Letter to Nathan Spear : Yerba Buena : ALS, 1845 Aug. 10.
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Hinckley, William Sturgis, 1807-1846.
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Honeyman, Robert B.
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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...