The beginnings of San Francisco : from the expedition of Anza, 1774, to the city charter of April 15, 1850 : with biographical and other notes, Vol. II, Part 22

Author: Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner, 1846-1915
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: San Francisco : Z.S. Eldredge
Number of Pages: 494


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783


APPENDIX


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Yount (George C.), Life and Adventures. MS.


INDEX


Aceves, Antonio Quiterio, biography 297


Ackerman, J. Henry 601


Agua Amarga, watering place I22


Agua Caliente, watering place. 105, 106, 109


Agua Caliente (Warner's ranch) 674


Agua Escondida (in Papaguería) 60, 62


Agua Escondida (in California) 122


Aguage (definition) 74


Aguirre, Antonio 201


Aguirre, Juan Bautista 48, 329


Alabado, a hymn IO3


Alamo river 74,315


Alarcon, Hernando de. 336


Alcatraces, Alcatraz, island 47,50


Alcalde map 512,513


Alexander VI., Pope 21


Allen, Major Robert


694


Almaden mines


377


Almond, William B 606


Alta California, newspaper


587


Altamirano, Justo Roberto 295


Altar, presidio 73


Altar, Rio del . 149


Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 179, 180, 232, 233, 236, 238, 256, 257, 260, 366, 378, 480, 508, 511, 518, 520, 533


biography . .350-351


Alvarado, María Ignacia, wife of Pio Pico 363


Alvarez, Luis Joaquin 298


Alvires, Claudio 333


Alviso, Domingo 293


Alviso, Ignacio 341


Alvitre, Sebastian 332


Amesti, José . 526


Americans, arrival of first armed parties 236


787


788


THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


American river 375, 444, 461


gold on 448


Amezquita, Josefa, wife of Sal 719


Amézquita, Juan Antonio


295


Amézquita, Manuel Domingo 332


Angel island 47,50


Anthony, Rev. Elihu


590


Anza, Juan Bautista, 48, 55-151, 309, 312, 328, 330, 717, 720,


738, 749, 750, 752


illness of 129


exploration of peninsula and Rio de San Francisco. .. 129-151 diaries of .


760


military reservation secured by him 728


Arballo, María Feliciana


305


Arce, Francisco C. 393


Archuleta, Ignacio 322


Archuleta, Miguel 207


Arellano, Arellanes, Manuel Ramirez 299


Arellano, Arellanes, Teodoro 300


Argonauts, arrival at San Francisco 456


names given by them 490


Argüello, Doña Concepcion 193,344-345


Argüello, José Darío 320, 344, 718, 719, 721, 740


Argüello, Luis Antonio 344, 719,721 Argüello, Santiago 191


Arivaca . 57


Arizona, Arizonac 283


57,


Armstrong, James 259


Army of the West 671


672


arrival at Santa Fé


march for California 672 dragoons sent back 673


Arrillaga, José Joaquin 227, 275


Arroba (definition) 211


Arroyo Seco 92, 127


789


INDEX


Arroyo de Buenos Ayres . 141


Arroyo de San José Cupertino I3I


Arroyo de San Salvador 136


Arroyo del San Mateo


134


Arroyo del Bosque 41


Arroyo del Puerto 132


Arroyo del Rincon 123


Arroyo de los Dolores


134,717


Arroyo de los Llagas


130, 234


Artisans imported . 162


Asuncion, ranchería of I26


Asuncion, military camp 126


Austin, Alexander .


457


Ávila, Concepcion, Fuller's wife


515


Ávila, Francisco 332


Ayala, Juan Manuel de. 44


Ayuntamiento (definition) 165


Ayuntamiento for San Francisco ordered 500


Ayuntamiento elected 604


Backus, Oscar J 457


Bahia de los Pinos 272


Bahia Redonda 42, 132, 137


Bailey, Theodorus, Lieut. Com'r 479


Baja California . II8


Bajio (definition) 59


Baker, Colonel E. D 740


Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de 738


Bancroft, George, secretary of the navy 391


Bandini, José, daughters of 193


Barreneche, Barrenche, Fray Juan Antonio 312


Bartleson, John. 253


Bartlett, John Russell. 191


790


THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


Bartlett, Washington A 512, 514, 518


appointed alcalde 545


captured by Sanchez 548


released .


