Spanish. This Captain went to about a year ago and is expected home soon with his vessel, and when he returns he intends to come to on a visit. He is not a member of the church but is a friend to us. From the information Ihe received from this Captain he should say that has given a faithful description of the country.
The said with regard to our finding a location, it is for us to go where we can do the best. If the company who goes out this spring should find a location not far distant, where we can stay a year or two as circumstances may require, we will soon have a company on the way. But our final object is to get on the sea coast where we can have the advantages of commercial navigation But if we can get one hundred miles beyond [p. [139]]
A possible reference to John Franklin Segee, a mariner who married church member Charlotte Morgan Very on 17 June 1844 in Salem, Massachusetts. Erastus Snow may have become acquainted with the Segees during his travels in Salem from 1841 through 1844, though more likely during his journey to the area campaigning for JS’s election to the U.S. presidency in the late spring and early summer of 1844. (O’Donovan, “Mormons of Essex County, MA,” [119]; Snow, Journal, 1841–1847, 3–4, 11–40, 48–50.)
O’Donovan, Connell. “Mormons of Essex County, MA, (Salem, Beverly, Lynn, Newbury, Rowley, Gloucester, Danvers, etc.), September 22, 2014.” Unpublished paper. Accessed 10 July 2015. www.connellodonovan.com/essex_mormons.pdf.