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Adelphi Company papers, 1849-1857 (bulk 1850).
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Adelphi Company papers, 1849-1857 (bulk 1850)Creator/Contributor:
Adelphi Company, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Ellet, Charles, 1801-1868, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Mitchell, Clarence Green, 1827-1893, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Mitchell, John Wroughton, 1796-1878, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Judah, Charles D., 1823-1870, correspondent.Abstract:
Collection of 16 letters (43 pages) + 7 manuscript drafts of the articles of agreement forming the "Adelphi Association,"
24 pages + 4 manuscript accounts and 3 partially printed documents pertaining to the dissolution of the association in California.
The correspondence is from various members and stockholders of the Adelphi Company.
Date:
1849 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMining corporations -- California
Gold mines and mining -- California -- 19th century
Sociétés minières -- Californie
Mining corporations
Gold mines and mining
California -- Gold discoveries
Californie -- Découvertes d'or
California
Adelphi Company -- Archives
Adelphi Company -- Correspondence
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Purchase from Michael Brown; 2014.
The Adelphi Company was an association of 8 men from New York City who incorporated themselves into a joint stock company
to travel to California to mine gold. The company was directed by Charles Ellet and included Edmund G. Capron, Joseph M. Frey,
Charles C. Green, John G. Hyer, Josiah Hoyt, Charles G. Judah, and Clarence G. Mitchell. Stockholders included John W. Mitchell
(Clarence Mitchell's father), Green, Hyer, Mitchell, and Robert R. Hunter. The company sailed for California on February 17,
1849 on the S.S. Panama; the Utica Company, a 10-member mining company, traveled on the same ship.
Adelphi Company papers, BANC MSS 2014/115, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
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Personal correspondenceArchives
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English