Fitch family papers, 1849-1852.

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Fitch family papers, 1849-1852.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35007701

Consists of legal papers and receipts relating to San Diego business activities of Dona Josefa Fitch, Henry E. Fitch and Frederick Fitch (1849-1852).

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University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7368159

University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library

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Carrillo family.

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Fitch, Henry Sheldon

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Fitch, Josefa Carrillo, 1810-1893.

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Fitch, Frederick.

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Fitch family.

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Henry Delano Fitch (1799-1849) was an American ship's captain, who, after much difficulty over his Protestant religion, succeeded in marrying Josefa Carrillo of San Diego, California (1830). Fitch became a merchant in that city, at one time, owning Coronado Beach and also San Francisco land on which Golden Gate Park now stands. He eventually received a large land grant near Healdsburg in Sonoma County (1844) and settled there for the rest of his life. Fitch was a brother-in-law of Mariano Guadal...

Fitch, Henry Delano, 1799-1849.

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Biography Henry Delano Fitch, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1799, first came to California in about 1826 as master of the vessel Maria Ester, owned by Henry Edward Virmond of Mexico. Fitch was employed for a number of years by Virmond, trading along the west coast ports of north and South America. The earliest letters and documents of the collection deal with these activities. After his elopement with Josefa Carrillo in 18...