Documentos para la historia de California, 1827-1858 [Fitch, Henry D.], 1827-1858

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Title:
Documentos para la historia de California,
Dates:
1827-1858
Creators:
Fitch, Henry Delano, 1799-1849
Abstract:
Letters and financial papers such as bills of lading, invoices, statements of account, etc., relating to Fitch's commercial transactions and business affairs in San Diego; trading voyages up and down the California coast, to Mexico and to Hawaii; otter hunting and the hide and tallow trade. A few letters relate to the war with Mexico, the gold discoveries in California and his ranch in Sonoma County. Included also are some papers of his wife, Josefa (Carrillo) Fitch.
Extent:
Number of containers: 3 boxes and 5 oversize folders (also 4 volumes of photocopies from microfilm) Number of microfilm reels: 3
Language:
Collection materials are in Spanish
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Documentos para la historia de California, BANC MSS C-B 55, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Biographical / historical:

Henry Delano Fitch, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1799, first came to California in about 1826 as master of the vessel Maria Ester, owned by Henry Edward Virmond of Mexico. Fitch was employed for a number of years by Virmond, trading along the west coast ports of north and South America. The earliest letters and documents of the collection deal with these activities.

After his elopement with Josefa Carrillo in 1829, Fitch settled in San Diego, soon becoming the principal trader of that port, a position he maintained until his death in 1848. Although Fitch took an active part in local affairs, holding various offices at different times, his deepest interest was in his commercial enterprises.

Physical location:
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Indexed terms

Indexes:

