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As they are located, books about families arriving in San Francisco are being added to the selection of Family History Books.


The Fields Name in History
Field Name.


The Slater Name in History.
Slater Name

Recommended Reading.
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To California By Sea by James P. Delgado.
To California by Sea: A Maritime History of the California Gold Rush (Studies in Maritime History)


San Francisco: Port of Gold
William Martin Camp

An image of the cover of Port of Gold is not available. However, I have this book and it is a well-written history of San Francisco penned by a Berkeley author in 1947. It opens with a list of the Officers of the Society of California Pioneers. Some illustrations are included in the book.

Annals of San Francisco.
The Annals of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, James Nisbet
Originally published 1855. Many illustrations.


The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
Herbert Asbury
Asbury's history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849..."

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Arrive San Francisco: March 20, 1853
SS Brother Jonathan
Captain Baldwin
From San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

Passage:
13 days from Panama, via Acapulco and San Diego.

Daily Alta California, March 21, 1853

Memoranda
Left San Francisco, Feb. 15 at 11 o�clock A.M.; Feb. 18, exchanged signals with barque Drymos off Cerri (?) Island; Feb 25 Ralph Polhemus, of Fairview, Ill., died; Feb 27. At 1 o�clock A.M., reached San Juan del Sur. Arrived at that port same date barque Lawrence, Logan, 110 days from New York, with an assorted cargo. March 6th, 6 o�clock P.M., left San Juan; March 10th, off Acapulco, passed a steamer going south, supposed to be the Winfield Scott; March 12th, lat 19 28 long 105 52, exchanged signals with a ship standing S.E., supposed to be an English man-of-war. Experienced continued head weather. March 17, at 1 o�clock, ran into San Diego. Steamer Sea Bird was coaling. She sailed at 5 o�clock in search of steamer Independence. Left at 11 o�clock P.M. Passed steamer Golden Gate at 1 o�clock same night.

Cargo: Not listed. Delivered to D. Brigham, Jr.

Passengers:
Alden, H.W. (boarded at San Diego)
Alvord, L., wife and child
Anderson, J.M. (boarded at San Diego)
Armour, A.
Bailey, A.N.
Bartlett, E.D. and wife
Bartlett, G.R.
Bentineau, E. (Might be Bertinean or Bertineau)
Bernard, L.
Binam, A.
Black, T.
Blakely, H.A.
Board, F.
Botcher, H.
Botcher, Mrs.
Bowlesley, L.H.
Bradodry, J.F. (Difficult to read. Might be Bredodey or variation)
Bradshaw, H.W.
Brown, N.D.
Brush, Mrs. J. and child
Calder, Wm.
Camp, A.W.
Camp, E.S.
Campbell, W.C.
Canfield, Mr., wife and child
Carroll, Mrs.
Chapman, W.R.
Copenhaver, H. (Might be Copenhaver)
Crane, R.C.
Croger, H.
Crook, G.W.
Davis, A.J.
Davis, J.P.M., wife and child
Davis, Miss A.
Davis, Miss J.
Davis, Miss M.A.
Davis, Mrs. A.L.
Davis. E.L.
Dixon, I.
Dockstader, A.H.
Dodge, Miss
Dornam, J.K.
Douglass, S.
Duffy, S.S., wife and child
Dunn, Jacob
Field, G.K.
Fitch, W.W.
Flard, Mrs. P.C. (Might be Flaid, Flerd)
Goldine, J.A. (Might be Gordine)
Gunn, E.
Hagacorn, A.
Hall, S.A.
Halsey, W.R., wife and two daughters
Hama, S.B.
Harner, S.H. (Might be Harper)
Hatton, J.
Haun, D.L.
Haun, J.J.
Hawkins, J.K.
Herron, Rev. J.C., lady and child
Hobbs, J.K.
Hodgens, J.
Holbrook. C.B.
Hooker, A.E.
Hosteler, W.R. (Might be Hosteller or Hosteiler)
Humphrey, A.H.
Hutchings, W.F.
Irwin, B.M.
Isaacs, Geo M.
Jensen, C.J.
Johnson, B.F.
Johnson, T. and lady
Jones, J.W.
Kelly, Thos.
Kenson, E.
Labatt, A.C.
Lea, H.M. (Might be Lee, Len)
Lewis, M.
Lewis, S.S.
Lightner, Mr., wife and two children
Little, S.
Long, B.
Longley, A.
Longyear, M.
Loomis, J.
Mann, Jno
Marchbank, J.
Martin. W.W.
McCeon, J.
McKay, Miss M.
McKees, J.B., wife and three children
McKowney, W. and wife
McNeal, J.E.
Mead, Mr.
Meghel, A.
Miller, J, wife, nine children and servant
Mills, N.
Morrison, D.
Moulton, Mrs.
Page, R.
Paul, J.P.
Pease, H.F.
Pease, W.H.
Peck, J.G.
Plummer, Mrs. and three children (Might be Plommer)
Polhemus, Ralph (of Fairview, Ill died February 25 at sea)
Powers, N. and wife
Rapp, Miss Sally
Rising, M.
Roberts, F.
Silva, Mrs. J.
Slater, M.
Small, G.S.
Smlin, Major T.S. and lady
South, A., lady and three children
Stevens, Mrs. J.J.
Stotebark, A.
Thomas, Mrs. M.J. and daughter
Thompson, A.G. and wife
Todd, B.F.
Torrey, Miss Gertrude
Torrey, Mr., wife and four children
Van Winkle, Miss
Vogue, A.
Wales, W.
West, E.O., wife and child
Wicker, A.M.
Wilcox, Captain (boarded at San Diego)
Williams, Mr., wife and infant
Woodbury, C.E.
Work, G.B.

65 females in all; 306 passengers.






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Date Entered: June 1999
Source: Daily Alta California


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