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1853 Nashua 10 Stampless Cover Via Browns Express $1 to Stephen Davis Stockton MC Directive
cover has black Nashua N.H. cds with 10 rate handstamp, struck large blue Browns/ Express/Stockton express co. handstamp (Thomas BRW-100) with matching blue $1. express rate handstamp (Thomas BRW-205b), lightly manuscript M C for carriage to Maxwells Creek, cover defects with wear and tears, short right corners, stamp hinges reinforced opening back flap. Stephen Chapin Davis and his brother, Josiah, journeyed to California in 1850, mining and keeping store at Long Bar, where they also ran an express between the Yuba River mining camps and Sacramento and San Francisco. Stephen later kept a store at Coulterville on Maxwells Creek. Never healthy enough to actively mine for gold, Stephen C. Davis died in 1856 at age 23. The Davis correspondence was ultimately found in the attic of a house in Nashua, New Hampshire which had long been vacated by Davis descendants, and most of it is now in the California State Library, Sacramento.
id #7244
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$350
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1852 Nashua 10 Stampless Letter Via Browns Express $1 Stockton California Maxwells Creek
folded cover dated Nashua Sept 17, 1852 from brother George to Stephen in Stockton Cal., black Nashua N.H. cds and matching 10 rate handstamp, cancel in blue Forwarded By/Browns/ Express handstamp (Thomas BRW-101) and matching
$1 express rate handstamp (Thomas BRW-205b), with additional manuscript M C applied by Browns agent indicating delivery point was Maxwells Creek. Excellent condition.
id #7243
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$400
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1853 Nevada City Hamlet Davis Bankers Cameo Advertising Sacramento City 10 Stampless Cover
condition with wrinkles at left edge, One page letter enclosed dated lined Nevada City Oct. 29th 1853, letter signed H. Davis. - Some History - 1851 Hamlet Davis Nevada Citys first directly elected mayor, election was voided when the initial city incorporation was vetoed by Governor John McDougal. Hamlet Davis was a merchant, banker, express agent, theater operator, and more. In 1857 he moved to Dutch Flat and became a farmer, then, in 1868, opened a grocery store in Truckee. Twenty years later, Davis left Nevada County and settled in Kentucky, where he lived until his death in 1900. Hamlet Davis building was located on Broad Street near Pine. A Rare Gold Rush Banker cameo advertising cover and letter.
id #7242
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$500
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Santafee New Mexico August 2d, 1849 2pg Kit Carsons Ranch Kit and Wife Wagons For California
Two page Letter date lined Santa Fe New Mexico August 2d, 1849, dateline on four-page folded cover mailed with black Platte City Mo. Oct 4 cds and manuscript 5 rate marking to Fayette, Mo., letter reads, in part, Again I hasten to write a few lines by emigrants returning to the states. In 10 minets after I wrote my last we set sail & after some days traveling over the Attone Mountains we reached Kit Carsons Ranch of New Settlement 45 miles of Toas. There four of us left the wagons the next day where we found Kit the day after at 10 Oclock in bed with his pretty little Mexican wife who is as white as he is Kit learning I was cousin to Jo Walker took quite a liking to me and thru the influence of Major McDaniel & Kit they came vary near getting me in as saddler to the excort that here on there way to California after three days stay we left for this place thence to Gallistier 25 miles south, (signed) A.J. Willis, PS write to San Francisco get information from Taylor the P.M. (Post Master) as to how it should be directed, some paper loss on address panel and wear and stamp hinge mends.
id #7241
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$4000
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1857 San Francisco Circular News Letter Snow Shoe Thompson Placerville Genoa NV Lettersheet
interesting contents with tremendous detail of the goings-on, advertisements include those for Wells, Fargo & Co., McCombes, Freemans Express, including illustrated article of Mr. Snoeshoe Thompson, the Carson Valley Expressman with printed illustration showing Thompson on Skis in the Mountains and includes details of his route and efforts in delivering express mail to Carson Valley, letter on message portion of lettersheet manuscript datelined Chinese Camp March 14th 57 reads in part They are having a great time to Sonora thear is eleven to be hang(ed) right off some for killing white men and some for killing black men Spaniards and robing and so forth, I think I shall go up to see some of them hang. signed B.T. Barstow
Printed - three-page folded The San Francisco News Letter, No 16 with A Summary of Events from Feb. 20th to March 5th, 1857. Includes vignette advertisement for Mr. Thompson, the Mountain Express Man. Some Info...Thompsons Carson Valley Express was established by John A. Snowshoe Thompson was in operation in 1857 and operated between Genoa, Nevada and Placerville, California. He also carried the overland mails for Chorpenning during the winter months of 1861. Snowshoe died on 15 May, 1876.
