Sarah G. Wilcox letter : Stockton, Calif. to friends, 1856 Dec 2.

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Sarah G. Wilcox letter : Stockton, Calif. to friends, 1856 Dec 2.

Describes voyage from the east coast to California through the Isthmus of Panama aboard the ship Illinois and then the steamer The Golden Age; compares San Francisco with cities back east.

4 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6818262

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Wilcox, Sarah G.

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Illinois (Ship)

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Whaling vessel, out of Sag Harbor, N.Y., mastered by Daniel Jagger, on voyage from 4 July 1845-27 Aug. 1847 to the Tristan, East Cape, Dutch Banks, New Holland, New Zealand, Japan, and Malishes Banks whaling grounds; owner-agent: John Budd; built at New York, N.Y., 1826; bought from New York, N.Y., 1843, for the Sag Harbour, N.Y. whaling fleet (1843-1850); sold to New Bedford, Mass, 1850; whaling as ship out of New Bedford (1850-1869); altered to a bark ca. 1872; sunk in Arctic in 1876. ...

Golden Age (Steamer)

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