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Unused Gold Rush Banking Documents including the very rare town of Don Pedro's Bar

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Unused Gold Rush Banking Documents including the very rare town of Don Pedro's Bar
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Lot of three. 1) Banking House of Montezuma. Duplicate of Exchange. 1854. 2) Banking house of P. A. Lamping. Original of exchange. 186-. 3) Check from Banking House, Don Pedro's Bar. 1854. Located in Toulumne County.



A prominent French pioneer has emerged from an obscure page of California history as the man for whom Don Pedro Dam is named. His name was Pierre Sainsevain. Don Pedro? A Frenchman? Certainly anyone who owned a rancho in early California was accorded the title of Don, and Pierre translates to Pedro in Spanish. Sainsevain arrived in California on the ship Ayacucho in 1836. He was a twenty year old carpenter with a passport stamped in Bordeaux. His first adventures in the state are unrecorded, but by 1839 he had made his way to Los Angeles, where he joined his famous Uncle, Don Luis Del Aliso, in winemaking. He proved himself to be a very talented vintner and soon he loaded a ship with wines and sold them from port to port, up and down the California coast. In 1843, Sainsevain was granted the Canada del Rincon rancho near Santa Cruz. He spoke no English, but was fluent in Spanish and easily met the requirements to receive land from the Mexican government. These requirements included his naturalization as a Mexican citizen. In 1846, Sainsevain met up with fellow Frenchman, Charles Roussillon and together they built a schooner, opened a saw mill near Santa Cruz and a flour mill near San Jose. Sainsevain and Roussillon met J.A. Moerenhout, the French consul at San Francisco and much of what is known of their gold rush experiences comes from Moerenhout’s recollections. Moerenhout had met both Frenchmen in San Jose, but he may have found their dust begrimed faces hard to recognize when he next met them in the mines near Coloma in July 1848. “Their place was well chosen, a little stream of excellent clear water, but with their usual negligence there was not a tent and though they gave me a hearty welcome and, considering where we were, a good supper. I had again, as during all my journey from San Jose, to sleep on the earth and to have the stars for bed canopy,” he wrote. [Don Pedro Lake web site] 8 x 11". (Potter Collection) Date: c1854 Location: California HWAC# 58110