Nauvoo, Ill Mobs renewed efforts to expel the Mormons.1846 Nauvoo, Ill David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 5th child, Martha Elizabeth, born.

Family Group Record[WHAT MONTH WAS THIS? Did they stay long in Nauvoo? Only the poor and the sick were left. Did they stay tell


Date Place Event & Source Sept? Captain Lamoreaux, Andrew, was still there in Sept. See entry for Sept 1846. David’s accident was sometime around this time. Was it in Iowa?]

Latest on the Nauvoo Temple Bell Notes:It seems David did “rescue” ‘a bell’ in 1846, hide it in the marshes of the Mississippi River and carry it in their

wagon all the way to SLC in 1850. It was probably not the temple bell as he thought.“What about the bell supposedly rescued from a Protestant chapel?“A story has been widely circulated in the LDS Church connecting David Lamoreaux with the rescue of the

Nauvoo bell from the tower of a Protestant church. According to the accounts, the bell reportedly had been stolen from the tower of the Nauvoo Temple and installed in a Protestant church steeple during the period when the temple was being occupied by mob forces. Lamoreaux and others reportedly took the bell down from this church steeple and buried it for a time in a river.

“This account, which is accepted by many and printed as reliable, raises many questions. The most accurate information available on this bell (more properly referred to as the ‘Hummer Bell’) is that it was purchased by a Reverend Michael Hummer for a Presbyterian church in Iowa City, Iowa. Hummer had disagreements with the Iowa City presbytery, and they expelled him from their ministry. Feeling that the bell was due him as compensation, he with the help of Dr. J. W. Margrave let the bell down from the church tower where it had been installed. While it rested in a wagon, David Lamoreaux (a member of the LDS Church), James Miller, A.B. Newcomb, and others took the bell and sank it in the Iowa River, hiding it from Hummer and Margrave. In 1950 some in this group left for California, taking the bell with them. It arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in Sept 1850. Undoubtedly in an effort to accrue additional funds, those of this group going to California offered the bell for sale to the LDS Church. It was eventually purchased by the Church for six hundred dollars.

“Years later, Presbyterian leaders in Iowa were informed by Brigham Young of this bell’s existence in Utah, and negotiations were conducted to return the bell to Iowa. The Church wanted to see it returned to its rightful owners but desired proof of ownership and some reimbursement for the funds expended in its purchase. Disputes over rightful ownership then arose between Reverend Hummer and the Presbyterian congregation, resulting in a breakdown of communication with the LDS Church. Later the Church even offered the bell with out compensation if the rightful owner would just pick it up. Nothing was ever consummated, and this bell, still in its box and lacking its clapper, slipped from history…”

Don F Calvin, “Nauvoo Temple, A Story of Faith,” 2002, BYUSource: Watt, “A Tale of Two Bells,” 33-40: also, note 18 of this article citing the Shadrach Roundy Diary, which indicates that the purchase was made by Asa Calkin of the Church while President Brigham Young was in Southern Utah.

[There seems to be some confusion as to whether the Lamoreaux brothers rescued the temple bell or another one; also where the Temple bell was rescued from; the temple or from a local church where it had been removed to. It may have even been taken from the thieves as it was lowered to be taken to a local church. The bell rescued by David Lamoreaux at about Sept 1846 may have been another bell. The bell mentioned in the Nauvoo Temple in mid Sept. was not the Temple Bell as this bell was located in the observatory station of the tower, not the belfry. This one was “a steam boat signal bell.” WHEN? EXACTLY WAS THIS? [As you read the following entries, be aware that the Temple was burned 19 Nov 1848, the temple bell came across the plains in 1847. It appears that David Lamoreaux brought a bell with them. He and his family are listed with an emigrating company that arrived in 1850. Several sources say he took it across the plains to Utah. Most agree that a bell came with him from Nauvoo.]

Details written about the Nauvoo Temple Bell story1846 "Before Nauvoo, Illinois "Andrew Lamoreaux and his brother David, who had been chosen to bring the bell to Utah, all the returned to Nauvoo 'one stormy night and gathered in secret and without horses pulled the wagon saints left" to the church and lowered the bell,'" "After the Temple was burned by an

angry mob, the bell was used to summon Protestant worshipers until two Mormons rescued it one night and carried it west."

Robert Anderson, Ogden Standard-Examiner20 Oct 1984, Church News p 4

[This seems to indicate that it was between February, when the first saints left, and September, when the last left.]“On Sept. 20, 1846 - Young sent a letter back to Nauvoo: ‘As you will have no further use for the

Temple bell, we wish you to forward it to us by the first possible chance, for we have much need of it at this place.’

Church News, Ogden Standard-Examiner, page 4[This seems to be somewhat inaccurate.]

1846 Nauvoo, Ill "A minister, having it in mind for his own church, removed the bell one night David B Lamoreaux "during & his brother Andrew learned of the bell's removal and decided to recover it & take it west with Mormon them. With the help of Daniel H Wells & others, they succeeded in locating the bell; & late one night exodus" they let it down from the new tower. They buried it in a boggy

marsh with only a piece of chain above ground ... There it remained until David was ready to leave Nauvoo. It made such a heavy load in his wagon that his family had to walk most of the way across the plains.

Kimball Erdman found in Nauvoo - Gateway to the West p 76-77


Date Place Event & Source [NOTE: The Lamoreaux's arrived in Salt Lake, 1850, according to family records. The Bell was there 1847!?]

“Pioneer James Liephead, [Leithead] told in his handwritten journal, of how a local Nauvoo minister had had his eye on the bell for his own church. Late one night, apparently unobserved, the minister removed the bell and installed it in the tower of his church.