549


orders name San Francisco used on all public docu- ments 550


Battalion of convicts ordered 236


Battalion arrives


237


Batallon Fijo. 237


Beale, Edward F 679, 741


Bear flag 402


Bear flag war. 393-410


Bear river (in Utah) 253,376


Bear river (in California) 394, 462


Beechey, Capt. Frederick William, R. N 499


Begg, John & Co


2II


Belden, Josiah


253, 526


Benicia


355


Benton, Thomas H. 383, 388, 401, 425, 686-687


Bernal, Doña Carmen Sibrian de 328


Bernal, José Francisco, biography 301,747


Berreyesa, José de los Reyes 304, 406-408, 503, 753


Berreyesa, José de los Santos. 190, 407, 754-756


Berreyesa, Nicolas Antonio 304


Bidwell, John 253, 398, 423


Bigelow, John 456


Birdsall, John M 458


Birney, Robert 523


Blaisdell, Samuel F 457


Bluxome, Isaac, Jr 599, 743


Bodega y Quadra, Juan Francisco 44,137


Bodega, Russian settlement. 226


Bocana de la Ensenada de los Farallones 41


Boggs, Lilburn W 627


Boiling springs, Humboldt desert 472


791


INDEX


Bojorques, José Ramon 295


Bojorques, Pedro Antonio 303 Bolton, James R 571


Borega valley 87 Borica, Diego de. 162, 188, 245


Boronda, Manuel. 207


Borromeo, Count Cárlos 269


Bosqui, Edward 530


Boston man


243


Boston nation.


245


Bouchard, Captain Hippolyte 227


Bowden, Joseph .


590


Bowie, Dr. Augustus J 617


Branciforte, Villa de, founded I 6c


Brannan, Samuel .


264, 448, 533, 543, 589, 599, 743


biography


709


Breen, Margaret, wife of Patrick (Donner party),


648, 651, 652, 653


Breen, Patrick (Donner party)


627, 643, 652


Bridger and Vasquez. 629


Briones, Juana .


518, 524, 525


Broderick, David C. 594, 595, 747


Brodie, S. H 458


Brooke, Lloyd 457


Brown, Charles 408


Brown, John Henry 518, 527, 544


biography 764-765 Brown's hotel . 527


Bryan, W. P


606


Bryant, Edwin


172, 173, 631, 742


appointed alcalde


550


his book. 551


Bryant, Colonel J. J 585


Bryant and Sturgis 516


Buckalew's Point


515


792


THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


Bucaréli y Ursúa, Antonio, viceroy of New Spain,


42, 56, 174, 216, 274, 343, 749, 752


Buchanan, James, secretary of state 387


secret dispatch . 388-391


Buey de Agua (definition)


43


Burnett, Peter H


489, 605, 71I


Burritt, Judge Samuel L., residence of 617


Burrows, Captain Charles 130, 416


Bush, Dr. J. P. 737


Burton, Louis T. 196


Burton, Henry S 553


Butron, Manuel


216


Butterfield, B. F


457


Butte, a town


140


Buttes of Sacramento valley 388, 392


Caballería (definition) 78


Cabecera (definition) 234


Caborca, mission of 57,58, 149


Cabrillo, Juan Rodrigues 272, 738


Cáceres, Francisco


515


Cady, Charles, second relief (Donner party) 648, 649, 652


Cahuenga pass .


122


Cahuenga, peace of


418, 425, 681


Calaveras river .


378


California families, origin of


189


costume .


198


courtesy


201


honesty 201


203


name changed 228


240


battalion


415


march of . 417


presidential vote, 1856 427


hospitality


deplorable condition of .


