Guide to the Francis Ziba Branch Correspondence and Papers, 1837-1874
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Guide to the Francis Ziba Branch Correspondence and Papers, 1837-1874
Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 348
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Francis Ziba Branch Correspondence and Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1837-1874
Collection Number: Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 348
Creator:
Branch, Francis Ziba, 1802-1874
Extent:
Number of items: 111 items in box
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: A few family letters and personal memorandum books but mainly accounts for business and lands in San Luis Obispo Co. Early
accounts with pioneer merchants and ships; some reflect hide and tallow trade.
A few papers, 1875-1876, of his son-in-law, H.A. Sperry, with the above.
Languages Represented:
English
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[Identification of item], Francis Ziba Branch Correspondence and Papers, BANC MSS C-B 348, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Francis Ziba Branch's papers were placed in the Bancroft Library in 1943 by the Misses Eleanora and Margaret Branch of Arroyo
Grande
Biographical Sketch
Francis Ziba Branch was born in upstate New York in 1802 and left his family at an early age to make his own way in the world.
In 1830, after various experiences including sailing ventures on Lake Erie, he joined, at St. Louis, a trading party bound
for Santa Fe. While there Branch joined the Wolfshill trapping party and came with them to California in the Spring of 1831.
A few of the party decided to remain, Branch among them. He married Manuela Carlon in 1835 and he and his wife were granted
land in the vicinity of San Luis Obispo. Later, by right of his own grant and two others which he claimed through his wife's
family and by purchase, he became possessed of one of the largest land holdings in the county. His business prospered and
in 1874 he died, leaving a large family to share in a considerable estate.
Thompson, Alpheus Basil, 1798-1869
1837-48
McKinlay, James, 1803-1875
1841-1855
Physical Description: 8
Scope and Content Note
Include accounts for schooners,
Juanita and
Nimfa or
Nymph
Miscellaneous
1842-46
Physical Description: 5
Scope and Content Note
Including accounts for bark, Tasso, receipted by Elliot Libbey and John H. Everett, order from Daniel A. Hill, receipted by
Henry Mellus; undated hide and tallow account; receipt for hides and tallow from Scott & Wilson -i.e. James Scott and John
Wilson
California (ship)
1842-47
Physical Description: 5
Scope and Content Note
Mainly accounts with W. D. M. Howard; one receipt from Curtis Clap
Huerta, José Antonio
1843?
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
Receipt for Carlon family debt.
Paty & Company
1843-47
Physical Description: 10
Scope and Content Note
Include accounts, bark, Don Quixote
Sterling (ship)
1845-46
Physical Description: 3
Scope and Content Note
Bills and receipts signed by Thomas B. Park, Frederick Teschemacher -for Henry Mellus, and by G. H. Vincent
San Luis Obispo tax bills
1850-67
Physical Description: 13
Scope and Content Note
City, county and state taxes
Surveying and legal accounts for lands
1851-58
Physical Description: 3
Scope and Content Note
Receipted bills from M. R. Hutton, D. F. Newsom and Hinchman & Hoar, legal firm
Howe, Elisha H.
1853-56
Physical Description: 4
Scope and Content Note
(Including tax receipts)
Miscellaneous
1884-68
Physical Description: 8
Scope and Content Note
Including promissory note to A. Blochman & Company
Sparks, Isaac J.
1858-65
Physical Description: 19 pieces
Scope and Content Note
Mortgages, notes, receipts and accounts -some in Albert Packard's handwriting
Tuition bills
1857-71
Physical Description: 3
Scope and Content Note
Receipted bills from Caroline McLeod, 1857-1858; from S. S. Harmon, Santa Barbara College, 1871
Miscellaneous
ca. 1870-74
Physical Description: 9 pieces
Correspondence and miscellaneous Papers
Family letters
1852-54
Physical Description: 2
Scope and Content Note
From nephews, Francis G. Guild, 1852, and Ziba Branch Guild -written, 1854, for Huldah Branch who signed postscript on p.2
Sperry, H. A. Correspondence
1875-76
Physical Description: 7
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter, 1875, from his uncle, Austin Sperry, 1819-1881.
San Luis Obispo Co., Calif. Residents, Arroyo
Grande Road District, no. 1.
n.d.
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
Draft petition
Memorandum and note books of F. Z. Branch
volume vol. 1
Memorandum book
1859-63
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous accounts and daily entries -in 1889 pocket diary
volume vol. 2
Accounts with Blochman & Company
1864-66
volume vol. 5
Memorandum book
1868-69
Scope and Content Note
Stock record and some daily entries
volume vol. 7
Accounts (mainly labor)
1868-72
volume vol. 8
Accounts (miscellaneous)
1870-72
volume vol. 9
Accounts (miscellaneous)
1872-74
volume vol. 10
Memoranda and accounts
1871-73