“David Lamoreaux took the assignment to rescue the bell. Under the cover of darkness he and his brother, Andrew, proceeded to get the bell down from the tower and hid it in a boggy marsh until it could be hauled across the frozen Mississippi River.

“David Lamoreaux’s family walked most of the way across the barren plains in order to make room for the bell in their wagon.

Quig Nielson, “Rescue OF Nauvoo Bell Told,” Panguich, Utah Free Extra, about Jan 1993His sources are: “From Family Histories complied by grand daughters, LeVenda Moore, Rosemary Christensen, and Lletta Dowdell Reid: Journal of James

Liephead.”[This has a few inaccuracies – but it says that James Leithead wrote about it in his journal! – FIND THIS.]

1846 - after Nauvoo, Ill People in Nauvoo thought someone was planning to steal the bell. exodus “…we left our city, Temple & Bell well" "There was a plan afoot to steal it (the bell).

“... D B Lamreaux got a few of his friends together & disguised them as members of the mob by use of face masks. He took his own light wagon onto the scene; and just as the vandals were lowering the bell from its tower to the ground this wagon moved under it. In a flash the brethren were off while those about them supposed they were cooperating in the theft. A few minutes later the mistake was discovered, but too late for the mob to find it. ... They [David & group] proceeded to the willows on the banks of the Mississippi River, and hid it there, then proceeded to submerge it into the mud along those banks. ... The treasure remained there for several months."

Ruth Savage Hilton, Our Grand-Mother Jane 1958taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage)

1846 after Nauvoo, Ill David B Lamoreaux and others thought the bell had been stolen from the temple. evacuation The ‘rescued’ it from the church only later to find out it wasn’t the Temple Bell. of Nauvoo The bell "was apparently taken from the temple & placed in a local protestant church.

We owe recovery of the Nauvoo bell to the Lamoreaux family. Shortly before they left Nauvoo for the West, according to family sources, 'one stormy night men gathered in secret & without horses pulled the wagon to the Church & lowered the Bell, pushed & pulled the wagon by hand to the edge of the Mississippi River & carefully concealed it in the water. Andrew and his brother David were chosen to bring the bell to Utah.'

Lois L Tanner, Ensign Feb 1981 p 15from Maud Lamoreaux Card, From Edith Smith Elliott

1846 "after Nauvoo, Ill "... the cherished bell was taken from it's towers by unfriendly hands & hung in the belfry saints left of the Methodist church. This grieved the saints across the great river ... one stormy night a few of the brethren

gathered in secret, and without horses pulled the wagon to the Church & quietly lowered the Bell. Then pushing & pulling the wagon by hand to the edge of the Mississippi River, they carefully concealed the wagon & the bell beneath the dark waters. Later they rescued it & pulled it on across the river. ... Lamoreaux wagon ... contained the Nauvoo Temple Bell."

Lois L Tanner, "Old Bell, Temple Bell" quoting Lamoreaux letter1846 "after Nauvoo, Ill "David Burlock Lamoreaux drove his wagon underneath the bell, lowered it and delivered it

evacuation" to the Church, it's rightful owner. It was the Lamoreaux family who hauled it in their wagon the (Feb or Sept?) long distance across the plains, and they willingly walked much of the way

to do so."Mary Grant Judd, “Relief Society Magazine,” January, 1942

SOME OF THE LAST PEOPLE TO LEAVE NAUVOO1846 Sept Nauvoo, Ill Cannons made from steamboat shafts are placed on the North of Mullholland St

... under the command of “Capt Lamareux” [Andrew? Or David?]B.H. Roberts, The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 36

[I think Capt Lamoreaux was Andrew. David & Andrew usually did things together but Andrew, the older brother, was usually the leader, so David may have been part of the company.]

“David Burlock [Lamoreaux] had previously been appointed as the prophet Joseph's Smith's bodyguard. In the book entitled "'Rise and Fall of Nauvoo", there is reference made to an organization known as the Lamoreaux Company whose duty it was to protect the defenseless Saints from being fired upon by an infuriated mob, whose greatest delight seemed to be the persecution of these Saints.

“David Burlock Lamoreaux, My Great Grandfather.” by Louesa Topham 1846 Sep 10-13 Nauvoo, Illinois "firing on both sides mob and Saints" Capt Lamareux's Co, called to help Gates & Cutler Co.

Capt Lamoreaux Co fights mob in the streets of Nauvoo.


Date Place Event & Source B.H. Roberts, The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 363

In Sept the temple was taken – See 1846 Sept 181846 mid-Sept Nauvoo - …a mob of more than 1500…‘…in what became known as the Battle of Nauvoo, armed men

invaded Nauvoo and forced hundreds of LDS men, women, and children, too sick to travel, across the river. There the refugees set up scattered camps for two miles along the river banks above the town of Montrose, Iowa (later known as the poor camps.) Few had tents or wagons or adequate food.

William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17[Brigham Young talks about “The Fire of The Covenant, in asking for help for rescuing these people.]

1846 mid-Sept Nauvoo, Ill A bell and bass drum were used by a lookout to warn the saints of mob forces approaching See Note "McGavin p. 241"

[Note: This bell was not the Temple Bell as it was located in the observatory station of the tower, not the belfry. See other entries for clarification.]

