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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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 Benjamin Hill, San Pedro, (Deceased), 1901. The Society of California Pioneers Benjamin Hill left Boston on January 27, 1849 on the Brig "Almena"- Captain John Lincoln- with a company known as the "Bay State and California Trading Co." of twenty-eight members. After a stop at Talcahuanna, Chile they arrived in San Francisco in the early part of July 1849, and proceeded from there, to Sacramento. In Sacramento, Hill bought a house and lot from Captain Sutter for $1500. He then sent members of his company to Webber Creek to dig for gold. Hill assisted in the preparation of the steamship McKinnon, claimed to be the first steamboat to carry passengers on the Sacramento River. Hill was also engaged in lumber sales Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p.182-185, 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 transcription includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes, but there is no longer a photograph of this member in our collection. This unfinished reminiscence was found among Benjamin Hill's papers after his death. It contains some anecdotes about life in mining camps, particularly trouble with gamblers. The names of different steamboats that traveled up the Sacramento River are also given.
Hill, Benjamin--1819-1895 Pioneers--California--Biography Frontier and pioneer life Gold mines and mining Voyages to the Pacific Coast Steamboats--California--San Francisco California--Biography California--History--19th century Sacramento (Calif.)--History
Time Period
California -- History -- 19th century
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Pioneers California Biography Steamboats San Francisco. History 19th century. California, Northern. Sacramento (Calif.)
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