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Title: Thomas Gilman Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1853-1907
Box Number: 353
Creator:
Gilman, Thomas, 1830-1911
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
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[Identification of item], Thomas Gilman Papers, California State Library.
Gilman, Thomas, 1830-1911
Pioneers--California
Afro-Americans--California
Letters, bills of sale, poll tax, receipts, subpoena, leases.
Thomas Gilman was born about 1830 in Tennessee and had moved to Tuolumne County, California by 1850. He is listed as a miner
in the 1852 California census. He bought his freedom in 1853 and worked as a farmer in Shaw's Flat in 1892. He died in 1911
and is buried in Shaw's Flat.