1846 Sept 14 Nauvoo “…LDS encampments by the Missouri River, …send back wagons to help people in Nauvoo.This was 2 weeks before news reached them about the battle of Nauvoo and the poor camps. “…A small wagon train, …20 wagons …headed out 14 Sept picking up men & provisions along the way. Most men in the rescue train had relatives they hoped to find & bring west. …reached Montrose on 6 Oct

William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-171846 Sept 16 Nauvoo, Ill "The city of Nauvoo will surrender ... tomorrow 17 of Sept at 3:00 p.m."

"Mormons ... to leave the state ... as soon as they can cross the river." They were promised protection from violence till they left.

B.H. Roberts, The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 3651846 Sept 17 Nauvoo, Ill Surrender of Nauvoo

B.H. Roberts, The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 365Brigham Young sent wagons to help the final evacuation of Nauvoo. The last ‘poor’ saints were rescued from Nauvoo on Sept 17, gun fire at the last.

Video - Mormon Pioneers[David & Mary Anne Lamoreaux had a child born in Nauvoo in 1846. Which month? Were they still here when it was surrendered? I think they were here, cause the bell was. I think they may have left, when the bell was requested, and taken the bell to Brigham Young in Iowa later in Sept. 1846. See …26-27 Sept?.]

1846 Sept 18 Nauvoo , Ill "About 20 of the mob... surrounded my wagons and ordered myself and family off in20 minutes ..." He requested 30 minutes. He was refused time to pack. Their guns were taken. "The mob went through the temple and up to the dome of the tower, ringing the bell, shouting and hallowing ..."

Thomas Bullock (1846), "Journal History" see date.also in The Deseret News, 17 June 1939

[Note: This bell was not the Temple Bell?.]

1846 Sept 26 Winter Quarters "... the bell was raised from it's murky hiding place & taken to where it rang for celebration & funeral alike." "David's [Lamoreaux] 6 yr daughter said, 'The Bell made a full load for our wagon, so I walked all the way that the Bell might ride.’"

Ruth Savage Hilton, Our Grand-Mother Jane 1958taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage)

1846 Sept 28 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo is surrendered. – Letter from B Young requesting the bell.

My [NEWEST] Thoughts on the Temple BellWhat If… David & Mary Ann left Nauvoo some time after 13 Sept. 1846. When did they rescue the bell…

Their last Nauvoo records were, Jan 23, 1846, endowments – but they fought in “the Battle of Nauvoo” 13 Sept. 1846. They also had a child born in Nauvoo in 1846 – Which month?

What if David’s accident happened after the bell was rescued and before the bell went to SL Valley OR shortly after B Young received the bell… The accident was supposed to have happened - in Iowa, in the spring, at 34 years old… It could fit. That would be a good reason to stay in Iowa till 1850. Leitheads stayed that long, 1850, too. David Lamoreaux family did not go to Salt Lake till 1850. They are listed in the Snow wagon train crossing the plains under the name of “Somarus” instead of Lamoreaux.

Several accounts say the bell was taken to a local church or enroute to the church when it was taken. I doubt if David & Co would or could have driven their wagon into the temple. It weighs several hundred pounds… 800 or 1000. The bell couldn’t have been taken in February because it was lowered into the mud at the edge of the river. The river was frozen solid in February.

“Our Grand-Mother Jane,” says, the bell was still in the temple when she left - then raised 26 September 1846 and & taken to Winter Quarters. The first company was still waiting for it in April 1847– It didn’t leave Winter Quarters till June 1847.

Co. Capt Lamoreaux Co fights mob in the streets of Nauvoo. 1846 Sep 10-13 "firing on both sides mob and


Date Place Event & Source Saints" Capt Lamareux's Co, called to help Gates & Cutler. David & Andrew are both listed as saving the bell. At least one of them was still in Nauvoo till the end. Daniel Wells helped… find his journal.

David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux left Nauvoo for Iowa, or Winter Quarters? or such. The bell was requested by Brigham Young in Iowa later Sept. 1846- April 1847.

People who mention the temple bell in their company are Eliza R Snow & Patty Sessions. Were they with B Young’s first group?

Jane Savage knew David & Mary Ann’s daughter, Jane Lamoreaux and knew she had to walk so the bell could ride. We might know more if we knew where the child Martha die? See 1847 June 25 They had a child die "on the trail" in 1850. They arrived in SLC 19 Nov 1850

Who has written about David’s Accident… besides family. Somebody must have recorded it. akrc July 2002

1846 Oct 9 Iowa Miracles of the quails to feed starving saints late 1846? after ... just across the river… Lightning strikes the temple frightening evil revelers. mobs took temple Thomas L. Kane, The Mormons a lecture, March 26, 1850 quoted by Lois L Tanner, "Old Bell, Temple Bell"1846 Oct 9 “The Lord sent assistance to these poor people… Quail flocks flew near the camps and

flopped onto the ground in the morning and afternoon. Like ancient Israel, …picked up quail in their hands & soon had as mush cooked quail as they wanted to eat.

“At 3 PM on the day of the quail miracle, Church trustees working in Nauvoo to sell Church properties …gave to the needy Saints shoes, clothing, molasses, salt pork, & salt.

“…had solicited funds from towns along the Mississippi River… At 4:30 PM [the rescue train] …started return trek. …157 people & 28 wagons.” to WQ, Nebraska.

William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17[This entry is from Thomas Bullock Journal for these dates. FIND IT.]

David’s AccidentWhere was his father, John McCord Lamoreaux at this time?

