Jacob P. Leese papers and accounts, 1837-1849.

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Jacob P. Leese papers and accounts, 1837-1849.

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account books, one in Spanish, recording goods sold to William S. Hinckley, Nathan Spear, A.B. Thompson and others; cargo book for the brig Eveline; inventory of stock in store; drafts of letters to Sherman Peck and A.B. Thompson; letter from Eliab Grimes. record of construction costs for house in Sonoma; cattle inventory for Huichica Rancho; accounts with Henry Mellus, Thomas O. Larkin and others.

Originals : 2 volumes (0.8 linear feet)Volume 2 : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 953:11) and positive.

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Hinckley, William Sturgis, 1807-1846.

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Leese, Jacob P. (Jacob Primer), 1809-1892

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Merchant, of Yerba Buena, Calif. (1836-1840) and Monterey, Calif., from 1849, where he also served as city treasurer; from 1840 to 1849 he lived on his land grant in Sonoma County, Calif. From the description of Papers, 1836-1863. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28419813 Calif. merchant and official. Born in St. Clairsville, Ohio in 1809; came to Calif. in 1833, settling in Los Angeles in 1834. Relocated to Monterey, 1836, and entered into mercantile bus...

Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802-1858

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Thomas O. Larkin (1802-1858) was a merchant who settled in Monterey, California, who later became U.S. consul (1844-48) and served as a delegate to the California Constitutional Convention in 1849. From the description of Letter from Thomas Oliver Larkin to Job Francis Dye and party, 1845 Aug. 10. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499643 Thomas O. Larkin, early California pioneer, arrived in California in 1832. Became succe...

Mellus, Henry, 1815-1860,

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Peck, Sherman.

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Grimes, Eliab, 1779-1848,

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Spear, Nathan, 1802-1849.

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Biography Nathan Spear was born in Boston in 1802. In 1829 he went to the Sandwich Islands and in 1832, went to Monterey. He opened a store and engaged in coastal trade with the schooner "Nicolás." Spear, in partnership with Jacob Primer Leese and William Sturgis Hinckley opened a store in San Francisco in 1836, and moved there in 1838, leaving his Monterey store in charge of William R. Warren. The partnership was dissolved the sa...

Eveline (brig)

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Thompson, Alpheus B. (Alpheus Basil), 1797-1869.

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Alpheus Basil Thompson was born in 1797 in Topsham, Maine. From a shipping family, he went to Canton in 1821 and then to California to take part in the trade of goods between Calif. and China. His partner was John Coffin Jones, based in the Sandwich Islands. Thompson married Francisca Carrillo, a daughter of Carlos Antonio Carrillo, in 1834 in Santa Barbara. They had 2 daughters and 4 sons. Thompson died in 1869 in Los Angeles. From the description of Alpheus B. Thompson papers, 1825...