Fitch Family Papers 1848-1895

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Fitch Family Papers 1848-1895

This collection includes a small collection of letters and documents including a letter from Sara Fitch to her son Captain Henry D. Fitch, some letters between Joseph McKinley and his grandmother Josefa Carrillo Fitch of Healdsburg, California concerning "Valle de los Palmas", and a Power of Attorney from Josefa Carrillo Fitch appointing General Mariano G. Vallejo as her lawyer.

4 folders

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SNAC Resource ID: 6654704

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University of California, Santa Cruz

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Organization history UCSC Colleges Cowell College, founded 1965 Adlai E. Stevenson College, founded 1966 Crown College, founded 1967 Merrill College, founded 1968 Benjamin F. Porter College, founded in 1969 as "College Five" and formally dedicated as "Benjamin F. Porter College" in 1981. Kresge College, ...

Fitch, Josefa Carrillo

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Fitch family

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Fitch, Henry Delano, 1799-1849.

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Biography Henry Delano Fitch, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1799, first came to California in about 1826 as master of the vessel Maria Ester, owned by Henry Edward Virmond of Mexico. Fitch was employed for a number of years by Virmond, trading along the west coast ports of north and South America. The earliest letters and documents of the collection deal with these activities. After his elopement with Josefa Carrillo in 18...