Bills of lading for items shipped to and from San Francisco, Calif., 1850-1852.

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Bills of lading for items shipped to and from San Francisco, Calif., 1850-1852.

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March 30, 1850. Bill of lading for 750 ounces of gold (at $16 per) shipped from San Francisco to Panama for Macondray & Co. aboard the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. steamer, California, signed by Thomas Budd, the Captain. The value of shipment was placed at $12,000. With paper and wax seal of Macondray & Co. attached. June 10, 1851. Bill of lading for one cask of merchandise, shipped from Liverpool, England to San Francisco, aboard the McGachen & Co. vessel, Salem, signed by Benjamin Hague, the Captain. August 3, 1852. Bill of lading for seven sugar boxes earthenware shipped from Boston, Mass. to San Francisco aboard the Glidden & Williams California packet ship, Winged Arrow, Franklin Bearse, Master, and signed "Glidden & Williams for the Captain." In the upper left of the bill is a woodcut drawing depicting two Glidden & Williams Packets ships, the company name, and the name of their San Francisco agents.

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Winged Arrow (Ship)

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company

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The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was incorporated in 1848 to engage in the steamship business after receiving a contract from the U.S. government to provide mail service between Panama and the Oregon coast. The organizer and first president of the company was William H. Aspinwall. The company prospered, expanded its fleet, and began service to the Orient in 1867. By the mid-1880s they were sailing to 47 ports across the Pacific Ocean, including ports in Central America and Mexico. T...

Salem (Ship)

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Hague, Benjamin.

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Macondray & Company (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Bearse, Franklin.

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Budd, Thomas D.

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California (Ship : 1842-1889)

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Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass.; mastered by Daniel D. Wood; agent-owner: I. Howland Jr. & Co.; built at New Bedford, 1842; rerigged to bark, 1889; later out of San Francisco (1893-1905). From the description of Logbooks of the ship California, 1851 Oct. 22-1854 Oct. 9. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 341761908 Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by George F. Brightman, on voyage 17 July 1886-28 Oct. 1889, to the ...

McGachen & Company (Liverpool, England)

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Glidden & Williams (Boston, Mass.)

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