William G. Dryden claims against Mexico | Collections | The Huntington

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G. A. Foulk to William R. Morgan
Manuscripts
The collection contains 260 pieces, including ephemera. The bulk of the material is correspondence; however, there are a few business records and legal documents throughout the collection. Most of the letters in this collection were written to Morgan after he had moved back to Vermont. His partners are writing to keep him apprised of business matters. The majority of the correspondence deals with the legal problems the Sierra Union Water and Mining Company was facing due to the hydraulic mining process. Some specific subjects discussed in these letters are: hydraulic mining, lawsuits, mining law, mining claims, claim jumpers, water rights, mining equipment, abandoned mines, and land disputes. Many of the letters are written from or related to San Francisco, St. Louis, Sierra County, and Marysville, California.
HM 60207
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Land claim of Edward Potter
Manuscripts
The manuscript describes the boundaries of the land claim of Edward Potter near Los Angeles. The claim was made before Judge K. H. Limmish, who also signed the item. The land bordered a ranch belonging to Lewis Granger, who was then District Attorney.
mssHM 69817
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Complaint against William Ryan
Manuscripts
This document outlines the land claim of Forbes Barclay against William Ryan concerning land in Clarke County, Oregon. Ryan leased the land from Barclay but refused to leave after the twelve-month term. In the handwriting of and signed by Kintzing Prichette, Barclay's attorney. Dated 1850, June.
mssHM 16944
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William Rollin Morgan addenda
Manuscripts
The collection contains 260 pieces, including ephemera. The bulk of the material is correspondence; however, there are a few business records and legal documents throughout the collection. Most of the letters in this collection were written to Morgan after he had moved back to Vermont. His partners are writing to keep him apprised of business matters. The majority of the correspondence deals with the legal problems the Sierra Union Water and Mining Company was facing due to the hydraulic mining process. Some specific subjects discussed in these letters are: hydraulic mining, lawsuits, mining law, mining claims, claim jumpers, water rights, mining equipment, abandoned mines, and land disputes. Many of the letters are written from or related to San Francisco, St. Louis, Sierra County, and Marysville, California.
mssHM 60143-60312
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William G. Ritch collection of studio portraits of New Mexico officials and residents
Visual Materials
A collection of 145 photographs, primarily cabinet card studio portraits, of notable figures in 19th-century territorial New Mexico. Compiled by William Gillet Ritch, territorial secretary of New Mexico from 1873 to 1885, the photographs were originally in three albums, each with an incomplete handwritten index of names. The individuals pictured include territorial governors and officials, bishops and clergymen, military officers and militiamen, merchants, newspaper editors, and some studio portraits of Native Americans and photographs of Mexican and native artifacts. Most of the photographs are signed in ink by the sitter, and some are inscribed to the New Mexico Historical Society, which was formed in 1880 with W. G. Ritch as its first president. There are a few photographs of paintings or etchings, such as four portraits of Charles Bent (1799-1847), first governor of New Mexico Territory. The studio photographs include portraits of President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife, Lucy, and President James A. Garfield, which has printing on the mount: "Taken at Chicago, June 8, 1880, on the day he received the nomination for President." Figures of note in New Mexico include Manuel Garcia and Juan P. Romero, 1882 legislators; Jose Chaves y Castillo, acting governor in 1845; Robert Black, first mayor of Silver City, New Mexico; and Major Albert J. Fountain and Captain Francisco Salazar, posing with guns drawn and signed with "Campaigns against the Rustlers, 1883." Native Americans pictured are: Kiowa chief Big Bow with Santanoni and Tomion[?], a Mexican interpreter; two Isleta women; Wa-ja-to-ye, last governor of Pecos Pueblo; and Young Black Dog, Osage. There are 19 unidentified people, including one woman.
photCL 314
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William Edmund Pearce letter to William Baker Pearce
Manuscripts
In this letter to his father, William E. Pearce reports that he has been laid up with a sprained ankle. Much of the letter is concerned with his journey from Oregon to California. He has settled outside Nevada City and made a mining claim.
mssHM 20706