History of California, Volume XXII, Part 84

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Publication date: 1885-1890
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers
Number of Pages: 816

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Swinburn (Wm). 1839, Engl. mate of the schr California, who became a lumberman in the Mont. district, getting a pass in '41. iv. 119. In '44 in S. F. dist, age 35. Swinson (Dav. ). 184S, at Mont. Swords (Allen J.), 1847, Co. A, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); d. at La Paz '4S. S. (Thomas). 1846, major U.S.A., who came from N. Mex. with Kearny as quartermaster, and returned east with him in '47, after having made a trip to Honolulu for supplies; witness in the Fremont court-martial. v. 336, 343-7, 356, 440, 452, 456. In the war of '61-5 he was chief quartermaster of the western dept, and in '79 lived in N. Y. as a retired brigadier. Sylvester (Anthony), 1845, one of the men lost '46 on the Warren's launch. iv. 587; v. 384. Syrec, 1848, named as having kept a store on the Moquelumue.

Tabeau (Baptiste), 1844, one of Fremont's men, killed by Ind. iv. 437, 440. Taber (J. D.), 1846, apparently an overl. immig .; of T. & Hoyt, hotel-

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keepers at Mont. '47 &; had a family in Contra Costa '60. T., 1847, mr of the Copia. v. 577. Tabor (Wm), 1846, in Sta Clara Val. with family. Hall. Taforó (Jose Ignacio), 1819, nat. of N. Amer., soldier of the S. Blas comp. at Mont .; disch. '24; regidor at Mont. 27. ii. 612. Taggart (Geo. W.), 1947, musician Co. B, Morm. Bat. v. 469. T. (Robert), 1848, nephew of Dr Isbel, who killed B. K. Thompson on the way east overland. T. (Sam.), 1842, ex- ecuted at Los Ang. for murder, iv. 296, 342, 633; called also 'Tagget ' and 'Taggett.' Tait (James A., 1847, Co. A, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); at Sta Cruz 71-83. T. (Wm G.), 1847, Co. A, ditto. Tajochi (Tomás), Ind. chief of S. Diego '33. iii. 327, 359.

Talamantes (Felipe), settler at Los Ang. 1794; grantee of Sta B. land 1819; at La Ballona 39-40, age 57. ii. 349, 354: iii. 633, 637. T. (Tomás), prob. brother of Felipe, at La Ballona '39, age 47. He took an active part in the fight against Gov. Victoria in '31. iii. 196, 207; was jnez de campo '44. iv. 633; and still at Los Ang. '46. Talbot. 1847, of L. & Upham at Mont. '47-S. T. (J. M.). 1846, witness to enlistment in C'al. Bat. T. (Theodore), 1844. nat. of Ky who came with Fremont, and again in '45. iv. 437, 581, 583. lle was a young man of good education, who was in a sense com. of that di- , vision of the company entering Cal. by the southern route; and in Cal. acted as Fremont's confidential agent. v. 3, 6, 22, 644. He was left in com. of the Sta B. garrison, and later served as lient and adjutant in the Cal. Bat. v. 287, 304, 316-17. 358, 360, 630. Being sent east with despatches in Fcb. '47, he was a witness in the Fremont court-martial. v. 430, 436. Died at Wash., D. C., '62. Talmadge (Abijah D.), 1847. Co. A, N. Y. Vol. (v. 4. 9); killed in '48 by Moquelumne Ind. Tamam (lg.), 1846. doubtful name, Cal. Bat. (v.

3581. Tamanin | Prokop), 1822, mr of the l'olga. ii. 474. Tamaree (Peter),

1834, at Mont. Tambor (Jnan), nickname; killed at Los Ang. 45. iv. 492. Tanferan (Toribio), at S. F. mission from '40; witness in the Santillan case '55. Tanner (Albert), 1847, Co. E, Morm. Bat. (v. 469). T. (John L.), 1848, married at Sonoma to Mary, daughter of J. D. Taber of Mont. Tan- sill (Robert), 1846, lient of marines on the Dale; in Marston's Sta Clara cam- paign; com. of the S. F. garrison 47. v. 380, 659.