The San Francisco News Letter was published by Frederick Marriott and served to advance his intertwining financial and political interests, to level attacks against his foes, and to extort money from public figures who he threatened with the prospect of scandalous news reports. Each publication date was tied to an outbound Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company sailing to Panama and was sold by all Wells Fargo & Company agents throughout California. This issue Per Steamer Golden Age. Measures 9 1/4 X 11 3/8 inches and unfolds to 4 sections. Very rare lettersheet only 2 known.
id #7240
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$3500
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1850s Mariposa City California Gold Rush Street Scene Illustrated Lettersheet Published by Quirot
and Company (Baird 151) measures 8 X 10 5/8 inches, with printers imprint trimmed away at lower. Per Peters California on Stone pp. 132-138 this imprint being between 1851-1852 a rare engraved illustration of Mariposa City.
id #7239
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$1100
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March 26 1850 Culloma Alta CA 40 Rate Cover 2 PG Letter GOLD Discovery Place called Sutters MIll
(ELD-400) red double-ring datestamp with magenta manuscript date and red 40 handstamped rating on 1850 cover to Boston Mass. Cover with original miners enclosure included describing the town of Culloma and mining in the area, We started up on the fifth of February and stopped at Weavers Creek three weeks where we made expenses in the intervals of fair weather, but the constant rains swelled the Creek and drove us out, which induced us to come up here - This is the place where the gold was first discovered, formerly called Sutters Mills, it is a place of some five hundred inhabitants and is the general depot for the supply of the adjacent mining region, we intent to strike tent and leave for better diggings.
id #7238
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$2900
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James W Marshall Coloma Gold Discovery Site Sutters Account Gold Rush Illustrated Letter Sheet
James W Marshall Coloma Gold Discovery Site Printer Britton & Rey Letter Sheet with Outer sheet only, No Letter addressed to Mrs. Fanny Leonard Foxboro Mass. crease folds, Captain Sutters account of the discovery of gold, with portrait of James Wilson Marshall, and picture of Sutters Mill printed in 1854. History: Letter sheet tells John Sutters version of how gold was discovered in 1848. He was at home resting, he says, when James Marshall, who had just left two days earlier to repair the sawmill Sutter owned on the American River, returned with gold samples that had been found in the stream below the mill. The two men returned to the site and discovered gold nuggets up to an ounce and half, both above and below the mill. Unhappily for Sutter and Marshall, they could not keep their find a secret. By the end of 1848, the news had flashed around the world, and the Gold Rush was in full swing.
id #7237
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$3000
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Nevada City Oct 25, 1850 At the Eureka Cabin 6 Page Folded Letter Forwarded by Bowers Express
(Thomas BOW-100) letter entered the mails with blurry black cds San Francisco Cal. Oct 40 integral rate datestamp with handstamp PAID and manuscript 40 rate marking to New Hampshire. Part letter read - woke up to find ourselves sailing up the beautiful Sacramento River. we engaged a four mule team to take us up to Nevada City, and about sunset we left Sacramento City with our blankets, and our carpet bags (one each) for Nevada. At night we encamped near the Indian Spring. The next morning we passed through Rough and Ready where we had our first glimpse at the elephant in the shape of gold digging and washing in the ravines near the town. At Nevada city, we were astonished at the intent of the mining operations. We visited the cayote works and found that some of the shafts had been sunk more than sixty feet. They are called cayote holes, from the fact that the cayotes (the prairie wolves) dig their holes in a similar manner, for winter lodgings. letter with a lot more detail on the trip, the mining activities etc.
id #7236
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$1500
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March 14 1850 Steam Ship 30 to Cedar Swamp New York Gold Rush Seekers Letter
letter reads in part, The mail leaves in about an hour and as there will be no opportunity of sending a letter for about a month I embrace the opportunity to inform thee of my arrival here. We arrived at Chagres on first day last and that afternoon started in our canoes for Gorgora. It took us about two days and a pleasanter time I never had…The first night we stopped about 12 miles from Chagres at an Indian Town wrapped ourselves in our cloaks and slept on our baggage in the canoe People may talk about the Chagres never being unhealthy but with common prudence (It is as healthy at least at present as any other place) we walked from Gorgona here yesterday (about 30 miles) with the thermometer at about 90 and over one of the hardest roads in the world. There are about 1500 Americans with tickets purchased before they came for steamers that have not yet arrived, and have been here from two weeks to two months…I think I shall take the Bark John B. Gardner. L. Frost
id #7235
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$875
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