1847? Spring ?Springfield, Ill David B Lamoreaux accident felling trees:or was it or Iowa "While still a young man, living in Iowa, David, then 34 years old, had the misfortune, while felling1841? [1819+34=1853] trees in a clearing near their home, to have a young sapling strike him directly in the face, almost

severing his nose from it's proper place. He was alone at the time. Making his way as best he could, he blindly reached the front steps of his home, where he fainted and fell. The family hearing a noise outside investigated and found their beloved son in a pool of blood on the door stoop. He was lifted tenderly inside, and loving hands cared for him. Upon returning to consciousness, his suffering was intense. The nose had been pushed back into place and fastened temporarily with such appliance as was at hand. There was a hole in his forehead just between the eyes, which healing was always apparent and required the wearing of a headband all his life, as his picture indicates. "

The family, nursing him devotedly, were nearly worn out, when one evening just before dusk, there came to the door two men, strangers, whom they had never before seen. They thought they might be Mormon Missionaries. These men seemed to sense there was a serious illness in the home. They offered to stay trough the night, insisting that the family get some much needed rest. Which was accepted. David declared that they anointed him with holy consecrated oil. They made him most glorious promises of life, with complete restoration and an important mission to fulfill. Also, that his name and fame should be world-wide. As they prayed, the sufferer heard most beautiful, heavenly music. The pain entirely left him, never returning, and he slept all night. Upon arising next morning the family hastened to prepare breakfast for the visitors. During this procedure, the men suddenly disappeared. Living in an open country for miles around, the family looked in every direction for them, making definite inquiry of the neighbors. But no one saw them, nor were they ever heard of.”

History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~Many versions of this story have been written, most seem to have E I Lamoreaux as their source

[David had to stitch it up himself, he was the only Doctor around. One story said he went to the home of a Beckstead family, who didn’t know him very well. Where did the Becksteads live?][Was he 34 OR were they in Iowa? If it happened here, now, that may be why they didn’t go west till 1850.] [They were in Iowa at least till 1848, Martha died there. In 1848 a child was born in Iowa City, Iowa. Age 30][I think this happened after the Nauvoo exodus before SLC. They weren’t in Iowa in 1853!]

WINTER QUARTERS[Which families were in Winter Quarters? Lamoreaux, Haws, Crockett? Byam/Reed/Curtis…]

“It took the Saints 131 days to travel the 310 miles from Nauvoo to the settlement in western Iowa where they would pass the winter of 1846-7 and prepare for their trek to the Rocky Mts. This taught …more quickly cross the 1000 miles of the Great American plains …following year in abt 111 days”

“A number of settlements of Saints stretched along both sides of the Missouri River. The largest settlement, Winter Quarters, was on the west side in Nebraska.” 3,500 settlers in log cabins and dugouts of willows and dirt. 2,500


Date Place Event & Source Saints lived in and around Kanesville, on the Iowa side. Malaria fever, no fresh food, cholera epidemics, scurvy, toothaches, night blindness, sever diarrhea. Hundreds died.

Women: cleaning, ironing, washing, quilting, write letters, meals, families, theological discussions, dances, Church meetings, parties, frontier revivals. Men: worked together, discussed travel plans, future sites for Saints, round up herds, forage on plains, worked in fields, guarded perimeters, constructed flour mill, readied wagons, prepared fields, planted crops for next group of Saints.

Mormon Battalion left Iowa.“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, p 71-72

“…problems caused by their hasty departure from Nauvoo slowed their progress, as did melting snow, heavy rains, swollen creeks, and mud everywhere – as deep as the wagon bottoms. …the camp inched it’s way west, establishing farms at Garden Grove & Mount Pisgah …arriving at Council Bluffs[Miller’s Hollow or Kanesville, named for Col Thomas Kane] …two months behind schedule. …encampments sprawled over high bluffs and open prairie in sight of Pottawattamie Indian Villages …too late for an over-the-mountains expedition.

Winter Quarters “…divided into 5 acre blocks… Houses were built on the outside of each block, with gardening areas reserved for the inside of the block. Wells were dug, wide streets laid out… In November, because of increasing theft by nearby Indian tribes, the city grew to the north as several southern blocks were evacuated to form a line of defense. …The quality of homes varied widely from large, sturdy, two-story dwellings with solid floors, oak shingles, windows, and chimneys of prairie sod or brick, to inadequate cabin shanties without doors, floor, of full roofs. Some families lived in snow-covered tents, poorly heated covered wagons, or mere dugouts or caves in nearby bluffs or riverbanks.

“Home furnishings were meager, even crude. Most furniture had been either left behind in Nauvoo or long since discarded or traded away. A typical household contained barrels, chests for tables, an occasional wooden chair, trunks, and homemade bedsteads.” “…the Camp of Israel transformed into a prairie city in barely two months. By the end of 1846, Winter Quarters consisted of 538 log cabins, 83 sod houses, and a population of 3,483, which grew to 4,000 in 1847.

“Approximately 7,000 Latter-day Saints spent the winter of 1846-47 at the ‘Bluffs’ …4,000 in WQ & 3,000 on the east side of the Missouri. In addition, some 2,500 Latter-day Saints were scattered along the Iowa trail, while about 1,700 were in Missouri, mostly in St Louis.”

“With winter fast approaching, most of the refugees had used up their provisions, many were sick and exhausted, and death began to stalk the camp with almost indiscriminate abandon. Few crops had been planted, provisions were meager, and the amount of money forthcoming from the Mormon Battalion was unknown.

“The pioneers had no choice but to band together and support one another. President Young called upon the Latter-day Saints ‘to unite with us in the principles of self-preservation’ so that the camps could be made as self-sufficient as possible. In the fair and equitable distribution of what little they had lay the temporal salvation of all. Many were asked to make incredible sacrifices, some wore out with giving. …the welfare of all prevailed over the interest of the individual.