Tapia (Antonio), juez aux. at S. C'arlos '42. iv. 653. T. (Bartolo), ranchero at Los Ang. 1791 -1813. ii. 270, 350-3. T. (Carlos), at Los Ang. 46. T. (Felipe), soldier at S. José and settler 1786-90. i. 350, 477-8. T. (Fernando), at Los Ang. '45. T. (Francisco), cadet of Sta B. comp. '25-6. ii. 572. T. (Gregorio), grantee of Agnajito rancho '35, iii. 676; at Pilarcitos 36, age 22, wife Martina Vasquez, child Maria de los Angeles; perhaps at Sta ( 'ruz '54. i. 524. T. (José Ant.), at Los Ang. '46; arrested in '45. iv. 541. T. (José Bartolome), majordom , of S, Luis Ob. 1789, wife Maria Lobo; grantee of Topanga Malibu rancho 1804. ii. 112; iii. 634. T. (Mariano), 1792, pot-

ter-instructor from Mex. '92-6. i. 615, 715. T. (Ramon), at S. Bern. '46, age 25. T. (Tiburcio), son of José Bartolomé, b. at S. Luis Ob. 1789; later soldier and corporal of the Sta B. comp .. being com. of the l'urisima guard in '24 at the revolt. ii. 529: member of the diputacion "27, '33. iii. 36-7, 41, 63, 246; alcalde of Los Ang. '30-1, '36; il. 561; in. 634, 636; sindico '33, and encargado de Ind. '35. iii. 635: favored Alvarado '38. ini. 365; aux. alcalde '38. iii. 636. In '39 he was alcalde, acting prefect, and grantee of Cucamonga rancho, iii. 586, 589, 633, 636, 640. In '42 he was a supl. ministro of the snp. conrt; and in '44 2d alcalde. iv. 296, 633. Don Tiburcio was a man of good sense, good character, and some wealth, still at Los Ang. '48 at the age of about GO. A current tradition of later times represented the old man as having buried his treasure on Frémont's approach in '46, and as having died withont revealing its exact location. T. (reino), settler at Los Ang. 1809. ii. 350. Tapin, 1846, lient on the U.S. Savannah. Tapinto (Mariano), 1792, tailor-instructor '92-5. i. 615.

Tapis (Estévan), 1790, Span, friar who toiled as missionary longest at Sta B. and S. Juan B., and was president of the missions in 1803-12. Biog. ii. 623-4; ment. i. 388, 492, 522, 573-4, 576, 588-90, 594, 640, 669, 672, 689; ii. 7, 9-10, 20, 28, 33-4, 42, 55, 85, 88-90, 108-9, 112-13, 120-1, 140, 148, 159, 16], 165,

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168, 175, 182, 326, 346, 366, 369, 378, 383, 386-7, 394, 396, 461, 518, 655. Taplin (Charles), 1844, of Frémont's party; also in '45, returning east in '46 with Sublette. iv. 437, 583. He again joined F. in '48. Tarakánof (Boris), 1806, Russ. chief of Aleut. otter-hunters; captured at Sta B. in '15. ii. 40, 80, 210, 274, 307-13, 353. Tasion (Manuel S.), grantee of a S. Gabriel lot '47. iv. 637. Taufer (Andrew), 1847, German memb. of the Soc. C'al. Pion. ; d. at S. F. '79, age 71.