793


INDEX


California, gulf of 336


Californians, a fine race 189-200


revolt of . 415


Californian (newspaper)


586-587


California Star (newspaper)


587-588


California Star express


591


Calle de la Fundacion


507


Camino del Diablo


58


Campa y Cos, Fray Miguel


5I


Cañada de la Graciosa


124


Cañada de San Andrés


43, 135


Cañada (definition)


86


Cañon (definition)


86


Cañizares, José.


45, 48, 49


Canoe.


IO2


Cantil Blanco .


718


Cantil at Montgomery street


496


Caponeras (definition)


546


Carlos III., king of Spain


39


Carquines, straits of .


31, 40, 42, 48, 49, 137


Carr, Jesse D.


568


Carrillo, Anastacio 189


Carrillo, Cárlos Antonio 189, 196, 233, 515


Carrillo, Doña Francisca Benicia, wife of Vallejo 355


Carrillo, Guillermo 195


Carrillo, José Antonio 190, 233, 430, 431, 433, 680


Carrillo, Joaquin .


196


Carrillo, María Antonia Victoria, wife of Ortega 275


Carrillo, Mariano 195


Carrillo, Raimundo 195


Carrillo, Ramon 196, 197


Carrillo, daughters of Carlos Antonio 196


Carrillo, daughters of Joaquin 196 Carrizal (in Papaguería). 58, 59, 149


Carrizo (definition) 74


794


THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


Carrizo creek 85


Carson, Kit. 375, 406, 407, 673, 679, 756


Carson pass 375


Carson river 375, 466


Carson sink. 466


Carson valley 461,470


Carson valley hot springs 467


Casa Fundadora 500


Castañares, Manuel . 433


Castillo de San Cárlos (Monterey) 477, 478, 479, 480


Castillo de San Joaquin 135, 231, 409, 542, 543, 720


Castle Dome 70


Castro, Angel María 380


Castro, Joaquin Isidro.


Castro, José


179, 191, 233, 257, 260, 261, 380, 419


Castro, Manuel de Jesus 130, 240, 377, 380


Castro, María Lugarda, wife of Thomas W. Doak. 247


Castro, Doña Modesto, wife of the general . 191


Castro, Victor 506 Cattle, slaughter of 177


Cattle thieves 485


Cayuco (definition) 44


Central (Long) wharf.


374, 532


Cermeño, Sebastian Rodrigues


272


Cerro Colorado


141


Cerro de San Pablo III


Chagres river and fever


454


Chico, Mariano, governor 232, 506


Chiles, Joseph B 253


70


Chino (definition) 1 60


Cholera on isthmus


454


desert .


465, 470, 472


Chimney peak .


plains . 462


deaths from


467, 472


300, 743


795


INDEX


Cholos (definition) 228


Cholos 238-240


Churches in San Francisco 591


Cienega (definition) 82


Cienega de San Sebastian, 82, 85, 86, 106, 113, 114, 116, 289, 290 City hall 584 City hotel . 527, 582, 584


City wharves 573,575


Civil fund


488, 607, 694


Clark, Newman S., general 731


Clark, Nicholas, second relief (Donner party), 648, 649, 654, 656


565


Clark, William S., his methods of obtaining town lots first wharf .


573


Clark's Point named for him


573


Cocopa mountains 79, 80


Coffeemire, Edward, first and fourth relief (Donner party)


646, 656


College of San Fernando I45 Colorado desert 73, 82, 94, 106, 109, 111, 315, 317


Colorado, missions of the 148, 309-313 Colorado river, 63, 69, 95, 106, 109, 110, 147, 148, 315, 3 17, 336-338 Colton, Walter 421,477,586


216


Colonization


162


failure of mission plan for.


163


Comisario prefecto


230


Commercial street


575,577


Commonwealth founded


489


Community of men


490


Compadre (definition) 197


Companía Extranjera 236


Constitutional convention. 487


162, 189


Convicts sent to California.


