Manuscripts

The Descendants of Thomas Judd

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Description: Genealogical history detailing the experiences of the Judd family from the 17th-19th centuries. The manuscript begins with Thomas Judd in 1633, but concerns most particularly the lives of Mormons Zadok Knapp Judd Jr. (1855-1952) and his wife Ada Marie Howell Judd (1867-1953).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1953.
Call number: mssHM 70169
Creator: Judd, Esther Brown(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Blance H. Mace, Apr. 1962.
Dimensions: 29 cm

Autobiographies of Zadok Knapp Judd, Mary Minerva Dart Judd, and Wandle Mace [microform]: approximately 1881-1892

Manuscripts

Microfilm of typescript autobiographies by Zadok Knapp Judd and Mary Minerva Dart Judd, along with the manuscript autobiography of Wandle Mace. The second reel contains a copy of the Zadok Knapp Judd autobiography.

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Mary Minerva Dart Judd autobiography, (bulk 1879-1885)

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This is the original handwritten manuscript of Mary Minerva Dart Judd. The bound volume consists of Judd's reminiscences of her life; family records such as births, deaths, and baptisms; and poetry and songs. The subjects covered include Judd's recollections of her move to Utah, her marriage to Zodak Knapp Judd, their movement between various Mormon settlements, and her descriptions of her life as a woman pioneer. She also provides accounts of the births and deaths of her children, relationships with Native Americans, frontier and pioneer life, the purchase of Native American children, and the various activities of Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886)

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Sketch of the life of Mary Minerva Dart [Judd] [microform]: c.1840-1881

Manuscripts

Microfilm of Mary Minerva Dart Judd's autobiography, covering the years from approximately 1840-1865 (some brief notes and genealogical accounts continue into the 1880s). The account opens with reminiscences of Mary's childhood in New York and Connecticut, and with an account of her family's wagon travels to Council Bluffs in 1849 and to Utah in 1850. It recalls the Dart family's settlement in Parowan, where they had an encounter with Indian Chief Walkera (c.1808-1855), and Mary's marriage to Zadok Knapp Judd in 1852. Mary subsequently describes moving to Santa Clara in 1856, traveling near St. George, living in Harmony in 1857, and settling in Eagle Valley in 1865 (a genealogical note includes reference to the family's life in Kanab in the 1880s). Mary also writes of her father's mission to San Bernardino, of her cotton manufacturing, of the 1862 Santa Clara River flood, and of the death of George A. Smith, Jr. (1842-1860), who was apparently shot to death by a Navajo Indian. The account also references Indian children purchased by the Judds, including a boy named Lamoni who died while in their service, an unnamed girl who was purchased in 1858 and died in 1861, and a second girl named Nellie who was purchased in 1862 and in 1867 married a "wild Indian" and left to live with his family (she returned to the Mormon settlement as a washer woman). Also included is some genealogy and hymn lyrics.

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Diaries of Thomas Judd [microform] : 1876-1908

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Microfilm of the diaries of Thomas Judd, covering the years 1876-1878 and 1906-1908. The first two diaries, dated 1876-1877 and 1877-1878, cover Judd's mission to Britain. The 1906 diary covers Judd's activities in La Verkin, his business trips around Washington County, and a trip to Las Vegas and California, including Los Angeles, Pasadena, several beaches, and Santa Catalina Island (where he took a glass bottom boat ride). The 1907 diary describes a second trip to California, including San Francisco, as well as Utah business activities, and the 1908 diary traces Judd's sea voyage from New York to Los Angeles. Portions of the diary are very faint and may be partially illegible.

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Autobiography of George Washington Brimhall [microform] : c.1888-1889

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Microfilm of a typescript of George Washington Brimhall's autobiographies. The first part, entitled History and Biography of the First Part of the Life of George Washington Brimhall, includes anecdotes about Brimhall's childhood and young adult life in New York state, including stories about his family's lumber freighting business. The account ends with his travels through the Northeast in the late 1830s and his eventual settling in Knoxville. The second part, entitled A True History and apparently begun at Spanish Fork, Utah, on December 15, 1888, primarily recounts Brimhall's experiences in Utah. It begins with an allegorical description of his family life in Illinois and his call west. Brimhall then recounts volunteering with Zadok Knapp Judd to help found a new colony (probably the Iron Mission near Parowan); encounters with Indians near in the area of Sevier; his service in the state legislature; continuing famine conditions and hard winters; experiences in Ogden, Cedar City, and Salt Lake City; being sent to colonize Grafton, in Kane County near the Rio Virgin, in 1864; difficult travel conditions and his reluctance to relocate to St. George and Spanish Fork; 1873 Indian peace treaty negations involving Judge John Cox and Chiefs Poikneapah, Ungutsup, and Tamerat; and his treatment for Brights Disease in San Francisco 1877. The accounts end in 1889.

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