“By far their greatest physical resource was their massive herds of livestock. …Winter Quarters economy was built on a general barter system, with cattle being the most popular item of exchange.”

“All were encouraged to plant private gardens,… Those with trades and skills were encouraged to set up shop. They also built a basket factory, a flourmill, black smith, carding-machine house, tailors, shoemaking, etc. Men “were encouraged to go to Missouri to labor as hired hands… fence building, threshing and cleaning wheat, painting, plowing, milking, & stump clearing.”

Mormon Battalion money was considered “a manifestation of divine providence coming at just the right time for the purchase of provisions and goods in St Louis for their winter supply.”

The need to “provide better care for the poor and hungry in camp initiated a major change in Church administration… The change allowed bishops to offer more personal care…”

“The wintry exodus, shortage of provisions, inadequate medical treatment, exposed river habitation, lack of fruits and vegetables, and general impoverishment caught up with the camp, and a deadly scourge began to ravish the Saints. …river-region sicknesses …scurvy …clouds of misquotes …malaria …pneumonia, tuberculosis …women sitting ‘in open tents keeping flies off their dead children’ while waiting for the grave digger.” “…Church leaders encouraged those who were completing cabins & who had enough room to provide shelter for the less fortunate.”

“Elder Lorenzo Snow said, ’Well persons could not be found to take care of the sick. A general spirit of lamentation and sorrow pervaded.’” “…they were dying in epidemic proportions. …it is estimated that a minimum of 723 died between June 1846 ND May 1847 in settlements on both sides of the Missouri River and back along the Iowa trail.”

“The exodus would ever be more trial than trail. …God would have a tested people, …redeemed in the fire of their wilderness afflictions. While some left the Church during these difficult times, most remained faithful and committed to the cause of Zion. ‘We are willing to take our full share of troubles, trials, losses and crosses, hardships and fatigues, warnings and watchings, for the kingdom of heaven’s sake,’ Pres Young… ‘Come, calm or strife, turmoil or peace, life or death, in the name of Israel’s God we mean to conquer or die trying.’”

“Yet if the air of WQ was saddened by the moans of the sick and the sound of the grave digger’s shovel, it was also brightened by choirs, music, and the voices of children. …WQ put on a happy face and an active appearance.” “Makeshift schools… Singing & dancing schools …concerts, Musical performances, and songfests…”

“…Sunday worship services ..frequently held outdoors.. After the ringing of the Nauvoo Temple bell, …women outnumbered… And because of pervasive sickness, women were often found nursing, aiding, and comforting the sick and dying…”

The Pioneer Camp left 5 Apr 1847. The Emigrating Camp left in June. Thousands left behind began planting


Date Place Event & Source seeds & gathering provisions. “’All preparation and organization …is for journeying and not for a permanent location at Winter Quarters.”

Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53[This article has a great bibliography.]

1847 April 16 prob Winter Quarters Instructions from "The 12" to those who followed the "pioneer group", "The first Co. will carry the bell, ..." Bell not there yet. “50 miles from Winter Quarters”

"Journal History" organized by datealso in Exodus to Greatness, P Nibley 1949, p 368

1847 Mid April Winter Quarters First party, with Brigham Young, 143 Men, 3 women, 2 children; left to cross the plainsMormon Pioneers, E C McGavin

1847 June 1 Ft Laramie First party, with Brigham Young. Brigham's birthday at Ft LaramieMormon Pioneers, E C McGavin

[Note: The bell appears to have been in Winter Quarters for a while. See following entries; 17 June and 21 June.]

1847 June 11 Winter Quarters, Nebraska The Temple Bell left Winter Quarters in a wagonRuth Savage Hilton, "Our Grand-Mother Jane" 1958, taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage) p21-23

1847 June 17 Winter Quarters Parley P Pratt states the companies are ready to start, provided Col Scott could get the cannon,South West Bank the boat, and the Temple bell . They are waiting at South West Bank of the Elkhorn River ready. Elkhorn River Bro. Scott had received instructions a long time before to get these ready ... "... Col Scott is

instructed to forward immediately, cannon, boat & bell.Bell ready – at W Q – requested at “camp of Israel south west bank of Elkhorn River”

"Journal History of the Church" organized by date1847 June 23 “Diamond Island” Emigrating Co's leave Liberty Pole - 9 AM, 2 rows - Temple Bell leads one - Traveled 15 miles

– camped on the prairie – 3 miles west of Shell Creek – 2 miles from river - Liberty Pole was with Mormon Battalion –Aug - Las Angels Calif.

P Sessions Journal

1847 June 23 Liberty Pole Nauvoo Temple Bell left Liberty Pole (about 13 miles out of Winter Quarters.Ruth Savage Hilton, "Our Grand-Mother Jane" 1958 taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage) p21-23

1847 June 25 Iowa David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux's daughter Martha Elizabeth, 5th child dies in Iowa. Age 1 year, buried along the trail. Child Born in Iowa in 1848

F.G. & from my old time line1847 June 28 On the trail "…prayers night & morning at the ringing of the bell"

P Sessions Journal1847 July 24 Salt Lake, Utah Vanguard Pioneer Co Enter Salt Lake Valley 1847 Early Aug Salt Lake Valley Two groups left Salt Lake to aid pioneers on the trail

Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin p 1951847 Oct 31 WQ, Iowa “Pres Young and other members of the advance company return to Winter Quarters after

identifying the site of the new Church headquarters near the Great Salt Lake.Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53

1847 Nov 14 WQ, Iowa Pres Young announces plans to begin abandoning Winter Quarters in the spring of 1848.Government had demanded that they “vacate Indian lands.” If able go west or if not go back across the river.

Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-531847 Dec 5 Kanesville, Iowa 12 Apostles met on Iowa side of the river, prayerfully select first Presidency

Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-531847 Dec 27 Kanesville, Utah Brigham Young is officially sustained president of the Church

Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin p 1951848 Jan 2 Pottawattamie, Iowa John Lamoreaux listed as a member of the High Priest Group “Records of the High Priests of the

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Resident in Pottawattamie, Co, Iowa and received into the quorum commencing upon the 2nd day of January 1848 at the Tabernacle Blockhouse Branch of the Church as by the minutes of the meetings & proceedings of that quorum in the forepart of that book will –ppuary…” In the Mill Branch – John Lamoreaux is listed and added later “Dead”

Film #007794AThe letter to Brigham Young, written later, telling of his death, calls him “Father Lumureaux” which seems to be a family tradition.

Journal History of the Church, Oct 2, 1848, p 2Indexed in Obit Rec Index LDS Film #321,156

“…arriving at Council Bluffs …encampments sprawled over high bluffs and open prairie in sight of Pottawattamie Indian Villages…”


Date Place Event & Source Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign p 40-53

1848 Jan 11 Where?? Iowa? Mary Anne Gribble Lamoreaux receives her patriarchal blessing from Isaac MorleyPatriarchal Blessing Index [I have this?]

[Isaac Morley was late leaving Nauvoo. See 1846 Mar 1. Where was he in Jan 1848 for this blessing? Mary Ann didn’t get to Utah till 1850. Why didn’t David get one here too? Is this the time of his accident?]

1848 Iowa City [David Burlock Lamoreaux] “In 1848 he moved to Iowa City, reached Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1850. They buried their baby girl Abigail, on the plains, she was a child 8 years old. Mrs Lameraux walked hundreds of miles across the plains, leading two year old Albert or carrying him though she was in delicate health. Her daughter was born two months after arriving in Salt Lake, born Nov. 19, 1850.

From the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.1848 Jan 24 California Gold is found at Sutter’s Mill

Hartley, William G ,”On the Trail in September,” Ensign1848 Spring Salt Lake Valley Crickets plague & Sea gulls Miracle

Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin p 2131848 Mar “Saints not yet ready to make the trek west begin moving east across the Missouri River to Miller’s

Hollow, renamed Kanesville.” Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53

1848 Kanesville, Iowa Because of Gold Rush – economy in Kanesville booms “…gives many previously too poor tomigrate an opportunity to head west.” Kanesville later renamed Council Bluffs. [See 24

Jan 1848]Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53

1848 Andrew L Lamoreaux crossed the plains with the 3rd division or Willard Richards Co.Journal History 31 Dec 1848, Suppl p 19, also Film #298,441

“Andrew, …had the misfortune to lose his wife through death, being left with two small children, a girl named Ann, and a son named William. But undaunted, he came with the other pioneers to Utah in 1848.”

History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~1848 Apr 23 SLC Andrew Lamoreaux enrolled in Greater Salt Lake City as High Priest.

Early Church Records IndexLamoreaux, Andrew L -1812- Canada – son of John & Abigail Lamoreaux

High Priest L -Enrolled in G.S.L. City 23 Apr 1848 Nauvoo 17 Dec. 1843TIB Index

1848 July Iowa Pioneers - “By 3 July 1848, some 3,000 LD Saints had departed for the Salt Lake Valley…Those

not ready to go west …some 3,000 Saints moved to new surroundings eastward across the Missouri; the evacuation continued through the spring and early summer. Most settled temporarily in Iowa near Miller’s Hollow, below the east bluff of the river, where the townsite was laid out in 1847. …renamed Kanesville in April 1848 in honor of their non-LDS friend Col Thomas Kane. …Kanesville was destine to be a major Church gathering place, fitting-out station, & a springboard to the Great Basin. It became a layover town where those too poor, tired, discouraged, or unprepared could delay their journey a year or more, plant & sow crops, procure teams & outfits… After these pioneers left …new arrivals from the East or from over seas would take their place…” After the discovery of gold in Calif., Kanesville economy boomed. Church members prospered by selling land, goods, services, provisions & livestock to the emigrants. “Some found the comforts of eastern Iowa a more difficult temptation to resist than their earlier trials and sufferings.”

Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-531848 July 1 Pottawattamie, Iowa John McCord Lamoreaux dies - is mentioned in a letter to Brigham Young.

- Oct 2 Since “…on the1st day of July,” our last letter “… Father Lumouraux moved here, and died of a short illness.” [Who wrote the letter?]

Journal History of the Church, Oct 2, 1848, p 2Indexed in Obit Rec Index LDS Film #321,156

[Note: This corrects all Nauvoo records where John McCord Lamoreaux is listed as dying in 1849 in Nauvoo. The 2 Jan Record lists John in the Mill Branch.]

1848 Nov 19 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo Temple burned by a mob 1848 Nov 19 Iowa City, Iowa David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux's 6th child, David Albert born en-route to Iowa City

[Had they just left Nauvoo? If not where were they till now?]Family Group Record

1848-50 James Leithead says, "Having no team or wagon for the trip, I hired a man and team to take me and wife to Bentonsport on the Des Moines River in Iowa. I there went to work ...anything to make an outfit out for the journey, and in the spring of 1850 started across the plains in Captain Andrus' company of over fifty wagons, ... "

The Diary of James Leithead1849 July 24 SLC Nauvoo Temple bell rings in the bowery to celebrate anniversary of coming of the Saints into the

Salt Lake Valley, Utah.


