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Sutter's Fort Characters



Children
(Listed by last name)

Bonney, Benjamin Franklin
Gregson, Ann E.
Griffith, Nancy C.
Kelsey, Martha Ann
McDowell, Maggie A.
Murphy, Virginia E. Reed
Norris, Mary
Norris, William H.
Reed, Martha F. "Patty"
York, David
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York, William Enoch
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Women
(Listed by first name; husband's first name in parentheses)

Anna Hughes Marshall Smith (James)
Ann Martin Murphy (James)
Carmella Knight
Caroline Matilda Allen Ritchie
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Christina Forster Patterson
Elizabeth Ann Yount
Elizabeth Jane "Jennie" Cloud Baiz Wimmer (Peter)
Elizabeth Marshall Gregson (James)
Elizabeth McPherson Martin (Julius)
Elizabeth Patton Elliot
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
  • Hansen, Harvey J.; Wild oats in Eden : Sonoma County in the 19th century
    SPE 979.418 H249 1962 CAL
  • History of Napa and Lake Counties, California : comprising their geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber ... together with a full and particulqar record of the Mexican Grants ... and biographical sketches of early settlers and representative men : separate reprinting of the History of Lake County with addendum and index
    SPE 979.417 H673 1974 CAL
  • Warner, Barbara R.; The men of the California Bear Flag Revolt and their heritage
    SPE 979.403 W279 1996 CAL
Elizabeth R. Griffith
Elizabeth Schallenberger Townsend
Ellen Murphy Townsend(??) Weber
Epifania Vallejo
Francisca Vallejo
Isabella Hitchcock Patterson
  • Kelly, Charles; Old Greenwood : the story of Caleb Greenwood : trapper, pathfinder, and early pioneer
    SPE 978 G8162zk 1965 CAL
  • Schallenberger, Moses; The opening of the California Trail : the story of the Stevens Party from the reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger as set down for H. H. Bancroft about 1885
    SPE 978 S298 1953 CAL
Jane Kizzie Norris
Lizzie Sumner Davis (George)
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Lucinda Hudson York
  • Ancestry Plus (Library Database)
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
  • Sacramento Room Pamphlet File (look under Sutter's Fort Characters)
  • Warner, Barbara R.; The men of the California Bear Flag Revolt and their heritage
    SPE 979.403 W279 1996 CAL
Luzena Stanley Wilson
Margaret Frances kelsey Buzzell
  • Ancestry Plus (Library Database)
Margaret Pyles McDowell (James)
Maria de Jesus Estudillo Davis (Wm. Heath)
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
  • Davis, William Heath; Seventy–five years in California : recollections by one who visited these shores in 1831, and again in 1833, and except when absent on business was a resident from 1838 until the end of a long life in 1909
    SPE 979.403 D265 1967 CAL
  • Lewis, Donovan; Pioneers of California
    SPE 979.403 L673 1993 CAL, pp. 210–217 (portrait)
  • Rolle, Andrew F.; An American in California : the biography of William Heath Davis, 1822–1909
    SPE 979.403 D265zr 1956 CAL
Mary M. Murphy Covillaud (Charles)
Nancy Roberts Kelsey
Rebecca Josephine Kelsey Fowler [m. 1843] Cook [Grove m. 1844] Grattan [m. 1845]
Sarah Armstrong Montgomery Green Wallis
Sarah Graves Fosdick Ritchie Spears
Sarah Ide Healy
  • Ide, Simeon; A biographical sketch of the life of William B. Ide : with a minute and interesting account of one of the largest emigrating companies ... from the East to the Pacific coast, and ... account of "the virtual conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear flag part," as given by its leader, the late Hon. William Brown Ide ...
    SPE 979.403 I19 1880 CAL VAU
  • Lewis, Donovan; Pioneers of California
    SPE 979.403 L673 1993 CAL, p. 254
Susan G. Haskell Ide (Wm. Brown)
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
  • Ide, Simeon; A biographical sketch of the life of William B. Ide : with a minute and interesting account of one of the largest emigrating companies ... from the East to the Pacific coast, and ... account of "the virtual conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear flag part," as given by its leader, the late Hon. William Brown Ide ...
    SPE 979.403 I19 1880 CAL VAU
  • Lewis, Donovan; Pioneers of California
    SPE 979.403 L673 1993 CAL, pp. 253, 260

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Men
(Listed by last name)

