170 years ago today - Feb 24, 1846

En route from New York to California aboard the ship Brooklyn, Mormon emigrant Sarah Burr gives birth to a baby boy, whom she names John Atlantic Burr. He is the first of two children to be born on board the ship. Later, a baby girl is born to Phebe and John Robbins and is named Georgiana Pacific Robbins.

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