San Francisco town journal : ms, 1847-1848.

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San Francisco town journal : ms, 1847-1848.

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First financial record of San Francisco, kept by the elected treasurer, William A. Leidesdorff. The journal contains eleven pages of entries, recording cash received and expended, and expenditures for goods and services, including payments made for the salary of Alcalde George Hyde, the first survey of San Francisco by Jasper O'Farrell, and construction of streets, wharves, and the first schoolhouse. Journal also contains 2 p. of newspaper clippings pasted in from the Bakersfield Californian and San Jose Mercury Herald, May 1926, about the discovery of the journal in a bookshop.

1 oversize v. (126 p.) in leather slipcase.

California historical society

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Leidesdorff, William A. (William Alexander), 1810-1848

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William A. Leidesdorff, early California trader and official, was born in the Danish West Indies of a Danish father and mulatto mother. In 1841 he came to California as master of the ship "Julia Ann." He engaged in trade between Hawaii and San Francsico, and afterwards began a general exporting business in San Francisco. Leidesdorff became a Mexican citizen in 1844 and received a grant for Rancho Rio de los Americanos, east of Fort Sutter. The next year he was appointed vice-consul of the United...

San Francisco. Town Council.

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