Date Place Event & Source 1850 May 27 Tornado blew over the last standing wall of Nauvoo Temple

The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 3691850 June 26 on the trail David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux's 3rd child, Abigail, 8, dies "on the way & buried in a

roadside grave "Family group Sheet

“David [Lamoreaux] and his brother Andrew, and their families came to Utah. While crossing the plains the family endured many hardships and sorrows. At one place a little girl, Abigail Ann, eight years of age, was taken suddenly ill of cholera and died. The child wad layed away on the plains and the company moved on. This was a great trial to the family.

David Burlock Lamoreaux, By Mary Ann Rasmussen, a great grand daughter “Long before we were born, Sam, a woman could have been seen walking beside a covered

wagon. The trail was twelve hundred miles long and her section of her private parade was there at the start and at the finish. In the beginning she expected to ride, together with her two children and all her earthly goods. For a long time now she knew she would become a mother again - - prayerfully after getting to Zion.

“Her husband [David Burlock Lamoreaux] and his brother [Andrew] carried the title "Spartan Band" and it was an incident connected with these men and the fall of Nauvoo that caused Mary Ann to walk all the way. When the city of Nauvoo was in flames and the refugees fled their beautiful Zion on the bend of the great Mississippi, the two Lamoreaux brothers climbed the bell tower of the deserted Nauvoo Temple and lowered the bell to a nearby marsh. Later, under cover of night, they loaded the bell into David's wagon. IT must ride to Zion! Its great weight replaced the combined weight of Mary Ann and the children and most of their possessions. Well, that was the way it was for the Lamoreauxs

A book about Panguitch & Paragonah, UtahSent to akrc by Jim Lamoreaux 1997

1850 Nov 16 Salt Lake Valley, Utah David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux enter the valley One Edith I Lamoreaux History says enter1850 Sept 10 - prob Nov

D B L History1850 Nov 19 Salt Lake, Utah David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux's 7th child, Mary Ann Josephine born 3 days after their arrival

Family Group Record1851 Feb 5 Lamoreaux, David Burlock – Born, 30 or 20 Sept 1819 - Scarborough Co, Canada

When Baptized - June 1835 - Where Baptized by Phelps John McCord & Abigal Losee [sic] Enrolled 5 Feb 1851 at G.S.L. City,

ordained Dec 1843 by Solomon Hancock at Morley Settlement(over) Ordained Priest – Mar 1837 in Kirtland Temple by Elder Kellog Ordained Elder by Amos Cox at Lima, Ill.

H.O.Mss.Rec.of H.P. Farmington, UtahTIB Index - High Priest L - page 18 132

1855 St Louis, MO Andrew L Lamoreaux died on his way back from a mission to France.He was President of French Mission & translated the D&C & Hymns while there.

Nauvoo Land Records, July 20022002 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo Temple is rebuilt with a new bell and dedicated again. I was there in July.

~ Edith I. Lamoreaux was the daughter-in-law of David Burlock Lamoreaux. She listened to David tell his life story and that of his family. She wrote them down in the History of D B Lamoreaux,. We owe her a debt of gratitude for preserving the stories as well as she did. In researching David's and the Lamoreaux's history I find some inconsistencies in chronology. The events she chronicled are correct, they actually happened. The sequence and times and places sometimes seem out of order. She's usually close in time and place, not always exact. There is a hand written copy and the published copy. When they differ, I assume the published copy to be the most correct. As a daughter-in-law, listening to my father-in-law tell his stories, I found that I didn't always have enough background to accurately record events. Sometimes I didn't even know enough to be able to ask the right questions to find out details till I did some research. Edith has given us, in some cases, our only written record of events and times. In my research, I assume she is correct unless I find proof of something different.

* Diary of James Leithead, was written by James Leithead, who was married to Deborah Lamoreaux, the niece(?) of John Mc Lamoreaux. They joined the Church in Canada about the same time as John & his family. They seem to have left Canada a year later than John and went to different areas. However, their paths crossed, their lives were similar and they both did temple work in Nauvoo.

My notes are in [Brackets]. akrc

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Date Place Event & Source BIBLIOGRAPHY

Anderson, Max L on Susan Ann Lamoreaux Brunelle - rec’d Dec 2002Bates, Walter, “Kingston and the Loyalists of the Spring Fleet of 1783 with Reminiscences of Early Days in

Connecticut,” Bates, Walter. Narrative by Walter Bates, Esq., Sometimes High Sheriff of the County of Kings, to which is appended a Diary written by Sarah Frost on her voyage to St. John, N. B. with the Loyalists of 1783.'

Found in “Keeping Kingston Memories,” by Ruby Cusack, http://www.rubycusack.com/issue168.htmlBell, D.G., Early Loyalist Saint John, New Ireland Press, NB, 1983Bennett, Richard C, in a letter to Isabelle Cluff.Bonis, Robert. A History of Scarborough. 1965.Bonis, Robert R. St. Paul’s Church-L’Amoreaux, A Historical Sketch by The Reverend Robert R. Bonis. Boyle, David. The Township Of Scarboro, 1796-1896. Edited by– printed by William Briggs. Toronto. 1896.Brown, Wallace & Senior, Hereward, Victorious in Defeat, Facts on File Pub., NY, 1984. Byers, Mary, Rural Roots Pre-Confederation Buildings of York Reg of Ontario, 1976?The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Archive Records Cook, Lyndon W & Backman, Milton V Jr, Kirtland Elders Quorum Record Cramer, Carl, The Lordly Hudson,

