Samuel Brannan land transfer papers, 1865-1870.

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Samuel Brannan land transfer papers, 1865-1870.

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Three documents: transfer of swamp and overflowed lands in San Joaquin County from Samuel Brannan to A.G. Kimbell on Oct. 25, 1865, transfer of same land from Kimbell to John Rueger on June 23, 1866, and transfer of same land from Rueger to S. Clinton Hastings on March 13, 1868. Accompanied by three documents of notarization, interattached by wafer seals, folded together, and recorded in San Joaquin County at the request of Wells Fargo & Co. on Feb. 28, 1870. Also included are an envelope that some or all of this material was apparently shipped in from Forest H. Sweet of Battle Creek, MI to Dr. C.W. Olsen of Chicago in 1957, and a sale folder with a description of some of the same items from Parke-Bernet galleries in New York.

Documents, envelope, and folder ; 8 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.

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Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889

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Sam Brannan (1819-1889) was born in Maine and moved to Ohio as a teenager. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1844 began printing The Prophet, a Mormon newspaper, in New York. In 1846 Brannan sailed aboard the Brooklyn with about 240 other Mormons to San Francisco, where he was made first president of the California mission and established the California Star as the first newspaper in San Francisco. In 1848 Brannan traveled to Sutter's Mill as a representative of th...