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List of SF Gold Rush Property Sales to Sam Brannan & Others [155409]

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List of SF Gold Rush Property Sales to Sam Brannan & Others [155409]
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"List of Lots Sold in the City of San Francisco and Purchased by Members of the Town Council." Report from Horace Hawes, Prefect of San Francisco, March 1850. 9 pp. disbound from a book. Many of the lots are listed as being purchased by Samuel Brannan. Other buyers include: JW Osborn, Frank Turk, Foster & HL Dodge, GB Post, WH Davis, and Geo. E. Tyler. 9.25 x 6" Foxing, rough edges, rips to last page. Pages are loose. Samuel Brannan was an American settler, businessman, journalist, and prominent Mormon who founded the California Star (in January 1847), the first newspaper in San Francisco, California. He is considered the first to publicize the California Gold Rush and was its first millionaire. After the death of Joseph Smith, Brannan chartered the ship Brooklyn and persuaded the Mormons of New York to join the expedition to California. The Brooklyn set sail for upper California via Cape Horn in January 1846. In 1847, Brannan opened a store at Sutter's Fort. Early in 1848, employees of John Sutter paid for goods in Brannan's store with gold they had found at Sutter's Mill. Brannan's newspaper could not publish the news of the gold strike as his staff had left in a rush for the gold fields. But since he owned the only store between San Francisco and the gold fields, he bought up all the picks, shovels and pans he could find, and ran up and down the streets of San Francisco, shouting "Gold! Gold on the American River!" His Sutter's Fort store sold $150,000 of goods a month in 1849. He used these profits to buy property in SF, as evidenced by this report.

Date: c.1850
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: San Francisco
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