Taylor, 1848, in the mines from Mout. and S. José. T., 1848, at S. F.

from the states. T. (Alex. S.), 1848, nat. of S. C., where his father-who had been a lieut on the privateer Saucy Jack in the war of 1812-died in '21. The son came to Cal. from China in Sept. '48, but beyond the facts that he was for some years elerk of the U.S. district court at Mont., and later settled at Sta B., marrying Josefa Ortega, and dying in '76, nothing of biog. proper appears in any record that I have seen. He was known as Dr Taylor, but I do not know whether he ever practised medicine. It is not, however, as a pioneer, but as an investigator and writer on the ethnography, bibliography, and his- tory of Cal. that he deserves particular notice; and in these respects he was a remarkable man. Without having any special aptitude by nature or educa- tion for such work, he developed a fondness for it almost amounting to a mania. His zeal in face of the most discouraging obstacles is worthy of all praise, though it must be confessed that the result was wellnigh valueless. He was not content with being a collector or even translator and narrator, but had a most nnfortunate passion for working the results of his observations and study into what he regarded as a scientific form, the result being too often an absurd jumble of bad Spanish, worse Latin, and unintelligible affectations. While at Monterey he obtained from the priest a valuable collection of old mis- sion documents (later given to the archbishop, and cited by me as Arch. del Obispado) which he made the basis of numerous newspaper articles, in which, by reason of faulty translations, typographical blunders, unfounded additions, and the difficulty of locating the dividing line between record and comment, the value of the original was much impaired. His writings from about '53 for the S. F. Herald, Bulletin, Cal. Farmer, Hutchings' Magazine, Hesperian, Sar. Union, and other papers were very voluminous. The most extensive of his works and most valuable, being least injured by his peculiar methods, though containing very little original matter, is the Indianology of Cal., published in the Cal. Farmer of '60-3, of which most of the linguistic portions are re- printed in Lucy-Fossarieu, Langues Indiennes de la Cal., Paris 'S1; and which gave Dr T., very properly, an honorary membership in several learned societies of the east. Another of his most ambititious attempts, but least valuable by reason of his utter laek of facilties for bibliographic work, was the Bibliografi Californica, pub. in the Sac. Union, and noticed in i. 35 of this work. His Lis- torical Summary of Lower California, pub. in Ross Browne's Resources, ed. of `69, and his Precis India Californieus, ineluded by Wm H. Knight in Ban- rroft's Hund-book of '64, are very ereditable works, being the only ones that had the advantages of careful editing and proof-reading. His First Voyage to the Coast of Cal., of '53, was a translation of Navarrete's version of Cabrillo's voyage, with comments of little value. i. 69, 72, 77. In his later years Dr Taylor collected all his writings, with numerous MS. additions here and there, into a series of 7 serap-books, under the titles Bibliografa California, Indian- ology of the Californias, Animated Nature of Cal., Odds and Ends of Cal. Life, and Discoverers and Founders of Cal., Felix, and Cal. Petra (the Ist 3 being in '85 in the library of the Soc. Cal. Pion. in S. F.), and issued a descriptive circular, 'The Storehouse of Cal., History and Life.' through which he tried in vain to find in America and Europe a publisher for his collected writings, with- ont a suspicion of the truth that the work and time and ability and resonrees of data that would enable an editor to put the crude mass in such shape as to do justice to the author's reputation would produce an original work of much greater value. I visited him in '74 at his rancho at La Partera, near Sta B., and found him, though grievously oppressed by illness and poverty, as enthusiastic as ever in all that pertained to early Cal. annals. He pointed sadly but with

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pride to a wooden box that contained his life work-the 7 volumes mentioned above; and when I sought his advice respecting my own researches, he pointed again to the box as containing all that could ever be gleaned about carly Cal .; and he was, I am sure, entirely honest in his belief. "Test, if you like,' he said, 'the accuracy of my work by examining the documents I gave the arch- bishop. but I know from long years of carnest research that nowhere else, especially from mission and Spanish sources, will you find a scrap of new in- formation.' Yet only 3 miles away from the rancho where he had lived for many years, at Sta B. mission, I took 6,000 pages of copies of most important missionary correspondence that he had never seen ! All honor, nevertheless, to such men as Hayes and Taylor and Lancey, who have toiled under more or less unfavorable auspices to save from destruction the data for our history.

