DeWitt Clinton Thompson deeds, 1849.

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DeWitt Clinton Thompson deeds, 1849.

Includes 2 deeds from Samuel Brannan, May, 1849 for lots in Stanislaus, and one from Charles V. Gillespie to Thompson and Frederick Billings for a lot in Benicia, June 1, 1849.

1 portfolio (3 items).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8214022

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Billings, Frederick, 1823-1890

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Billings was a San Francisco lawyer; partners with Archibald Peachy and H.W. Halleck, of the firm Halleck, Peachy and Billings, which specialized in cases involving land titles. From the description of Frederick Billings legal journal and miscellaneous papers, 1850-1869. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 86128672 Frederick Billings went to California in 1849 and began a law practice in San Francisco. He became a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad in...

Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889

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Sam Brannan (1819-1889) was born in Maine and moved to Ohio as a teenager. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1844 began printing The Prophet, a Mormon newspaper, in New York. In 1846 Brannan sailed aboard the Brooklyn with about 240 other Mormons to San Francisco, where he was made first president of the California mission and established the California Star as the first newspaper in San Francisco. In 1848 Brannan traveled to Sutter's Mill as a representative of th...

Thompson, De Witt C. (De Witt Clinton), b. 1826.

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Gillespie, Charles Albert

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