Documentos para la historia de California, 1827-1856.

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Documentos para la historia de California, 1827-1856.

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Letters and financial papers such as bills of lading, invoices, statements of account, etc., relating to Fitch's commercial transactions and business affairs in San Diego; trading voyages up and down the California coast, to Mexico and to Hawaii; otter hunting and the hide and tallow trade. A few letters relate to the war with Mexico, the gold discoveries in California and his ranch in Sonoma County. Included also are some papers of his wife, Josefa (Carrillo) Fitch.

Originals: 3 boxes, 5 oversize folders (1.85 linear feet)Copies: 3 microfilm reels : negative (Rich. 418:1-3) and positive.Photocopies from microfilm: 4 volumes (0.4 linear feet)

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Online Archive of California

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Fitch, Josefa Carrillo

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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...