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4. Ibid., p. 17.

5. "Jacob Henry Bachman goes along from here," wrote Victor Audubon from New York to Maria Bachman in Charleston on January 28, 1849. Letter in The Charleston Museum, South Carolina. Since the publication of the first installment of the Bachman diary, a copy of the agreement signed by the members of Audubon's California Com- pany has been located by Mr. Lindley Eberstadt, of New York City.

6. "Great Register of Calaveras County. 1872-73" (photostatic copy of MS, in Ban- croft Library, Berkeley, California).

7. Recollections of Hon. George Cosgrave, of Fresno, California; Mrs. Hannah C. Riffe, of San Francisco; Miss Effie E. Johnston and Mrs. Johannah Nuland, of San Andreas; and Mr. John H. Tone, of Stockton; and scrapbook of newspaper clippings belonging to Hon. J. A. Smith, of San Andreas, California.

8. See Bachman's entry for February 10, 1850.

9. On Highway 49, five miles from San Andreas on the road to Angel's Camp.

10. The location notice in the Calaveras County Records is dated September 13, 1857.

11. When John N. Tone visited Bachman about 1877 Bachman told him he had a mine that "was going to be a wonder."

12. Bachman, op. cit., contains numerous references to family deaths from tubercu-

13. Van Nostrand, op. cit., pp. 306, 307.

14. Ibid., p. 306.

losis including both the daughters who married John James Audubon's sons.

15. Simmons, Hutchinson and Company were commercial merchants and exchange brokers on Clay Street Wharf. Captain Bezer Simmons, a native of Vermont, master of the Magnolia, came to California in 1843 and was elected a member of the Town Council of San Francisco in 1849. He died in 1850. Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California (San Francisco, 1886), X, 720.

16. Robert Irvine is listed as the proprietor of the Irving House, between Front and Davis Streets, in Lecount & Strong's City Directory of San Francisco, for 18 $4.

17. Probably this was the German Coffee Saloon, 152 Clay Street, A. Kimmer, pro- prietor. Lecount & Strong, op. cit.

18. Caleb Lyon was born in Lyonsdale, New York, December 7, 1822, and died near Rossville, Staten Island, New York, September 8, 1875. He was assistant-secretary of the constitutional convention held at Monterey in September 1849; while there he is said to have designed the state seal of California. Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet. The Annals of San Fraiicisco. . . (New York, 1855), p. 805.

19. Van Nostrand, op. cit.., p. 307.

20. Ibid., p. 305.

21. Loc cit.

22. McLean's Ferry was on the Stanislaus River at the point where Coyote Creek joins the Stanislaus, according to J. D. Borthwick, Three Years in California (Edinburgh and London, 1857), P- 35^. McLean, Jeffry & Company owned five hundred yards of land on the banks of the Stanislaus "beginning at a large oak tree opposite Jackass Gulch and running up the river to the first fall." "Miscellaneous Records" (Calaveras County Court House, San Andreas), p. 62. Edna-Bryant Buckbee, Days of Angel's Camp (Angel's Camp: Calaveras Californian [1932]), p. 78, locates McLean's Ferry across the Stanislaus near the mouth of Indian Gulch, just below what was later known as Robin- son's Ferry.

23. Van Nostrand, op. cit., pp. 307-8.

24. Ibid., pp. 306-7.

25. For a discussion of the trouble between the Mexican and American miners at