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Mott-Von Schmidt family papers, circa 1849-1899.
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Mott-Von Schmidt family papers, circa 1849-1899Mott Von Schmidt family papers
Creator/Contributor:
Mott, Isaac T.Creator/Contributor:
Von Schmidt, A. W. (Alexis Waldemar), 1821-1906Creator/Contributor:
Bidwell, John, 1819-1900, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Gillespie, Eugene F., correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson), 1816-1899, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880Creator/Contributor:
Sargent, A. A. (Aaron Augustus), 1827-1887, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879Creator/Contributor:
Hoyt, Charles H., d. 1897, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Von Schmidt family.Creator/Contributor:
Mott family.Abstract:
Letters and documents of Isaac T. Mott and his son-in-law, Alexis W. von Schmidt, relating primarily to litigation involving
Johnson's Rancho in Yuba County in the 1850s and to von Schmidt's survey work. Included are copies or drafts of letters written
by them; letters (some copies) from John Bidwell, Eugene F. Gillespie, Stephen J. Field, John A. Sutter, Aaron A. Sargent,
Caleb Cushing, Charles H. Hoyt and others; documents relating to the land case involving the Rancho; papers relating to von
Schmidt's work on the California boundary survey, 1853-1857, and three survey notebooks, one of which also contains his journal
for a Sierra trip, 1856; miscellaneous financial and legal papers, etc.; and Edward A. von Schmidt's survey transit notebook,
1874.
Date:
1849 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLand tenure -- California -- Yuba County
Surveyors -- California
Géomètres -- Californie
Boundaries
Land tenure
Surveyors
Johnson's Ranch (Calif.)
California -- Boundaries
California
California -- Johnson's Ranch
California -- Yuba County
Von Schmidt family -- Archives
Mott family -- Archives
Mott family
Note:
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Maps transferred to the map collection of The Bancroft Library. Technical drawing transferred to the Pictorial Collections
of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1956.011--B).
Preferred citation: Mott-Von Schmidt family papers, BANC MSS C-B 583, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Archives.Notebooks.
Diaries.
Physical Description:
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1 box (0.4 linear feet)
Language:
English