Taylor (Christopher), 1848, came from Or. in Sept. on the Henry, engag- ing in trade at Sutter's fort, as member of the firm of Priest, Lee, & Co. ; finally settled at Dayton, Or., where he was in '78. T. (Geo. W.), 1847, nat. of Va, who enlisted in Co. F, 3d artill., at Mont. (v. 518); in the mines '49, and later at Mont .; d. at Napa '84. Lancey. T. (Iliram), 1841, Amer. musi- cian in the Workman party from N. Mex. iv. 278-9. I have his original pass- port ilated Sti Fe Aug. 21th. At Los Ang. and on the Cosumnes '42; went to Or. with Leese in '43, but came back in '48. He made money in the mines, and settle I at Cloverdale, where he died at a date not given. T. (John), 1846, Co. C, Ist U.S. dragoons (v. 336). T. (John), 1847, Co. E, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); d. in N. Y. '79, T. (Joseph), 1847, Co. A, Morm. Bat. (v. 469).

Taylor (Nelson), 1847, nat. of Conn., and capt. of Co. E, N. Y. Vol. v. 504, 511. He was a dentist, and after a brief experience in the mines settled at Stockton as a trader, also running a ferry on the Stanislaus; memb. of Ist legislature; trustee of insane asylum from '50; sheriff from '54. In '56 he went to N. Y. and became a lawyer; brig. gen. in war of '61-5; in '65 inemb. of congress; in '71-85 resid. of South Norwalk, Conn. T. (Walter), 1847, sergt Co. G, N. Y. Vol. v. 504. T. (Wmn), ISIS, Amer. lieut of Bouchard's misurgents. ii. 227, 237. T. (Wm), 1828, Scotch tailor at Mont. '28-32, joining the comp. extranjera; a married man, age 34 in '29. iii. 178, 221. T. (Win), 1834, mr of the MMagruder. iii. 412, 383. T. (Wm), 1834, Engl. sailor who landed from the Margarita at S. Diego, where he still lived in '40, an unmarried carpenter, age 43. Perhaps the same who voted at S. D. in '48; name written Tela, Telen, and Thell. T. (W. E.), 1847, daughter born to his wife at Sonoma; at S. Jose '50. T. (W. II.), 1848, passp. from IIon.

Teal (Hiram', IStl, nat. of New England, who brought a stock of goods from Mazatlan, and kept a store at S. F. '41-3, with Titcomb as partner or clerk. iv. 279; v. 683. Ile went to Hon. in '43 on the Diamond, en ronte for Mex. Tela a (Gabriel), settler at the Colorado pueblos 1780-1, killed by Ind. i. 350, 362. Tetoria Je. ch, 183], named by Dye as one of Young's party. iii. 388. Tego Manuel , resid. of Branciforte '30. ii. 627. Tejeda (Jnan de A.), 1602, alferez of Vizcaino's exped. i. 98. Tellez (Rafael), 1842, Mex. lient-col and brevet-col in com. of Micheltorena's batallon fijo; somewhat prominent in Cal. affairs till sent to Mex. for aid in '44. iv. 289, 357, 367, 409, 439, 461, 471-2. In '46 he seems to have started for Cal. with troops, but in Sinaloa engaged in a revolution, v. 32-3, and became acting com. at Mazatlan, where he was when the Amer. took the town in Feb. '48. He seems to have died before the end of that year, and Californians, who did not like him, delight in the tra- dition that after a drunken debauch he drowned himself in a barrel of mescal!

