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Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948. San Francisco early documents scrapbook, 1838-1877.

Title: San Francisco early documents scrapbook, 1838-1877.

Letters, invoices, billheads, receipts, legal documents, and other papers relating to early San Francisco and signed by pioneer residents, compiled by an unknown editor, with pasted-in comments. Most of the items relate to the business affairs of William A. Leidesdorff and Joseph L. Folsom, and to their estates. Includes several letters and a speech written by William M. Gwin. Other persons represented include: J.W. Geary, George Hyde, Thomas O. Larkin, W.D.M. Howard, James S. Townsend, John Parrott, Hall McAllister, and Benjamin Belloc.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize v. (172 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122544637 View

Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948. Joseph L. Folsom collection, 1834-1870.

Title: Joseph L. Folsom collection, 1834-1870.

Primarily legal papers relating to the estate of William A. Leidesdorff, which Folsom purchased from Leidesdorff's mother, Anna Maria Spark, and to Folsom's suit against Mrs. Spark after she refused to accept the agreement she made to sell the estate to him. Includes mortgages, indentures, and city tax bills documenting Folsom's property ownership; some material relating to his position as assistant quartermaster with the U.S. Army; and papers concerning Folsom's estate, handled by his executors, Henry W. Halleck, Archibald C. Peachy, and P. Warren Van Winkle.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499096 View

Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872. William A. Leidesdorff collection, 1834-1857.

Title: William A. Leidesdorff collection, 1834-1857.

Correspondence (1845-1847) as vice-consul; correspondence, account books, orders, and receipts (1834-1848) reflecting Leidesdorff's activities as a merchant in Yerba Buena (later San Francisco); papers relating to Leidesdorff's land grant, Rio de los Americanos, and the legal battle between Joseph L. Folsom and Anna Maria Spark, Leidesdorff's mother, regarding the inheritance of Leidesdorff's estate; and papers of Henry W. Halleck from his law practice with Halleck, Peachy, and Billings, consisting of Halleck's drafts for clients' land grant claims and other legal documents, some dealing with Leidesdorff's grant.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122381754 View