San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 Papers, 1851-1852

Summary

Creators:

San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851

Abstract:

Include constitution, name book, minutes of meetings, accounts, and other records. Also police reports, statements and depositions in criminal cases, especially those involving James Stuart and John Jenkins. Some correspondence and clippings.

Extent:

Number of containers: 8 boxes, 1 volume, and 1 oversize folder

Language:

English

Background

Physical location:

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Related resources

Other descriptive data:

These papers, from the original Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection, begin with the official constitution of the Committee, June 8, 1851. The bulk of the collection is from June through Sept. 1851, with records of a more sporadic nature through November 1852. The papers include minutes of meetings, statements of witnesses, some correspondence, police reports, reports on examination of passenger ships coming from Australia, accounts, and other records, as well as clippings from various San Francisco newspapers. The chronological arrangement, day by day, of most of these papers follows, in the main, the work edited by Mary Floyd Williams entitled: Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 (Academy of Pacific Coast History. Publications, v. 4. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1919). An unbound copy of Miss Williams' book forms a part of the report, with pencilled notations giving folder number of documents.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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