[This volume has a wonderful, detailed drawing of the Hudson Valley from NYC to Albany.]Cusack,Ruby, “Keeping Kingston Memories,” http://www.rubycusack.com/issue168.html

Contains – The Diary of Sarah Frost -and ‘Kingston and the Loyalists of the Spring Fleet of 1783 with Reminiscences of Early Days in

Connecticut: DAR, Old Wills of New Rochelle 1784-1830, New Rochelle, 1951 (SLC FHC # US/CAN 974.7277/N1 P29d)Diary of Sarah Frost found in “Keeping Kingston Memories,” by Ruby Cusack,

http://www.rubycusack.com/issue168.html 'A Narrative written by Sarah Frost on her voyage to St. John, N. B. with the Loyalists of 1783.’ by Walter Bates, Esq., Sometimes High Sheriff of the County of Kings,

Dubeau, Sharon, New Brunswick Loyalist, Ontario, 1983“A Page From The Past,” An Article from “The Enterpriser,” 18 Mar 1964, a news paper in Ontario Canada. Sent to

Isabelle Cluff from Dorothy Milne,Family Bible of Isaac & Ann Lamoreaux, From Duane L"Amoureux, 1991, I have a copy. Family Records of Archibald Orrell Lamoreaux, Isabelle L Cluff, April K R ColemanFamily Group Record from Roland SmithFrost, Sarah, Diary of Sarah Frost found in “Keeping Kingston Memories,” by Ruby Cusack,

http://www.rubycusack.com/issue168.html Gelb, Norman, Less than Glory, GP Putnm Sons, 1984, from MPL Apr 1998. Good description of

Loyalist-Patriot feelings & persecutions. see biblio.Hart, History of N York http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/1107/sunbury.htmlJohnson, Lee A., The History of the County of Ontario, 1973 Lamoreaux, Edith I., "The Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux"Leithead, James, "Short Sketch of the Life and Labors of James Leithead," Glendale, Kane County, Utah,

January 8, 1902 Also quoted as “Diary of James Leithead”Loyalist Petition Daniel Lamoureux, 30 Mar 1786; #148Loyalist Petition of Josue' Lamoree #128 - Dec 16, 1784Loyalist Petition of Josue' Lamoraux, #271 & 273 & cover 20 Mar 1786, Loyalist Petition of Josue' Lamoraux, 1796 Feb 1Loyalist Petition of Josue' Lamoreaux for Jan 9,1809 Memorial #1243, by Josue Lamoreaux, dated 1809 Jan 5Memorial of Jos? Lamoroux, 1815 Nov 27, Scarborough, Ontario, York,Memorial of Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman, dated 1817 Mar 26, at Scarborough, OntarioMemorial of Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman, dated 1817 Dec 30, at Scarborough, Ontario


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Date Place Event & Source Memorial of Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman, dated 1820 June 5, at Scarborough, Ontario

to lease lot 33; 4th concession Clergy Lot* Memorial of Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman, dated 1821 Jan 18, at Scarborough, Ontario

to lease lot 33 in 4th concession Clergy Lot*Memorial of Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman, dated 1821 Feb 3, at Scarborough, Ontario

to lease lot 33 in 4th concession Clergy Lot*Memorial of Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman, dated 1821 Feb 3, at Scarborough, OntarioMemorial of Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman, dated 1828 Apr 12, buys land from Asa Patrick, at Scarborough,

Ontario "indenture of sale"Memorial of John Mc Lamoreaux, dated 1812 Nov 23, at Scarborough, OntarioMemorial of John Mc Lamoreaux, 1816 Jan 10, Scarborough, Ontario, Upper CanadaMemorial of John McCord Lamoreaux & Andrew (son of Isaac), dated 1828 Feb 23, to buy land lot 33 in 4th concession Clergy Lot* Scarborough, OntarioMemorial or petition of John Lamoreaux, 1 October 1831 second Petition for land in YorkNational Genealogical Soc. Special Publications #45Ontario Historical Society Papers, found by Isabelle Cluff (added 2002)Otty, Marianne Grey, Estate papers, Film #859584, Mesa LDS FHCPhillips, Cheryl Cross From an email written by Betty Lorraine Patton Phillips to Lynn, shared with April Coleman by

her daughter-in- law, Cheryl, of Ottawa, Ontario Feb 2003. Pratt, Parley P, Autobiography of Parley P PrattReaman, ?. Trail of the Huguenots from… Registers of St. John's Anglican Church of Gagetown, Queens Co., N.B., CanadaStock, Mrs Abigail L, a g-dau of James & Martha C Lamroux, in a letters to Andrew J Lamoureux

dated 12-16-1919 & 12-19-1919Tabori, Paul, The Anatomy of ExileTyrell, J.B., Letter to IsabelleWill of Joshua Lamoree (Sr,) written 1817 Jul 3, Scarborough, Ontario

This time line / document list is continued from, “1600s - The Lamoreaux Family in France,” “1690s -The Lamoreaux Family in England & Holland,” "New York City in the 1700's, The Lamoreaux Family History in New York" "1776, The Lamoreaux Family in New York During the Revolutionary War", "Canada, the Lamoreaux Family, 1783 to 1837" and "1837 - Kirtland, The Lamoreaux Family In Ohio, & Etc.," “1840s - The Lamoreaux Family in Nauvoo and the Temple Bell,” “My Family’s Church History Time Line 1840-1860” akrc

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2 July 1998 update - April's Ancestryaprilsancestry.com/files/JohnAbigailTmLn.doc · Web view8 July 2007 update - additions12/8/2008 -5/18/2009. John McCord Lamoreaux was born in