Alphabetical list of authors and/or signers of documents

Abrego, José, 1813-1878 Folders 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 173
Aguirre, José Antonio, 1793-1854 Folders 42, 47, 52, 53, 67-68, 100, 140, 185, 326
Alexander & Mellus, San Pedro Folder 544
Allan, George T. Folder 418
Allen, Robert, 1812-1886 Folder 612
Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882 Folder 98
Álvarez, Miguel Folder 603
Anselin, Alfred, d. 1853 Folder 599
Arce, Santiago Diego Folder 324
Argüello, Jose R. Folder 438
Argüello, Santiago, 1791-1862 Folders, 30, 135, 194
Argüello, Santiago E., 1813-1857 Folders 94, 439, 523
Armenta, Estanislao Folders 182, 187
Arther, James P. Folders 294, 395, 404, 427, 514
Austin & Co., San Francisco Folder 310
Bandini, Juan, 1800-1857 Folders 61, 78, 96, 263, 377, 385
Barker, John F. Folder 599
Bartlett, D. H. Folder 179
Bassham, William R., 1822?- Folder 475
Beatty, John Folder 107
Becher, Frederick G. Folder 17
Beristaín, Máximo Folder 29
Bidwell, John, 1819-1900 Folder 401
Boardman, E. H. Folder 440
Boggs, Lilburn W., 1792-1860 Folder 611
Bona, Tomás Folder 459
Boronda, María Josefa Folder 140
Brewer, Charles, 1804- Folders 278, 283, 291, 292, 552
Briggs, Joseph G. Folder 598
Bull, John C. Folder 600
Canfield, Cyrus C. Folder 486
Carrillo, José Antonio Ezequiel, 1796-1862 Folder 271
Carrillo, José Ramón Folder 219
Carrillo, María Ignacia (López) Folder 81
Carrillo, Pedro C. Folder 421
Carson, Moses B., 1805- Folders 378, 406, 422-423, 604-605
Célis, Eulogio, d. 1868 Folders 93, 97, 103, 104, 105, 106
Chiene, Alexander Folder 373
Clap, Curtis Folder 236
Clark, Hiram Folders 487, 490
Clift, Robert Folders 442, 443, 496, 468
Cloud, Jeremiah H., d. 1847 Folder 419-420
Cooper, John Bautista Rogers, 1792-1872 Folder 161
Covarrubias, José María, 1801-1870 Folders 358, 371
Curley, William Folders 255, 498
Dalton, Henry, 1805- Folders 485, 503-505, 521 bis.
Dana, William Goodwin, 1787-1858 Folder 41
Dare, Robert H. Folders 90, 144
Davis, John Calvert, 1819-ca. 1848 Folder 276
Davis, William Heath, 1822-1909 Folders 312, 386, 413-414, 463
Delano, William H. Folder 479-480
DeWitt & Harrison, San Francisco Folders 539, 550
Don Quixote Company Folder 308-309
Duarte, Perfecto Folder 295
Duhugon (T)y Canin, Mazatlán Folder 407
DuPont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865 Folder 397
Eaton, Joseph B. Folder 176
Espinosa, Alejo Folder 325
Espinosa, José Luciano Folder 365
Evans, William Folder 520-521
Everett, John H. Folders 273, 280, 302, 316
Everett, T. C. Folder 471
Everett & Co., Honolulu Folders 520 bis, 551
Falkner, E. R. Folders 529, 531, 533, 536, 542
Fisher, Charles Folders 286, 287, 290
Fisher, William, d. 1850 Folders 449 bis, 492
Fitch, Frederic Folder 527
Fitch, Henry Delano, 1799-1849 Folders 8, 22-24, 40, 85-86, 31, 32, 47, 108, 109, 115-117, 125, 126, 127, 128, 148, 156, 184, 186, 192, 196, 197, 205, 206, 215, 234-235, 238, 249, 255, 296, 304, 305, 317, 338, 342-343, 344, 348, 354-357, 362, 368-369, 374, 384, 419-420, 428-429, 431, 443, 444, 445, 447, 452, 453, 470, 473, 491, 494, 497, 510-511, 520-521, 522, 534, 546, 547, 589 bis, 590, 613, 616
Fitch, Henry Edward, 1830- Folder 610
Fitch, Josefa (Carrillo) de, 1810- Folders 602, 612
Fitch, Sarah (Delano), d. 1847 Folders 43, 174, 364
Flügge, Charles William, d. 1852 Folders 225, 284, 318, 320, 322, 328, 330, 330 bis, 332-333, 334, 339, 363, 372, 376, 450, 455, 456-457
Forbes, William Folders 152, 167, 601
Freeman, Richard Folder 418-420
Frisbie, John B., 1824- Folder 611
Fuller, William M. Folder 453
Garner, William A. Folder 445
Gastelum, Francisco Xavier Folders 37, 65
Gillespie, Archibald H., 1813-1873 Folders 400, 402
Gillespie, Charles V. Folder 548
González, José Rafael Folders 128, 129
Green, Talbot H., 1810-1889 Folders 379, 523 bis
Guerra, Pablo Andrés Antonio María Saturnino, 1819-1874 Folder 126
Guerra y Noriega, José de la Folder 41
Hall, Hatevil Folder 255
Hamley, George W. Folders 454, 462
Hartnell, William Edward Petty, 1798-1854 Folder 101-102
Hatch, James B. Folder 446
Hensley, Samuel J., 1817-1866 Folder 419-420
Hewett, George Folder 255
Higuera, Nicolás Folder 272
Howard, William Davis Merry, 1819-1856 Folders 303, 316, 340, 390, 393, 464, 594
Hubbard, Eliza (Fitch) Folder 172
Hubbard, Jenison J. Folder 172
Hudsons Bay Company Folder 418
Hüttmann, Francis Folder 469
Hunnewell, James, 1794-1869 Folders 329, 359
Jarvis, James Jackson Folders 495, 500
Johnson, Publius R. Folder 548
Johnson, William Folder 458
Jordan, Lino Folder 220
Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1834-1898 Folder 125
Lascano, V. Folder 18
Lataillade, Cesáreo, 1819-1849 Folders 232, 326, 588
Leandry, Juan B., 1804-1843 Folder 50
Light, Allen B. Folder 390
Limantour, José Yves, d. 1885 Folder 327
Little, Milton, 1812-1879 Folder 315
López, José Elias Folder 434