Temple ( Francis I'liny F.), 1841, nat. of Mass., who came on the Tasso at the age of 20, engaging in trade at Los Ang. with his brother John. iv, 279. Later he established a stock rancho at S. Emigdio, near Ft Tejon; was a member of the banking firm of Hellman, T., & Co. from '68, and from '72 of T. & Workman. He died in '80 at his rancho of La Merced. iv. 635; v. 320; leaving a widow-the daughter of Wm Workman-and several children. Ile took but slight part in politics, but was always prominent in business affairs. All his property was lost by the failure of the banking firm in '75. In '77 he gave me a brief narrative of liis Rccollections, and rendered me assistance in

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obtaining testimony from others. T. (John), 1827, nat. of )lass., and brother of the preceding, who came from Hon. on the Waverly, and in the earliest years signed his name 'Jonathan.' iii. 149, 176-7. He was at once baptized at S. Diego, and after a few trading trips on the coast obtained naturalization and married Rafaela, daughter of Francisco Cota, in '30, engaging in trade at Los Ang., in partnership with Geo. Rice, till '32, and later alone, or with his brother from '41. ii. 558. I have some of his business corresp., but he does not figure in public affairs, except that the vigilantes of '36 met at his house. ii. 418, 539; iv. 117. In the sectional quarrels he took no part, but was glad in '39 to hear of Alvarado's final success; is named in the following years as creditor of southern missions; and in '45 was the purchaser of Purísima. iii. 595, 623; iv. 92, 553, 629, 648; v. 55S. In the annals of '46-7 he is named in connection with financial matters, having Cal. claims to the amount of about $16,000. v. 49-50, 435, 467. From about '48, becoming owner of the Cerritos rancho, iii. 633, he gave his attention to stock-raising on a large scale; later he was the builder of the Temple block and other fine structures at Los Au- geles; and in Maximilian's time obtained an immensely profitable lease of the Mexican mint. He died at S.F. in '66, at the age of 68. He had been an able and successful man of business, socially genial and well liked. His widow sur- vived him, living in Paris with her daughter, Mrs Ajuria, the only child of whom I find any mention, born in '31.

Tenchman (Christian), 1846, Co. C, Ist U.S. dragoons (v. 336). Ten Eck (Anthony), 1848, U.S. commissioner from Hon. on the Humboldt. Tenid (Th.), 1846, doubtful name in a Los Ang. list. Tennent (Archibald), 1848,

passp. from Hon. T. (Sam. J.), 1848, Engl. surgeon on a whaler, who left his vessel at the Islands and came to Cal. on hearing of the gold discovery. He married Rafaela Martinez and settled at Pinole rancho, Contra Costa, where he still lived in '82 with 5 children, his wife having died in '6S. Por- trait in Contra Costa Co. Hist., 46. Tenorio (Ignacio), nat. of S. Amer., who had been oidor of the audiencia of Quito, and a very rich man, but who, tra- ditionally, had devoted his fortune to charitable and educational purposes, and came to Cal. about '13 to live with the friars. Not much is known of him except that he was buried at S. Juan Cap. in '31 by P. Zalvidea, who in the record spoke in high terms of his piety.

Teran (José M.), regidor at Branciforte '34. iii. 696; memb. of the S. Diego ayunt. '37, and in trouble. iii. 50S; perhaps two men. Termain (James Gil- bert), 1843, recommended by the Engl. consul for a carta. Terrill (Joel J.), 1847, sergt Co. C, Morm. Bat. v. 477; at Ogden, Utah, in 'S2. Teschemacher (Fred. Henry), 1842, clerk aud supercargo of Boston trading craft '42-S. iv. 341; v. 579; owner of S. F. lots '46-7; resid. of S.F. after '49; cl. of the Lup- yomi rancho, Napa, '52. iv. 671; mayor of S.F .; still living in 'S5, when he visited S.F. Portrait and brief biog. notice in North Pac. Review. i. 223, 252. I have a few of his early letters; but for so prominent a pioneer there is a re- markable lack of information about him. Tessau, 1837, officer of Petit- Thouars' exped., making a survey of S. F. bay. iv. 149.

