Henry Delano Fitch conflict-would like to hear from locals & descend
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Re: Henry Delano Fitch conflict-would like to hear from locals & descend
| Scrapma1 (View posts) | Posted: 20 Jun 2009 1:15AM GMT |
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Bancroft Hubert Howe, History of California vol. IV, pgs. 706, 707. Ogden, Adele, "Captain Henry Fitch, San Diego Merchant, 1825-1849", in The Journal of San Diego History, Fall, 1981, pg.s 238. 239. (Miller, Ronald Lee, Henry Delano Fitch: A Yankee Trader in California: 1826-1849 (Dissertation, History, Univ. of Southern California, 1972), pgs. 3, 6, 7, 9.
[2]Ibid., pgs. 3, 8, 9. Fitch family tradition maintains that H.D. Fitch sailed to the Pacific Coast in a Bryant and Sturgis ship in 1822, major Boston hide traders in California from 1829 to 1840. That tradition also maintains that Beriah Fitch later bought Henry a ship to sail to the Pacific for trading. All this may have preceded his association with Virmond.
These all reference Capt. H. D. Fitch as born Nantucket, MA on 7 May 1798. I think would the correct. date and place of his birth. Read more at ourhealdsburg.com Don Arata
[2]Ibid., pgs. 3, 8, 9. Fitch family tradition maintains that H.D. Fitch sailed to the Pacific Coast in a Bryant and Sturgis ship in 1822, major Boston hide traders in California from 1829 to 1840. That tradition also maintains that Beriah Fitch later bought Henry a ship to sail to the Pacific for trading. All this may have preceded his association with Virmond.
These all reference Capt. H. D. Fitch as born Nantucket, MA on 7 May 1798. I think would the correct. date and place of his birth. Read more at ourhealdsburg.com Don Arata