Abrego, José
(not at the fort)
Acres, Hiram
Adams, David L.
Adler, Lewis
(not at fort)
Alexander, Cyrus
(trapper)
Alford, Landy
Allgeier (Altgeier), Nicholaus
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
  • Lewis, Donovan; Pioneers of California
    SPE 979.403 L673 1993 CAL, p. 302
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
  • [Riley's Map], Sacramento Valley from the American River to Butte Creek.
    Sacramento Room—Vault Maps Drawer 2.
Anderson, Walter
Andrews, Augustus
Anselin, Alfred
Anzar, José
Archambeau, Auguste
Baldridge (Baldredge), William
Barnett, Elias
Beckwourth, James Pierson
Bee, Henry Jubilee
Bell, Alexander
Benitz, William
Bennett, Vardamon
Bidwell, John
Bigler, Henry W.
Bird, David
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Black, James
Black, Joseph
Boggs, William Montgomery
  • Associated Veterans of the Mexican War; History of the fiftieth anniversary of the taking possession of California and raising of the American flag at Monterey, Cal., by Commodore John Drake Sloat, U.S.N., July 7th, 1846 : . . .
    SPE 979.4 A849 1896 CAL
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
Bolan, A. J.
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Bollon, José Maria
Bonney, Jarvis
Brannan, Samuel
Bray, Edmund
Breen, John (Donner Party)
Breen, Patrick (Donner Party)
Bristow, Elijah
Brown, James S.
Brown, John Henry
Bruheim, Adolf
Buzzell, Joseph Willard
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Carson, Christopher "Kit"
Carson, Moses
Castro, José
Chamberlain, John
Chana, Claude
Clyman, James
Coates, James C.
Cook, Grove C.
Coombs, Nathan (Nathaniel)
Covillaud, Charles
Davis, George
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Davis, William Heath
  • Davis, William Heath (Subject Search)
  • Davis, William Heath; Seventy–five years in California : recollections by one who visited these shores in 1831, and again in 1833, and except when absent on business was a resident from 1838 until the end of a long life in 1909
    SPE 979.403 D265 1967 CAL
  • Lewis, Donovan; Pioneers of California
    SPE 979.403 L673 1993 CAL, pp. 20, 60, 105, 134–145 (portrait), 290, 314, 367, 414, 416, 464
  • Rolle, Andrew F.; An American in California : the biography of William Heath Davis, 1822–1909
    SPE 979.403 D265zr 1956 CAL
Dutton, David Dewey
Coombs, Nathan (Nathaniel)
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
  • Hansen, Harvey J.; Wild oats in Eden : Sonoma County in the 19th century
    SPE 979.418 H249 1962 CAL
  • History of Napa and Lake Counties, California : comprising their geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber ... together with a full and particulqar record of the Mexican Grants ... and biographical sketches of early settlers and representative men : separate reprinting of the History of Lake County with addendum and index
    SPE 979.417 H673 1974 CAL
  • Warner, Barbara R.; The men of the California Bear Flag Revolt and their heritage
    SPE 979.403 W279 1996 CAL
Fallon, William O.
Farwell, Edward
Flomboy, John
Flugge, Charles William
Fowler, William Jr.
Frémont, John Charles
González, Rafael
Gordon, William
Green, Jacob
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Greenwood, Britain (Britton)
Greenwood, Caleb
  • Greenwood, Caleb (Subject Search)
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
  • Hague, Harlan; The road to California : the search for a southern overland route, 1540–1848
    SPE 979 H147 1978 CAL
  • Lewis, Donovan; Pioneers of California
    SPE 979.403 L673 1993 CAL, pp. 49, 109, 118–119, 198–209, 212, 246, 254, 274, 354, 356, 397, 505
  • Schallenberger, Moses; The opening of the California Trail : the story of the Stevens Party from the reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger as set down for H. H. Bancroft about 1885
    SPE 978 S298 1953 CAL
Gregson, James
Griffith, James A.
Grigsby, John
Hardy, Thomas M.
Harlan, George
Hensley, Samuel J.
Hitchcock, Isaac
  • Kelly, Charles; Old Greenwood : the story of Caleb Greenwood : trapper, pathfinder, and early pioneer
    SPE 978 G8162zk 1965 CAL
  • Schallenberger, Moses; The opening of the California Trail : the story of the Stevens Party from the reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger as set down for H. H. Bancroft about 1885
    SPE 978 S298 1953 CAL
Hoover
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Huber, Henry
Hudson, William Smith
Ide, William Brown
  • Ide, William Brown (Subject Search)
  • California Historical Society Quarterly Index
    SPE PERIODICAL INDEX 1922–61
  • Ide, Simeon; A biographical sketch of the life of William B. Ide : with a minute and interesting account of one of the largest emigrating companies ... from the East to the Pacific coast, and ... account of "the virtual conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear flag part," as given by its leader, the late Hon. William Brown Ide ...
    SPE 979.403 I19 1880 CAL VAU
  • Lewis, Donovan; Pioneers of California
    SPE 979.403 L673 1993 CAL, pp. 60–61, 68, 212, 252–261, 274, 303–304, 315, 421
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Johnson, William
Jones, H. L.
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Jones, James H.
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Kelley, John H.
Kelsey, Benjamin
Kelsey, David
Kern, Edward Meyer
Keseberg, Louis
Keyser, Sebastian
Knight, William Henry
Kostromitinof, Peter
Kyburz, Samuel E.
Lamotte, Francois
Lard, Fielding
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Lassen, Peter
Leahy, Daniel
Leidesdorff, William A.
  • Leidesdorff, William A. (Subject Search)
  • Davis, William Heath; Seventy–five years in California : recollections by one who visited these shores in 1831, and again in 1833, and except when absent on business was a resident from 1838 until the end of a long life in 1909
    SPE 979.403 D265 1967 CAL
  • Lewis, Donovan; Pioneers of California
    SPE 979.403 L673 1993 CAL, pp. 55, 125–126, 294, 312–321 (portrait)
Markof (Markov), Aleksandr
Marsh, John
Marshall, Henry
Marshall, James Wilson
Martin, Dennis
Martin, Julius
McCoon, Perry
McDowell, James
McIntosh, Charles
McKay, Jean Baptiste Desportes
McMahan, Samuel Green
McMillan (McMullen)
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
McVicker, Henry
Merritt, Ezekiel
Minier
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Montgomery, Allen
Moon, William C.
Moore
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Murphy Sr., Martin
Nash, John H.
Neal, John
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Neal, Samuel
Norris, Leo
Northgrave, William
O'Farrell, Jasper
Ortega, José
  • New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept by John A. Sutter and his clerks of New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
    SPE f979.454 S967m 1939 SAC
Patterson, George
Perkey, J. D.
Reading, Pierson Barton
Reed, James Frazier (Donner Party)
Revere, Joseph Warren