Fair copy transcript of a journal written by Henry H. Hyde, Jr. from February 2 to September 19, 1849. Copy signed and dated at end by George E. Hyde, Oct. 8th, 1873, Framingham, Mass.
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Journal of a voyage from Boston to California via Cape Horn, ship Lenore, with the Company called "The New England and Californian Trading and Mining Association" ..., 1849 February 2-September 19
Henry H. Hyde, Jr. was born in Framingham, Massachusetts around 1823. He married Mary Jane Hunt in Framingham on August 23, 1853 and worked as a carpenter. He died on May 18, 1867 in San Francisco at the age of 44 and is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Colma, California, with his wife Mary J. Tarbox and her second husband, Samuel Tarbox.
The New England and California Mining and Trading Association sailed from Boston, February 3, 1848 on the ship Lenore, with H.M. [or H.H.?] Greene as master and president, and 100 in the company. The ship arrived in San Francisco on July 5, then weighed anchor on July 8 and sailed for Benicia. The company then set out for the gold mines on August 23, 1849.
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