Cooke, Philip St. George 264


Cooper, John Bautista Roger 517


Colonists, pay of


796


THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


Cooper, John Burwood, alias "Jack the Sailor" 517


Cordero, Mariano Antonio. 718


Córdoba, Alberto de, engineer 187


Cordua, Theodore 641


Corita (definition) 147


Corlear, governor of New York 243


Corlear, Arent van


243


Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de


336


Cortés, Hernando


21


Costansó, Miguel


32, 35, 94, 164, 190


Cota, Pablo de . 320


Coutts, Lieutenant Cave J 485


Cowie and Fowler


404


Coyote creek .


86,87, 116


Coyote river . 130, 136, 14I


Crespi, Fray Juan .31, 34, 40, 124, 131, 319, 320


Croix, Carlos Francisco de, viceroy of New Spain


39


Croix, Teodoro de .


310


Cross, Hobson and company's building


531


Cupertino I3I


Cunningham, William H 250


Curtis, Joseph R 605


Curtis, Jotham 641


Custom house at San Francisco


529, 530


Customs dues 215, 216


Dall and Austin 577


Dana, Richard Henry, Jr 193, 196, 215, 499, 532


Dana, William G 196, 250


Dantí, Fray Antonio 497


Davidson, Professor George. 272, 744 his services in Limantour case. 570


biography 765-767


Davidson, Lieutenant John W 673, 675, 680


797


INDEX


Davis, John Calvert 515 Davis, William Heath, 214, 215, 256, 444, 508, 523, 529, 583, 588 761, 762


Dead Man's island 430


Diaz, Benito 531,724


Diaz, Fray Juan 57,75,31I


Diaz, Manuel, alcalde of Monterey 383


Diaz, Captain Melchior 58, 63, 69, 336, 337


Diaz, del Castillo, biography


760


De Boom, John Cornelius 612


Defensores de la patria 235


De Haro, Francisco, 202, 407, 503, 506, 511, 748


De Haro, Francisco and Ramon . 407, 408, 503, 753, 754, 756


De Haro, Doña Josefa, wife of Guerrero 534


De la Guerra, Doña Angustias 193,195


De la Guerra, Pablo. . 194, 487, 488


De la Guerra y Noriega, José. 2II, 247, 342, 721, 738 daughters of 193


Del Valle, Ignacio 444


De Mofras, Eugene Duflot 171-173


Denton, John (Donner party) 627, 637, 647


Derby, Lieutenant George H 458


De Soto, Ignacio 151, 297


Desperadoes. 483


Dewey and Heiser 576


De Witt, Alfred . 459


De Witt and Harrison 583


De Witt, Kittle & Co 583


Diseño (definition) 218


District (bounds of) 233


Doak, Thomas W 196, 247


Dodge, Henry L


605


Dofar, Mathew, second relief (Donner party) 648, 650


Dolan, Patrick (Donner party) 627, 637, 638


Dolores, mission of 157


798


THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


Dominguez, Manuel 197,488


Dominican Monks 174


Doniphan's regiment 671


Donner party . 473, 627, 631


measures for relief of 563-564


composition of.


627, 628


the Oregon trail .


627


emigrants at Independence 627


George Donner


627-628, 643, 650, 655, 656, 658


Jacob Donner .


627, 643, 644, 650


Tamsen Donner, wife of George, 645, 649, 650, 656, 658, 659 James F. Reed 627, 632 Reed loses his cattle


632


he kills Snyder 633


is banished to desert . 633 sets off for California


634


Boggs, Lilburn W


627


Russell, William H


627


death of Mrs. Keyes


628


Black hills


629


South pass 629


meet Bridger and Vasquez


629


at Fort Laramie 629


at Fort Bridger 629 meet L. W. Hastings 629


take Hastings' cut-off 630


joined by Harlan party 630 in Weber cañon 631 Wasatch range 631 reach Salt lake 631


632


death of Halloran


633


reach Humboldt river


quarrels 633


death of Snyder 633


INDEX


799


Donner party, the sink of the Humboldt 634


all on foot .


