Freeman (Martha Ann) Papers, 1905

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Summary

Title:
Freeman, Martha Ann Papers
Dates:
1905
Creators:
Freeman, Martha Ann, b.1837?
Abstract:
15 handwritten pages. Written in 1905, Martha Ann Freeman's recollection of her family's five month journey in 1854 to California from Missouri crossing Platte River and Sierra Mountains. Papers contain geographic information on the journey and lists of provisions and cooking methods. Also information on daily life while travelling: fear of Indian attacks, guarding cattle, crossing the desert and mountains and bridgeless rivers and streams.
Containers:
Box: B001392
Folder: C058853
Extent:
1.0 folder (1 recollection)
Language:
Preferred citation:

The Martha Ann Freeman Papers. The Society of California Pioneers.

Background

Scope and content:

15 handwritten pages. Written in 1905, Martha Ann Freeman's recollection of her family's five month journey in 1854 to California from Missouri crossing Platte River and Sierra Mountains. Papers contain geographic information on the journey and lists of provisions and cooking methods. Also information on daily life while travelling: fear of Indian attacks, guarding cattle, crossing the desert and mountains and bridgeless rivers and streams.

She names her travelling party thusly: 1. Burden, Mr. and wife and child 2. Cook, John of Lexington, MO 3. Earl, James of Lexington, MO 4. Freeman, Dr. H.K.- Father 5. Freeman, Grandfather and his second wife and her son William Gibson 6. Freeman, Uncle James and family 7. Freeman, Uncle Thomas and family 8. Hather, Philip (?) and wife and child 9. Hurley, John and wife and child 10. Leeper, Mr.(Jim) 11. Lovell, Hiram and family (Mrs. Burden's brother) 12. Nett (?)- Mrs. Burden's brother 13. Newman, Uncle William and family 14. Underwood, Joe 15. Burden, Buchanan - child 16. Freeman, Susie (later Mrs. Susie Drais of San Francisco) - child 17. Greenhalge, Mr. - head man of another train 18. Hather, Johnnie - child 19. Hurley, Torrance - child

Biographical / historical:

Martha Ann Freeman, at seventeen years old, left Rosehill Johnson County, Missouri on May 18, 1854 with her family. Her father was Doctor H.K. Freeman, and he was the one who decided to move the family out west. They settled in Solano County at the mouth of Cash Creek Slough on the Sacramento Road, about twelve miles outside of Sacramento on October 18, 1854. The following summer she and her family relocated to a house in San Joaquin County in a town twelve miles east of Stockton, later named Linden. Martha Ann Freeman's married name was Martha Ann Wootten.

Acquisition information:
Donor and date of acquisition unknown.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Unknown / Michael Lange
Date Prepared:
06/11/2002
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2014-01-23T16:38-0800

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions on access.

Preferred citation:

The Martha Ann Freeman Papers. The Society of California Pioneers.

Location of this collection:
300 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107, US
Contact:
(415) 957-1849 ext. 160
mmdevine@californiapioneers.org
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