Manuscripts
Agreement regarding lot in San Francisco
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Agreement for land
Manuscripts
This document concerns a piece in land in Yerba Buena, California, including occupancy and permitted construction. The agreement is between John Townsend, and Jacques Antoine Moerenhout and Cornelius De Boom, all of whom have signed the document.
mssHM 35205
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Blotter B: District record of land grants and deeds in the city of San Francisco
Manuscripts
The blotter includes land grants and deeds processed in San Francisco District from 1847 to 1849. The grants and deeds are signed by alcaldes George Hyde and Thaddeus Leavenworth. The list includes deeds involving Sam Brannan, John White Geary, Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, William A. Leidesdorff, Robert T. Ridley, and J. D. Stevenson. Some of the entries are accompanied by hand drawn plats.
mssHM 68413
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John Bidwell petition to John Augustus Sutter
Manuscripts
This manuscript is a petition for land to John Augustus Sutter from John Bidwell, on behalf of John Townsend. In Spanish. Map mentioned is with HM 31549.
mssHM 35189
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Document regarding the estate of W.A. Leidesdorff
Manuscripts
This document is a bond for administration of the estate of William Alexander Leidesdorff. It is authored by WIlliam Davis Merry Howard and Thomas Oliver Larkin, and is for the attention of John Townsend. It appears to be a template, as it included spaces for dates and signatures, but the spaces remain blank. Dated June, 1848.
mssHM 35199
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Abstract of title for lot in San Francisco on Mason near Bay Street
Manuscripts
mssHM 27996
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Thomas Oliver Larkin and Albert Packard. Memorandum of agreement regarding cargo of schooner "Galga." San Francisco, California
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
WN 2273.