death of Hardcoop 634


death of Wolfinger 634


635


they reach the Truckee


635


relief train arrives 635


rest at Truckee meadows


635


a snow storm 635


unable to cross the sierra 636


camp on Donner and Alder creeks 636-637


death of Pike. 637


the forlon hope


637


death of Stanton, Dolan, Graves, Antonio, and Mur- phy. 638


' Luis and Salvador killed for food


638


forlorn hope passes out from the sierra 638


arrive at Johnson's rancho


638


first relief starts . 639


reach summit . 640


arrival of Reed at Johnson's 640


Sutter furnishes supplies 641


Reed's ineffectual attempts to reach the emigrants 641


he enlists in Frémont's army 641


in Santa Clara campaign 642


second relief starts . 642


suffering and death in the mountain camps 643


arrival of the first relief 644


they start on return with twenty-two sufferers. 646


meet second relief coming in 647


second relief reaches camps 648


starts on return with seventeen emigrants. 648


suffering and death at starved camp 651-653


third relief reaches starved camp and mountain camps,


654-655


Tamsen Donner refuses to leave dying husband.


655


800 THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


Donner party, fourth relief reaches camps. Only Keseberg alive 656


absurd stories concerning Keseberg 657-658


description of the trail 659, 660


Douglas, James . 368, 520, 521


Douglas, Thomas


588


Drake, Francis 272 Dress of San Franciscans 614, 615


Drinking and gambling


620, 621


Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste


499


Du Pont, Captain Samuel F 735


Dwinelle, John W I 57


Echeandía, José María, governor. 175, 208, 251, 499, 721 Eddy, William H. (Donner party),


627, 637, 639, 640, 653, 654, 655


Eddy, William M


Ejidos (definition)


El Buchon. 514,737


234


El Cojo 124


El Divisadero 501-502


El Dorado 584


El Polin, ojo de agua 188 Ellis, Alfred J 531, 599, 737


Embarcadero of the Sacramento 445


Emmons, Geo. F., lieutenant. 339


Emory, William H.


315, 458, 673, 675, 678


Ensenada del Carmelita 46 Esaire, Fray Tomás 100, 146 Escolta (definition). 224


Estrada, José Antonio 351


Estudillo, José Joaquin 505


Expediente (definition) 218


1 66


INDEX 801


Fages, Pedro 39, 40, 77, 93, 136, 161, 274, 277, 278


Fallon, Malachi 457,606


Fallon, William O., fourth relief (Donner party) 656 guide. 657


Fanega (definition) 91


Farallon islands I33


Fauntleroy, Daingerfield 4II


Fauntleroy's dragoons 4II


Fay, Caleb T. 597


Felch, Judge Alpheus 155


Felix, José Vicente 302


Feo, Captain Pablo 288


Ferdinand VII., king of Spain I66


Fernandez, José Perez


721


Figueroa, José, governor,


167, 175, 176, 185, 228, 229, 500-502, 504


death of


I79


Finch, John


531,532 612


Finley, Johnson and company


Fire.


594


Fire department organized.


595


First New York volunteers 552


arrival in San Francisco 552


services in California. 553


personnel of 553


557


mutiny in 557


Fitch, George K. 458


196, 526


Fitch, Henry Delano


Flores, José María 429, 680


Folsom, Captain Joseph L 451, 519, 529, 553


lays off military reservation 723-724 Folsom, town of 527 Font, Fray Pedro 100, 103, 109, 111, 128, 132-142


diary of 760


services, Lower California


802


THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


Forbes, Cleveland 453


Forbes, Alexander. 258


Forbes, James Alexander 258, 539


Ford, Henry L. 404


Foreigners, arrest of 257


Foreign trade. 209, 210


Boston houses predominate 212


Fort Bridger


630


Fort Hall.


462, 630


Fort Laramie


462


Fort Montgomery


543


Fort Ross .


226, 367, 521


Fort Point.


50, 133


Fort Vancouver


520


Fort Winfield Scott


731


Forster, John 362


Fosdick, Jay (Donner party


628, 638


Foster, Stephen C. .


