[first pass]                        

[Pottawattamie HC Conf Min LR 1764 21 / Lr 1764 21 folder 1 Pottawattamie HC Lr 1764 21 fd 1 July 46-Feb 51 / LR 1764 21 1846 July-1851 February_Page_011 ]

In reply to yours of yesterday. per Counciller Phenehas Richards.  I give
you the following names of Bishops appoint by the church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Council Bluffs July 17 1846
to take take charge of the families left by the Mormon Battalion.
Charles Bird, John Murdock, Isaac Morley, Roswell Stephens, John A Wolf
Jonathan H Hale, Ellis M Sanders, Levi W Hancock, Asa Davis, Madison D
Hamilton, Abraham Hoagland, Wm Draper Jun^r, Prudy Meeks
Edson Whipple, Jacob Myers, Isaac Hate, Caleb Hate, Wm Perkins,
Andrew H Perkins, Roland Cob, Thomas Guyman, Benjamin Willis,
Sandford Holman, John Tanner, Sidney Tanner, Ute Perkins,
Geo. Coulson, James Alred, Geo W Harris, Daniel Spencer,
Wm Blackhurst, Samuel Shepard, Louis Zabriskie, Seth Taft
Jeremiah Root, John T, Tanner, John Tibbets, James Bean,
Wm Lemmons, Geo Bundy, Henry ^W. Miller, Joseph Mecham, Sidney
Knowlton, Hazen Kimball, James S, Kimball, James Huntsman,
James Rollins, John L How, Samuel Parrish, Daniel Russel,
Samuel M Russel, Wm Henry, James Eastman, John Benbow,
John ^P Barnard, Charles Chapman, Job Barnum, Benjamin F. Bird,
Andrew Burnham, Jonathan C. Wright, Samuel Conrad, Erastus
Root, Heeton C Hate, James Davis, Justin Merrills, Allen Taylor,
Alfred Randall, Abraham O. Smoot, James McLellin, Frederic Von
Leuven, Thomas Pierson, Samuel Turnbow, James Dunn,
Newman Buckley, Luther Bunnell, John Van Cott, James N.
Jones, Isaac Houston, Moses Clawson, Samuel Snider, James
Lake, Robert Gibson, Raymond Clark, Jesse C. Little, Andrew
Cunningham, Hiram Spencer, Daniel Hendrix, John Vance,
Evan M Greene -- The Bishops will keep a correct account of
all moneys & properties received by them for the benefit of thore
Their charge, and how disposed of, under  and report the
sane when called upon under penalty of being brought before the
Council -- By order [of the] Council           W Richards Clerk