![]() ![]() ![]() Wilson describes gold mining with his partners and how San Francisco was changing. He describes the weather, life aboard the ship, visits to Rio de Janeiro and Valpara so, and the formation of successive mining companies. George Pickering Wilson: Wilson's journal chronicles his voyage on the ship Areatus around Cape Horn to San Francisco.James Townsend (Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, September 10, 1830).(Held at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.) Hill papers, 1849-1857: Documenting his voyage to California on the Areatus, experiences in the gold fields, San Francisco and Sacramento. ![]() The following have written letters and journals regarding their voyage on the Ship Areatus. Text and illustrations by Charles Warren Haskell BookeĪbove list from: The Argonauts of California. Clark, Wm Hill, Sml Gibson, Win Murray, G. Smith, Levi Bigelow, Moses Gould, Otis Putney, J. Sargeant, M S Symonds, Natl Cheney, Paul Chesley, Sim Chace, Jas Hichman, J. Built in 1839, measured 538 tons, was abandoned at sea after being caught in a typhoon at Laguimanoc (Luzon, Philippines) "in sinking condition" on Jwhile returning from Singapore. James Whooley, master (or James Warner Woolsey.) 143 in company. From Boston: Bay State and California Mining CompanyĬaptain Whooley (aka James Warner Woolsey) PassageĪreatus (Bay State and California Mining Co.), from Boston April 4, 1849, 171 days to San Francisco, arriving September 22, 1849. ![]()
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