487, 685


Foster, William M. (Donner party),


627, 637, 638, 653, 654, 655, 656, 658


Fourgeaud, Dr. Victor J


588, 592


Franciscan monks


171, 181, 186


Fernandinos 185 Zacatecans 185 Franklin, Selim. 739


Franklin, Stephen 458


Frémont, John C 262, 723, 742, 757


biography of 374-427


expeditions of 1842 and 1843 374


enters California, 1844. 375


expedition of 1845-1846 376


affair of Gavilan peak 380-384


meeting with Gillespie 387


attacked by Klamaths 387


stirs up settlers 392


803


INDEX


Frémont, John C., captures Arce's horses 393


captures Sonoma . 394


organization of Bear flag party 395


prisoners sent to Sacramento 397


applies to Montgomery for supplies 399


Bear flag raised. 402


Ide's proclamation 402


murder of Cowie and Fowler 404


assumes command of the Bears 406


murder of Berreyesa and the De Haros 407


escape of De la Torre. 408


spikes guns at San Francisco 409


end of Bear flag war . 410


hot pursuit of Castro 4II


description of his party 412


Sloat takes possession 414


Frémont marches south 415


the Californian battalion 416


the peace of Cahuenga 417


appointed governor by Stockton 417


his statements and testimony 419-426


nominated for the presidency 426


the vote in California . 427


his endorsement of Phelps' claim 712


Fresh pond . I34


Friday of Sorrows I34


Frisbie, Captain John B 554


Fuente, Pedro Perez de la 306


Fuller, John Casimiro


514,515


Fuller, Mrs. John 522


Fur trade


209


Gale, William A.


197, 209-21I


Gallegos, Carlos


296


Galindo, José Antonio


202, 503, 534


804


THE BEGINNINGS OF SAN FRANCISCO


Galindo, Nicholas 303


Galvez, José de 31,55,744


Gantt, Captain John. 370


Garcés, Fray Francisco (Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo),


57, 69, 75, 76, 95, 100, 102, 109, 146, 305, 309, 312, 313, 314 Garcia, Bernardino, desperado 404


Garcia, José Antonio 296


Gardner's lagoon 74


Garnett, Major R. S 355


Gavilan creek 40, 130


Gavilan mountains 40, 130


Gavilan peak. 263, 381-385


Geary, John W 582,737


first alcalde 605


biography of 606


Gelston and company 590


Gendreau, Joseph, second relief (Donner party) 648, 650


Gente de razon (translation of) 307


Gibson, Samuel 404, 675, 676


Gila bend 96


Gila mountains 62, 63, 64, 69, 95, 103, 104, 108, 148


61,62


Gila river.


Gilbert, Edward 487,554 Gillespie, Archibald H, 387, 399, 406, 428, 675, 676, 713, 754, 756 Gillespie, Charles V.


590, 618


Gillespie, Mrs. Charles V


590


Gilroy hot springs, site of 14I


Gilroy, John 246, 247


Gilroy, town of . 247


Glover, Aquila, first relief (Donner party) 646


Gold in 1843 443


discovery of, 1848 444


first assay 592


deposited for customs dues 608


value of


608-609


805


INDEX


Gold excitement 553


Golden Gate .


31,34, 41,456


first passage of . 45


Gomez, Joaquin 383


Gomez, José .


147


Gonzales, Diego


718


Gonzales, José Manuel


Goose creek


303,332


462


Gough, Charles H.


739


Goycoechea, Felipe


245, 246


Graciosa, La Laguna


124


Graciosa, Cañada de la


124


Graciosa station


124


Graham house


585


Graham, Isaac .


232, 480


Graveyard in San Francisco


591


Gray, William


722


Green river .


253, 462


Green, Talbot H. 253, 580, 581, 603, 736


Greenwood, Brittan, second relief (Donner party) 442, 448


Gregson's baby (Mrs) 528


Grigsby, John 394, 395, 396


Grigsby-Ide party 397


Grimes, Captain Eliab 533




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