Thaffer (Andrew), 1847, Co. E, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); d. S.F. '79. Thamen (Henry), 1847, owner of S.F. lot. Theall (Hiram W.), IS47, lieut Co. D, N. Y. Vol. v. 504; an early settler of Sonora; d. at White Pine, Nev., before '82; prob. iu '69. Theyer (Geo.), 1848, from Or., a settler in S. Joaquin. Thing (Capt.), IS38, left S. Diego for Boston on the Kent. iv. 104.

Thomas, 1845, doubtful immig. of the Grigsby-Ide party. iv. 579. T.,

1846, at Sta Cruz, June; perhaps same as following. T., 1847, mr of the Laura Ann '47-S. v. 570; perhaps L. H. T., IS47, at Sutter's fort. T. (Ambrose), 1836, at S. José Dec .; also Antonio at Los Ang. '33; both prob. 'Tomlinson,' q.v. T. (Christian), 1847, owner of S.F. lot. v. 685. T. (Elijah), 1847, Co. C, Morm. Bat. (v. 469); at Leeds, Utah, 'S2. T. (Ig- nacio), 1818, Engl. sailor who left the Bordelais, ii. 393, and in '29 lived at S. José, age 41, and blind. T. (John W.), 1847, Co. A, N.Y. Vol. (v. 499); at S. José '82. T. (L. H.), 1848, sold piano to Larkin; conducted prayer at the S.F. school-house. v. 657. T. (Thomas), 1840, one of the S. Blas

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exiles who did not return. iv. 18. Thomen (Henry), 1846, overl. immig. who worked for Sutter, and owned S. F. lot '47; at Sac. '60, age 45; perhaps at S.F. '79.

Thomes (Robert Hasty), 1841, nat. of Me, and overl. immig. of the Bar- tleson party. iv. 270. 275, 279. With Albert G. Toomes he worked as car- penter and builder at S. F. in '41-2, and later at Mont., where the firm name of Thomes & Toomes appears often in Larkin's books and other records. In '44 he was naturalized, and obtained a grant of Los Saucos, Tehama. iv. 673; and may have put some cattle on the place in '45, but did not settle there till '47, being mentioned at Mont. in '45-7, especially as a member of the Ist jury. v. 289. He took no part in the war or in politics, but spent his life- with a brief interval of mining on Feather River-on his Tehama rancho, be- coming a wealthy and highly respected and influential citizen. He died in 78, at the age of 61, leaving no family. A sister resides in Oakland '85 as the wife of Isaac Given, a pioneer of '41. Portrait in Tehama Co. Ilist., 108. T. (Wm H.) 1843, nat. of Me, and distant relative of R. Il., who came from Boston as a sailor-boy, age 16, on the Admittance, which he left in '45, and returned cast in '46 on the sehr California to Mazatlan, and thence via Eng- land to Boston. Again he came to ('al. in '49 on the Edward Everett, return- ing via Manilla, etc., on the Alec. Humboldt. In Boston he was a journalist on the daily papers, and from '62 a publisher on his own account, making a comfortable fortune, which was lost in the great fire of '72. In later years of the firm of Thomes & Talbot, publishers of Ballou's Monthly; also author of many romances of adventure for boys. On Sea and Land, one of his latest works, is a narrative of adventures in Cal. on the Admittance in '42-5, full of

mterest and bad Spanish, remarkably accurate in its foundation of names and «lates; let us hope that the superstructure of the sailor-boy's personal experi- ences is equally reliable. A later story of Cal. life, covering the period of the conquest and now appearing in the Monthly is likely to be as fascinating if somewhat less historic. An excellent account of the trip and company of 49 was also written by Thomes for the magazine, reprinted in the S.P. Alta of Oct. 22, 29. '82. In '85 he revisited C'al. to revive old recollections, at which time he furnished me many useful items about early men and things, also permitting me to consult the original Diary of Capt. Peterson, his old mas- ter on the Admittance, and later his father-in-law.

