Bond document for John Heard Couch and Hugh O'Bryant [manuscript], 1849 December 6.

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Bond document for John Heard Couch and Hugh O'Bryant [manuscript], 1849 December 6.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320565831

Document, possibly signed by John Heard Couch and Hugh O'Bryant, pioneers of Portland, Oregon, regarding a bond for the holding of a Federal office.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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O'Bryant, Hugh D.

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Couch, John Heard, 1811-1870.

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John Heard Couch (1811-1870) was an Oregon pioneer, sea captain, merchant, a founder of the city of Portland, and progenitor of an important and influential Oregon family line. During the 1840s he sailed merchant ships financed by John Cushing from his hometown of Newburyport, Massachusetts with supplies for establishing a dry goods business in Oregon. In 1845 he claimed a square mile of land on the Willamette River in the heart of what became Portland. From the description of Logboo...