Lyons, George Folder 224
Machado, Yeoward y Cia, Mazatlán Folder 157
MacRay, W. R. Isaacs Folder 612
McKenzie, Daniel Folder 275
McKinlay, James, 1803-1875 Folders 38, 79, 80, 84, 90, 144, 156, 238, 344, 346-347, 348, 354-357
Mactavish, Dugald Folders 396, 477
Mancilla, Agustín Folders 163, 170, 177, 191, 245
Manríquez, Julián Folder 434
March, William J. Folders 452, 453
Marrón, Juan María Folder 255
Mellus, Henry, 1815-1860 Folders 57, 58, 91-92, 169, 231, 288, 387, 403, 405, 415, 417, 430, 501, 518-519
Mellus & Howard, San Francisco Folders 532, 596
Menchaca, Ramón Folder 217
Minor, George Folders 419-420, 426
Möller (JB) & Co., Mazatlán Folder 155
Montgomery, John Berrien, 1794-1873 Folders 394, 412
Moreno, José Matías, 1817-1869 Folder 319
Mott, J. Thomas Folders 432, 482, 553-554
Negociación, Trina Folders 261-262, 506-508
Norton, R. Folder 207-214
Nye, Gorham H., 1802-1878 Folder 311
Orbell, James, 1813- Folders 166, 221, 222, 237
Osio, Antonio María Folders 141, 189
Osio, José de Jesús Folders 282, 437
Park, Thomas B., d. ca. 1850 Folders 74, 75, 383, 392
Paty, Henry, d. 1841 Folder 110
Paty, John, 1807-1868 Folders 289, 360, 375, 380, 425, 446, 449, 484, 493, 512, 513, 517, 535, 589
Paty & Co. Folders 381-382, 524-525
Paty (Henry) & Co., Honolulu Folder 111
Pedrorena, Miguel F. de, ca. 1808-1850 Folders 48, 49, 59, 99, 150, 247, 265, 279, 285, 419-420, 451, 520, 603
Peirce, Henry Augustus, 1808-1885 Folders 112, 113-114, 197, 204, 264, 146
Peirce & Brewer, Honolulu Folders 112, 113-114, 118, 119-122, 123-124, 142, 147, 151, 153-154, 159, 175, 180, 190, 197, 198-201, 226, 243-244, 252-253, 258-259, 278, 283, 291, 292
Pelly, George Folders 260, 418
Phelps, William Dane Folders 399, 410, 436, 441, 488, 494, 499, 502
Pico, Andrés, 1810-1876 Folder 136
Pico, Pío, 1801-1894 Folders 36, 133, 358, 367, 370, 371, 416
Poncia, Pedro P. Folders 227, 448, 522 bis
Reid, Perfecto Hugo, 1811-1852 Folders 156, 592
Requena, Manuel, d. 1876 Folders 60, 483
Richardson, Henry P. Folders 408-409, 411
Robertson, Robert Folder 267
Robidoux, Antoine, 1794-1860 Folder 461
Robidoux, Louis, 1791-1868 Folder 461
Robinson, Alfred, 1806- Folders 216, 228, 281, 361, 388
Robinson, William Folder 612
Roldán, M. R. Folder 156
Ross, Charles L. Folders 474, 489
Ruiz, María Salvadora Folder 33
St. John, William Henry Folder 481
Salazar, Juan Folder 127
Scarborough (William) y Cia, Mazatlán Folders 158, 297-298
Scott, James G., d. 1851 Folders 41, 62, 70, 416
Scott & Wilson, San Diego Folder 87
Semple, John L. Folder 620
Sepúlveda, Juan María Folder 614
Shannon, William Edward, 1822-1850 Folder 522
Shaw, Thomas, d. ca. 1866 Folders 14, 21, 63, 95, 149, 160
Sherman & Ruckel, San Francisco Folders 526, 528, 541
Snook, Joseph Francisco, d. ca. 1847 Folders 64, 72
Spence, David, 1798-1875 Folders 76, 77, 132, 137, 138, 171
Starkey, Janion & Co., San Francisco Folders 529, 531, 533, 536, 542
Stearns, Abel, 1798-1871 Folders 26, 27-28, 51, 56, 106, 131, 145, 156, 195, 202, 203, 223, 268, 269, 352-353
Stevens, James Folder 498
Stokes, Edward Folders 300, 301, 337
Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880 Folders 143, 178, 193, 225, 229, 233, 270, 277, 391
Temple, John, 1796-1866 Folder 20, 106, 134, 156, 165, 190, 246, 249, 250, 251, 509, 617-618
Temple & Alexander, San Pedro Folder 499
Templeman & Bergman, Lima Folder 4
Tennant, Archibald Folder 622
Teschemacher, Henry Frederick Folders 415, 478, 520, 608-609
Thompson, Alpheus Basil, 1795-1869 Folders 16 (oversize), 39, 55, 69, 242, 460, 617-618, 619
Todd, William L. Folder 453
Toro, Juan Folder 472
Vallejo, Francisco Folder 13
Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1807-1890 Folders 313, 604-607, 611, 621
Vega, Ramón de la Folder 325
Verdugo, Marcela (Elizalde) Folder 319
Vincent, George W., d. 1851 Folders 181, 293
Vioget, Jean Jacques, 1799-1855 Folders 164, 230, 398, 465, 515-516
Virmond, Henry Edward Folders 1, 2, 3, 10, 11-12
Warner, Jonathan Trumbull, 1807- Folders 34, 82, 442, 443
Watson, James, 1803-1863 Folder 183
Webber, Samuel Folder 466-467
Wells (R) & Co., San Francisco Folder 540
Williams, Isaac, 1799-1856 Folder 25
Wilson, John, 1795-1860 Folders 35, 66, 321, 331, 412
Worth, Calvin G. Folder 610
Yeoward, Richard Folder 254
Yorba, Tomás Antonio, 1784- Folders 54, 71, 83
Zamudio, Máximo Folders 5, 6, 7, 9

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Collection Guide Author:
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Date Prepared:
© 1997
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding; finding aid encoded by Brooke Dykman Dockter. Date of source: Unknown.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Documentos para la historia de California, BANC MSS C-B 55, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
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