Guide to the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 Papers, 1851-1852
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Guide to the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 Papers, 1851-1852
Collection number: BANC MSS C-A 77
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1851-1852
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-A 77
Creator:
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
Extent:
Number of containers: 8 boxes, 1 volume, and 1 oversize folder
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: Include constitution, name book, minutes of meetings, accounts, and other records. Also police reports, statements and depositions
in criminal cases, especially those involving James Stuart and John Jenkins. Some correspondence and clippings.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
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Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 papers, BANC MSS C-A 77, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Content
These papers, from the original Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection, begin with the official constitution of the Committee, June
8, 1851. The bulk of the collection is from June through Sept. 1851, with records of a more sporadic nature through November
1852. The papers include minutes of meetings, statements of witnesses, some correspondence, police reports, reports on examination
of passenger ships coming from Australia, accounts, and other records, as well as clippings from various San Francisco newspapers.
The chronological arrangement, day by day, of most of these papers follows, in the main, the work edited by Mary Floyd Williams
entitled:
Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
(Academy of Pacific Coast History. Publications, v. 4. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1919).
An unbound copy of Miss Williams' book forms a part of the report, with pencilled notations giving folder number of documents.
Box 1, folder 1-107
June 1851
Additional Note
Folder 2, which has been repaired, is now in oversize folder.
Box 7, folder 680-724
Mar.-Nov. 1852; Accounts and other records
Box 8, folder 725-736
Miscellaneous records, clippings
Official seal of the Committee
(Numbers refer to folder numbers)
For more detailed index, see Miss Williams' book, part 2 of report.
folder no. 616
Signature:
Additional Note
(Fragment only of a document)
folder no. 228, 539, 553, 626
Bluxome, Isaac
Additional Note
Also wrote and signed many minutes, as Secretary of General Committee and later of the Executive Committee.
folder no. 592, 635, 654, 670, 680, 689, 687, 688
Brannan, Samuel, 1819-1889
Campbell, Alexander, 1820-
Coleman, William Tell, 1824-1893
folder no. 105, 148, 221
Letters:
Additional Note
Re his apprehension as thief.
folder no. 347, 501, 682, 697
Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861
folder no. 69, 91, 166
Letters:
Additional Note
Relate to Samuel Church, horse-thief
folder no. 259, 344, 408, 474
Graham, William C.
Additional Note
Also wrote and signed minutes of Executive Committee, as Secretary.
folder no. 271
Letter:
Additional Note
Offering services of Gregory's Express to the Committee.
Hays, John Coffee, 1817-1883
folder no. 118, 676
Letters re San Francisco prison:
Jones, William Carey, 1814-1867
King, Thomas Butler, 1800-1864
King of William, James, 1822-1856
folder no. 40
Receipt, signed for him by William Hammond:
La Motte, Robert Smith, 1825-1888
Mines, Flavel Scott, 1811-1852
Payran, Stephen
Additional Note
Signed many documents as President of the Executive Committee.
folder no. 157, 175, 176, 179, 358, 412, 468, 470, 577, 565, 638, 643
folder no. 50, 139, 622, 623
folder no. 275, 318, 320, 334, 335, 378, 396, 421, 420, 431, 448, 457, 469, 525, 502, 503, 515, 522, 523, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530,
540
Stevenson, Jonathan Drake, 1800-1884
folder no. 203, 192, 193, 194, 195
Van Bokkelen, Jacob Lorrilard
folder no. 4, 10, 12, 20, 25, 39
Wadsworth, James C. L.
Additional Note
Also signature on various documents of Finance committee.
Whittaker, Samuel, d. 1851
folder no. 293, 617, and v. 1
folder no. 73, 81, 82, 92, 97, 108, 120, 140, 152, 164, 171, 187, 196, 204, 213, 216, 224, 227, 235, 244, 250, 255, 260, 272, 276,
281, 292, 293, 302, 315, 352, 363, 368, 375, 390, 395, 402, 407, 415, 416, 429, 434, 464, 476, 589, 617, 625, 627, 629, 632,
644, 646, 650, 655, 656, 662, 665, 666, 668, 669, 674, 678, 681, 684, 686, 690, 691, 692, 696, 699, 700, 702, 704, and v.
1 (minutes, Sept. 17, 1851 - June 30, 1852)
Minutes of Executive Committee:
folder no. 85, 137, 153, 165, 172, 186, 188, 197, 205, 214, 217, 236, 261, 282, 307, 323, 357, 376, 408, 422, 439, 465, 477, 489,
498, 521, 536, 542, 543, 567, 584
Minutes of General Committee:
folder no. 96, 109, 208, 237, 296, 324, 379, 411, 437, 438, 441, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 466, 510, 512, 516, 519, 513, 537, 545-556,
563, 564, 568, 569, 570, 572, 574, 575, 576, 579, 580, 581, 582, 588
Reports of Executive Committee:
folder no. 173, 174, 268, 316, 325, 557, 571, 610, 630, 713
folder no. 722
Roll call of Executive Committee:
folder no. 136, 249, 362, 389, 400, 442, 483, 495
Reports of examination of passenger vessels:
