Guide to the Nathan Spear papers, 1802-1849
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Guide to the Nathan Spear Papers, 1802-1849
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Letters written by Nathan Spear relating to business matters, 1837-1845.
Scope and Content Note
Letter book, 1836-1841.
Copies of letters to Job Dye, John Gilroy, Thomas Oliver Larkin, John Marsh, John Augustus Sutter, and others.
Scope and Content Note
Letters to Nathan Spear, unless otherwise noted. Arranged alphabetically.
see
List of Letters to Nathan Spear
Accounts (ships)
Account of sales of merchandise shipped on the "Avon," "Clementine," "Crusader," "Don Quixote," and "Iolani,” [1832-1837].
Account of sales and merchandise shipped on the "Avon," "Bolivar," "Clarion," "Clementine," "Don Quixote," and "Iolani," 1834-1837.
Invoice of merchandise shipped on the "Crusader," and invoices of business transactions between Nathan Spear and William Sturgis Hinckley, 1832-1839.
Invoices of merchandise shipped on the "Clementine," 1835-1836.
Invoices of merchandise shipped on the "Diana," [ca. 1837-1840].
Invoices of merchandise shipped on the "Clarion," 1837-ca. 1840.
Invoices of merchandise shipped on the "Avon," "California," "Corsair," and "Iolani," 1835-ca. 1840.
Accounts (individuals)
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Account books (individuals)
Includes accounts of Isaac Graham, John Coffin Jones, and David Spence; also the ships "California," "Clementine," and "Europa," 1835-1840.
Sundry accounts and bills received from Messrs. Leese & Co., 1838.
Accounts of Edward Turner Bale and William Alexander Leidesdorff, 1836-1847.
Includes accounts of Edward Turner Bale, William Davis Merry Howard and William Alexander Leidesdorff, 1845-1848.
Accounts of Edward Turner Bale, John Calvert Davis, George C. Yount, and other Napa Valley residents, 1845-1848.
Accounts of William French and Joseph O. Carter; also accounts of several ships and copy of a letter to Benjamin Pitman, 1838-1842.
Account of Stephen Smith, 1845.
Includes accounts of John Coffin Jones, Jacob Primer Leese, and Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, 1834-1838.
Includes accounts of Juan Bautista Alvarado, John Bautista Rogers Cooper, William Edward Petty Hartnell, Thomas Oliver Larkin, and David Spence, 1833-1835.
Includes accounts of Domingo Feliz, William Johnson, and John Augustus Sutter, 1839-1845.
Includes accounts of Edward Turner Bale and William Alexander Leidesdorff, 1835-1846.
Includes accounts of William Heath Davis, Antonio Mara Pico, and Thomas Shaw, with most items deleted, 1838-1842.
Miscellaneous papers, ca. 1836-1849.
Account of stock in Monterey store, indicating stock consigned to Nathan Spear by William Sturgis Hinckley with list of people owing on purchase of articles consigned by Hinckley, ca. 1836.
Agreement between Nathan Spear, William Sturgis Hinckley, and Jacob Primer Leese to form a company, ca.1836.
Papers concerning settlements of accounts by Jacob Primer Leese with Nathan Spear and William Sturgis Hinckley, 1836-ca. 1840.
Deed of sale of Jacob Primer Leese's schooner "Nicolás" to Nathan Spear, witnessed by Victor Prudon and certified by William Richardson, 1838.
Copy of promissory note, 1839, from Jacob Primer Leese to William Sturgis Hinckley and Nathan Spear with Hinckley's release of his share to Spear and certified a true copy by Thomas Oliver Larkin, U. S. Consul, Monterey, with consular seal affixed. 1845.
Draft of petition by Nathan Spear for legal action to force Jacob Primer Leese to pay his debt, 1845.
Draft of power of attorney from Nathan Spear to Joseph P. Thompson, 1848.
Draft of lease to Charles O. Southard and Thomas J. Roach for a portion of Nathan Spear's Napa ranch; copy of deed from Nathan Spear to Edward A. King for property on Yerba Buena Island; quit claim deed from Nathan Spear to Stephen Reynolds for the Guenoc Ranch, certified by John W. Geary, alcalde of San Francisco, 1849.
Flügge, Charles William, d. 1852
Letter, Sept. 2, 1843
Hinckley, William Sturgis, 1807-1846
14 letters, 1833-1836
Leese, Jacob Primer, 1809-1892
14 letters, 1836-ca. 1840
Peck, Sherman
Letter, Sept. 29, 1835
Pedrorena, Miguel, ca. 1808-1850
Letter, Sept. 28, 1840
Phelps, William Dane
2 letters, 1842
Reynolds, Stephen W., 1782-1857
31 letters, 1830-1847
Spear, William N., 1846-1884
Letter, Apr. 15, 1872, to Hubert Howe Bancroft
Spence, David, 1798-1875
Letter, Sept. 22, 1841
Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
5 letters, 1844-1847
Thompson, Alpheus Basil, 1797-1869
Letter, Aug. 9, 1834
Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890
5 letters, 1839-1844
Bale, Edward Turner, 1811-1849
4 items, 1838-1848
Covarrubias José María, 1801-1870
1 item, 1839
Fitch, Henry Delano, 1799-1849
1 item, 1841
Guerrero y Palomares, Francisco, 1811-1851
18 items, 1838-1843
Herrera, José María, 1803-
3 items, 1836
Hinckley, William Sturgis, 1807-1846
21 items, 1830-1845
Jones, John Coffin
5 items, 1834-ca. 1840
Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802-1858
1 item, 1845
Leidesdorff, William Alexander, 1810-1848
3 items, 1845-1848
Limantour, José Yves, d. 1885
1 item, 1842
McKinley, James, 1803-1875
3 Items, 1840-1847
Pedrorena, Miguel, ca. 1808-1850
2 items, 1843
Prudon, Victor, 1809?-
6 items, ca. 1840
Reynolds, Stephen W., 1782-1857
2 items, 1835-1837
Smith, Stephen, 1786-1855
4 items, 1843-1845
Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
3 items, 1841-1843
Thompson, Alpheus Basil, 1797-1869
4 items, 1833-1845
Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890
1 item, 1836-1837
Vallejo, Salvador, 1814-1876
12 items, 1839-1843