Arrive San Francisco
June 27, 1849GH Montague
Captain Gordon H. Montague
From New Haven, Connecticut via Rio de Janeiro
Passage
New Haven Register, January. 24, 1849 Southington Men Off For California
Hundreds of people assembled at Belle Dock on Tuesday afternoon to see the unmooring of the schooner G. H. Montague, say goodbye to their friends on board and freight them with good wishes. As she shook out her canvas the welkin rang with cheers to which the outward bound responded heartily and merrily--and not a few were left gazing after her-- when she disappeard around the Lighthouse Point. There are fifty-four persons on board, most of them hale and hearty, young men of good charater, filled with Yankee enterprise, imbued with Yankee intelligence, a valuable acquisition to any community.
Among them are six experienced navigators and as many thorough seamen, and the vessel carries a sufficiency of the best quality of assorted provisions, to last, if necessary, three or four years, and each man has a good rifle and a pair of patent revolving pistols. They are provided also with all kinds of clothing.
The company is composed of merchants, manufacturers, miners, carpenters, tinners, coopers, blacksmiths, iron founders, tailors, shoe-makers, and a doctor--each taking with him the tools of his trade and prepared to follow it in California, if it shall be for the general interest.
Although a long voyage is before them, yet they have an experienced captain and a staunch craft that will show its stern to many vessels now on the road to San Francisco. It is their intention to touch at the Cape de Verde, and at the Horn, and make her voyage, heaven permitting, in less than four months.
Following is a list of the persons composing the company:
Cargo
Not listed.Passengers
From New Haven:Josiah B. Hutchings, first officer
Richard N. Montague, second officer
James Barnet, third officer
Phineas T. Miller, physician
Elihu Gorham
Randolph Brnes
H.D. Munson
George Graham
Griswold S. Ely
Ransom Dibble
Francis M. Montague
Henry H. Beecher
James Bradley
Warren Ives
Daniel Curry
From Cornwall:
Wales S. Porter
Charles F. Baldwin
From Huntington:
Joseph N. Benedict
From East Haven:
Robert Smith
From Southington:
Samuel S. Woodruff
William J. Clark
William Clark
Frederick Cook
Seth E. Barnes
Andrew F. Barnes
John S. C. Jones
From Meriden:
Aaron Higby
Samuel W. Parmelee
A. E. Camp
Nathan F. Griswold
James E. Belden
Charles C. Coe
Abram N. Jackson
Jerome B. Jackson
Thomas C. Hubbard
From Derby:
Julius Bassett
Wm. M. Wallace
Wm. Humphreys, Jr.
Lewis Johnson
Moses James
John H. Buell
Eugene Durand
Anson Platt
Edgar French
Wheeler Bassett
Elihu F. Baldwin
From North Bristol:
Elizur H. Rogers
From Wethersfield:
Rossiter Robbins
From Maine:
Joseph B. Fitch
From North Madison:
W. Norton