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• Cemetery: Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA; Lehi City Cemetery
• FSID: KWJZ-MRL
• Bopæl: Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA
• Dåb: feb. 1844
• Indvandring: 1857, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1860, Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1870, Utah, USA

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Pioneer Ancestors on the Ship Brooklyn

Isaac Goodwin and Laura Hotchkiss Goodwin were both natives of Connecticut. We do not know when this couple joined the Church, but they were baptized by Elisha Davis and were well acquainted with John Taylor, Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and many of the other early church leaders in and around New York and the New England States. Isaac was a mason by trade and when the call came in 1846 for the Saints to gather in the west, he sold his business and property at a great sacrifice. They joined many of the other eastern Saints that under the direction of Samuel Brannan would sail on the ship Brooklyn, down the coast of North and South America, around Cape Horn and up the coasts of the continents to the territory known as California. Then they would travel east to meet the other Saints where ever they would settle in the west.

The ship set sail on February 4, 1846 the same day that the advance companies of Saints left Nauvoo heading west. The Brooklyn’s passengers numbered 70 men, 68 women, and 100 children. Among these were Isaac and Laura and their seven little children, the oldest being 12 and the youngest 1½ years old. Plus Laura was pregnant with their 8th child. Seasickness was much in evidence and at times violent storms tossed the ship.

The ship rounded Cape Horn and headed for the port of Valparaiso to replenish their supplies. But a terrible storm came up and blew the ship far to the south and the passengers saw icebergs. The storm lasted for three days. At the height of the storm, Laura Hotchkiss Goodwin was thrown from the ladder-way and injured in the fall.

After the storm, the captain of the Brooklyn pointed the ship northwest and headed for the nearest land which was the small island of Juan Fernandez, known today as Robinson Crusoe Island (located off the coast of Chili). Here in 1704, the sailor, Alexander Selkirk, had been set ashore and lived alone for 4 ½ years before being rescued. His story became the setting for the classic story “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe.

On May 4, 1846, the Brooklyn dropped anchor at this island. On May 6th, Laura Goodwin died from her injuries sustained in the fall and was buried on this lonely island. Of all the passengers who died on route, she was the only one buried on land. One of the passengers recorded in their journal: “At Juan Fernandez we went ashore to bury Mrs. Goodwin. Although the occasion was so sorrowful, the presence of the six little children sobbing in their uncontrollable grief and the father in his loneliness trying to comfort them, still, such was our weariness of the voyage that the sight of and tread upon terra firma (land) once more was such a relief from the ship life that we gratefully realized and enjoyed it.” One of Isaac’s daughters, Nancy Ellen was 5 ½ years old at the time.

The Brooklyn sailed on stopping also at the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). As they sailed across the Pacific, their drinking water became thick and ropy with slime. Rats were everywhere and cockroaches and weevils infested the provisions. Finally, on July 31, 1846 the Brooklyn sailed into the harbor of Yerba Buena (San Francisco). The journey by ship had taken 6 months.

For six years Isaac lived and worked in the San Francisco area with his family. In 1852 he responded to the call of the Church for the Saints to gather in colonies and he took his family to live in the Mormon settlement of San Bernardino (Southern California). When Brigham Young called all the Saints to Utah in 1857, Isaac left all his wealth in California and traveled by covered wagon to the St. George, Utah area (near Las Vegas) where they stayed for a year. In 1858, they started for Lehi, Utah (north of Provo) but were forced by a sever snow storm to stop in Payson, Utah where Isaac’s daughter, Nancy Ellen (your 3rd great grandmother) married William Evans, a miner from California and Australia. Isaac settled in Lehi where he was elected Mayor three times. He went on a mission back to Connecticut in 1872. In 1879 he passed away and is buried in the Lehi cemetery.

Submitted by Rebecca Strand Powell, great-great-great grandaughter

Isaac blev gift med Laura Hotchkiss den 2 feb. 1833 i Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Laura blev født den 3 apr. 1813 i Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; døde den 6 maj 1846 i On Ship Brooklyn, Pacific Ocean, At Sea; blev begravet den 6 maj 1846 i Mas a Tiera, Juan Fernandez, Chile. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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• FSID: LLMY-KPC

Isaac blev gift med Rhoda Richards den 27 mar. 1800 i Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. Rhoda blev født den 24 aug. 1765 i Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; døde den 1 maj 1848 i New Hartford, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]