Letters and documents, 1850.

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Letters and documents, 1850.

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Letters and documents addressed primarily to William M. Eddy, Town Surveyor, concerning the surveying of city lots. There are two copies of a resolution of Jan. 30, 1850 forbidding the surveyor to survey lots granted by G. Colton; one notice was apparently posted in the public square. With a notice of grant of two city lots in San Francisco signed by John W. Geary, an ALS from T. M. Leavenworth to W. M. Eddy, and a notice of city lots reserved for public use and not to be sold, signed by Eddy.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Eddy, William M.

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Colton, G. Q. 1814-1898.

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Geary, John White, 1819-1873

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John W. Geary was a lawyer, politician and Union general in the Civil War (1861-1865). He was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania on 30 December 1819. After serving as a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War (1846-1848), Geary went to California for the 1849 gold rush. While in California, Geary became the first governor of San Francisco from 1850 to 1851 and was later governor of the Kansas Territory from 1856-1857. Following his term as governor, Geary returned to Pennsylvania and w...

San Francisco (Calif.). Town Council.

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