Oregon document miscellany, 1843-1864.

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Oregon document miscellany, 1843-1864.

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Collection includes receipts, bills, forms, IOUs, a subpoena, deeds, maps, claims, and a draft of a bill belonging to several prominent Oregon men, including several governors. George Abernethy's signature appears on a bill and a receipt dated 1843 and 1845. La Fayette Grover's signature is on a subpoena for Thomas Watson in 1852. There is a draft of a relief bill to reimburse John P. Gaines for expenses incurred while meeting and treating with the Rogue River Indians (or Tututni Indians) in Oregon in 1851. There are two IOUs and one deed belonging to Benjamin Stark dated 1858-1861. There is a group of nine items belonging to Daniel H. Lownsdale, including deeds, IOUs, and two maps, one a plat map of Portland Township No. 1, and another a plat map of his land claims in Portland drawn on silk by C. Burrage in 1864. Other items include an assessment of the population of Multnomah County, Oregon Territory dated August 1855, and a receipt for four dozen bottles of champagne signed by Noyes Smith. Several items are mounted.

0.25 linear ft. (1 box + 1 broadside)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8016752

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Grover, LaFayette, 1823-1911.

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Smith, Noyes.

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Lownsdale, Daniel H., active 1848-1858

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Gaines, John Pollard, 1795-1857

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Lawyer, soldier, aide-de-camp to General Winfield Scott, territorial governor of the Oregon territory. Gaines was born in Augusta Co. Va. and moved with his family to Boone Co. Ky. shortly thereafter. He served in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. In 1850 President Taylor appointed him governor of the Oregon Territory. He died in Oregon in 1857. From the description of Papers, 1832-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536766 John Pollard Gaines was born (September 22, ...

Abernethy, George, 1807-1877

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George Abernethy was born in New York City on October 7, 1807. He married Anne Cope in 1830 and accompanied Reverend Jason Lee to Oregon in 1840, where he was placed in charge of the mission store at Willamette Falls. Abernethy encouraged lumbering and fisheries and established commercial connections with the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, California and the Atlantic coast. He was elected provisional governor of Oregon in 1845 and was reelected in 1847. In 1861 a flood wiped out most of his physic...

Stark, Benjamin, 1820-1898

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Benjamin Stark was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 26, 1820, and attended school in New London, Connecticut. In 1845 he sailed for Oregon, where he purchased an interest in a Portland land claim. Later he entered a New York business partnership to ship merchandise to California during the gold rush. When the New York parent company went bankrupt, Stark was only able to salvage his Portland property. In 1850 he moved to Portland and married Elizabeth Molthrop in 1854. He was appointed to c...