Abstract This collection (1861) contains the patriarchal blessing of Orrin Hatch. Orrin Hatch was a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, and marched with them to California in 1846. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1848 and later settled in Bountiful, Utah. He married Elizabeth Perry in 1855 and Maria Thompson in 1856 and was the father of twenty-one children.