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Internal rules and regulations for the U.S. Sloop Dale
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John W. Barrett bill of sale for ship Walter Scott
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This manuscript is a bill of sale for one half of the ship Walter Scott, sold to George B. Upton by John W. Barrett. The ship is registered at the port of Nantucket, and Cromwell Bunker it its current shipmaster. Printed form, filled in and signed by hand.
mssHM 4159
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Private journal of a cruize in the U.S. schooner Enterprise Lt. A.S. Campbell Esq. commanding in the East Indias & China Seas
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Journal kept by Henry Cadwalader, a midshipman of the United States Navy on board the U.S. schooner Enterprise and U.S. sloop of war Peacock sailing to Zanzibar, Oman, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and Indonesia from August 1835 to April 1836. Cadwalader's entries are very detailed, and he makes comments on each port and town visited. He writes about his fellow sailors, life on board the ship, and the people he encounters on land. He describes street scenes and mentions other ships arriving in the harbor. The journal contains several sketches done by Cadwalader: on the page before title page there are several sketches of people and the ship Peacock (the page is torn so some sketches were lost) and there is a sketch of the "Town of Zanzibar from the Harbour" above the entry for September 17, 18, 19, 1835.
mssHM 83980
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William Young Empey diary
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This incomplete manuscript provides a partial glimpse of the experiences of the first Mormon party that traveled to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847 under the direction of Brigham Young as well as the operation of the first Mormon ferry on the Upper Crossing of the North Platte River.
mssHM 52586
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William H. Dougal journal of a voyage from New York to San Francisco
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This manuscript describes the journey of William H. Dougal, an engraver and artist, who traveled from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn in 1849, as a passenger aboard the ship "Galindo." Much of the seabound content concerns the weather. Dougal goes ashore in Chile on November 17 and describes the land and its people. He is particularly impressed with the horsemanship of the Chileans. The final date listed is November 22, where Dougal reports the ship is eight miles from San Francisco. Published as "Off for California" (RB 277286), of which this manuscript appears to be a printer's copy. Typescript from original held by San Mateo Historical Society. Includes 20 photographs of drawings by the author, some with typewritten captions on verso, and a seven-page typescript likely intended to be included in the published version.
mssHM 50579
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Reminiscences of John Wesley Hillman, Famous Forty-Niner and Discoverer of Crater Lake as dictated to Bentley B. Mackay
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In this 33 page document, John Wesley Hillman relates his travels and colorfully details life mostly in California and Oregon from 1849-1854. Beginning with the journey from Louisiana to St. Joseph, Missouri over the Oregon Trail to Oregon City, by ship to San Francisco and then to the mines in Mariposa County. Hillman returned to San Francisco after his father returned home to Louisiana. He describes the San Francisco fire of 1851, a trip to Mt. Shasta and Yreka and environs and then to his home base for many years in Jacksonville, Oregon. After driving pack and wagon trains, Hillman signed on to be a member of a party contracted to search for a shorter route to the gold fields in Florence Basin and the Salmon River in Idaho. After engaging in their own prosperous mining, the contact was fulfilled. Back in Jacksonville, he learned that a party of Californians were going on a search for the Lost Cabin Mine and decided to follow them. It was on this journey that he expectantly stumbled upon Crater Lake, a place that he said cannot be described in mere words, but one of the six wonders of the American continent that must been seen to be fully appreciated.
mssHM 19977
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C.C. Williams' Workingmen's Party of California and U.S. census materials
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Five documents and letters relating to C.C. Williams' activities with the Workingmen's Party of California, The Peoples Advocate, and the United States Census in San Francisco and Stockton, California. The collection includes a history of the Workingmen's Party of California (WPC), probably written by Williams, which references the Party's political activities, the "Chinese question," and the election of Dennis Kearney as Party president. It also includes a summary of charges from the WPC against Williams and W.E. Peyton accusing them of violating their pledge to the WPC and committing "acts unbecoming a member" by publishing the "Daily Three o'Clock" newspaper, which was "in the interests of the New Constitution Party" and against the WPC. Also included are a letter from Eliot Lord of the Department of the Interior, Census Office, authorizing C.C. Williams as an agent of the Tenth Census (1880), a sheet of Chinese characters used by Williams when he served as deputy assessor of San Francisco, and a memorandum of agreement for the establishment of "The Peoples Advocate" newspaper (1879).
mssHM 72916-72920