Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.
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Available also in the original handwritten form in the member's Biographical File, and online Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader Autobiography & Reminiscence of John Runyon Fouratt, South Amboy, New Jersey, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers In January of 1849 John Runyon Fouratt left New York for California aboard the schooner, "Roe". There were twenty-five people in the party. They stopped in Rio de Janeiro and then proceeded to the Straits of Magellan. They arrived in San Francisco on June 29, 1949. Fouratt's business was piloting vessels from San Francisco up the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p.84-86, Vol. 1. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. The original handwritten version exists in the member's Biographical File. This brief reminiscence begins with a short description of Fouratt's passage to San Francisco in 1849. Some financial information is provided in regards to the cost of provisions.
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