Thompson, 1841, blacksmith at Los Ang, and Sta B. T. (A.), 1839, pas- senger from Hon. on the Clementine, iv. 102, 127. T. (Alpheus B.), 1823, nat. of Me, and sup. on the Washington '25-30, having possibly visited the roast earlier. ini. 29, 139, 149; sup. of the Conroy '31; in '33-5 sup. of the Loriot, being arrested for smuggling in '33, and in '35 carrying prisoners to Mex. iii. 288, 365, 383, 393. He considered Sta B. his home, and dated his residence from '34, that being the year in which he married Francisca, daugh- ter of Carlos Carrillo, by whom he had 3 children before June '36. I have much of his corresp. from year to year. In '36-7 he was sup. of the Bolivar, on which he went to Hon. and back in '37; from '38 had a hide-house in the Clark's Point region of S. F .; is named as mr of the Union in '40; and also as creditor of several missions, iii. 657, 660; iv. 101, 106, 117; v. 684-3. He went to Hon. on the Julia Ann '41; was naturalized in '43, being still sup. of the Bolivar; was owner of the Oujaca in '44-5, sub-prefect at Sta B. '46, grantee of a rancho in S. Joaquin Co., having a Cal. claim of some $2,000, and being in all these years engaged to some extent in otter-hunting. iv. 563, 566-7; v. 282, 330, 455, 675. His name frequently occurs in commercial rec- ords down to '48; and after that date continned to reside at Sta B .. where, and throughout the country, he had an excellent reputation for honorable conduct. He died at Los Ang. in '69 at the age of 74. His wife had died in '41, but there were 2 daughters and 4 sons who survived. One of the sons, Francis, is a somewhat prominent citizen of Sta B., and in '78 rendered me assistance in my search of the mission archives.

Thompson (Bluford K.), 1846, overl. immig. and capt. Co. G, Cal. Bat., taking part in the fight at Natividad. v. 361, 364-72. He was a coarse, pro-

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fane, reckless fellow, a gambler by profession, with some pretensions to gen- tlemanly manners when sober; known sometimes as 'Red-headed' or 'Hell Roaring ' Thompson. After the war he settled at Stockton, being candidate for Ind. agent in '47. v. 662; where he soon killed James McKee. He was tried for murder at Sutter's fort in Feb.' 48, being acquitted; but was obliged to quit the country, and en the way east was killed in a new quarrel with R. Taggart on the Sweetwater. T. (Ch.), 1847, at Sutter's fort. T. (Edward), 1844, Amer. sailor on the sehr California, in trouble at Mont. T. (Edwin), 1848, at S.F. as he testified in '65. T. (Frank A.), 1832, mr of the Roxana *32-3. iii. 384; mr of the Pilgrim and Alert '35-6. iii. 381, 383; iv. 100. T. (Geo. A.), 1839, naturalist who came from Hon. on the Clementine with let- ters from John C. Jones to the gov. and Gen. Vallejo. He was in search of speeimens; ealled also Gordon H. T. T. (Henry), 1847, Co. D, Morm. Bat. (v. 469). T. (James), 1828, Irish sailor, age 28, from Aeapuleo on the Maria Ester at S. Diego with a letter from Virmond, intending to settle. ii. 545; iii. 178; got a carta in '29; in his application seems to say he had lived 8 years in C'al., but prob. means in Mex. T. (James), 1846, sergt-major of Fauntleroy's dragoons (v. 232, 247): perhaps the man at Benicia 47. T. (James), 1847, Co. A, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); perhaps the man who on July 4th read the dcela- ration at S.F .; at Brooklyn, N. Y., `82. T. (James L.), 1847, Co. C, Morm. Bat. (v. 469).

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History of California, Volume XXII, Part 84

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe Publication date: 1885-1890 Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers Number of Pages: 816

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Publication date: 1885-1890
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers
Number of Pages: 816