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 740 PIONEER REGISTER AND INDEX. 41. iv. 102, 105, 209, 249, 567. Stearns, McKinley, and Temple were his partners in this venture, and Paty a little later. In 41 he was grantee of the Sotoyomi rancho, iv. 674; v. 297, 358, later Healdsburg, which was put in charge of his agents, as he still lived at S. Diego, being much of the time at sea. Receptor at S.D. 45-6; made a survey of town lands; juez depaz 46-7, grantee of lands at S.F., being also meiit. in connection with various matters, iv. 345, 557, 620; v. 267, 317, 618-20, 659-60, 679. He died at S. Diego in 49, and was the last person buried on Presidio Hill. Capt. Fitch was one of the earliest, most prominent, and most popular of the early pioneers; straight forward in his dealings, generous in disposition, frank and cheerful in man ner, in physique a very tall man inclined to corpulency. Dana is the only man that has anything unfavorable to say of him, and it is hinted that D., a wild young sailor disposed to put on airs by reason of his education and high con nections, was once rather summarily ejected from Don Enrique s house, when he and his companions applied for grog. I have hundreds of the captain s business and personal letters in the collections of Vallejo and Cooper, besides an immense vol. of the Fitch, Doc. Hist. Cal., presented by his widow in 75. Dona Josefa born at S. D. 1810, and baptized as Maria Ant. Natalia Elijia Carrillo, being called Josefa later because her godmother forgot the names, and thought that one of them was Josefa! moved to the Healdsburg rancho soon after her husband s death, and was still living there in 80, dictating for my use in 75 a most interesting Narration, besides presenting the doc. cited above, including her marriage certificate and the captain s naturalization pa pers. There were 11 children, as follows: Henry E. b. 30, Fred. 32, Wm 34, Joseph 36, Josefa 37, John B. 39, Isabella ? 40, Charles 42, Michael 44, Maria Ant. Natalia 45, and Anita 48. The last two died in 50-4; Josefa became the wife of John Grant and a locally famous singer; Isabella married John Balash; Wm, in 75, had a vineyard on Russian River; John B. was a newspaper man, who visited my Library in 83. Fitch, 1847, mr of the Armalta. v. 576. F. (Worthington L.), 1847, Co. B, N.Y.Vol. (v. 499); d. S.F. 50. Fitzhugh (John W.), 1848, immig. whose widow lived at Snelling in 77. S. J. Pion. Fitzpatrick (John), 1836, Engl. on a Los Ang. list, age 40. F. (Thos), well-known trapper and guide; possibly came to Cal. before 40; guide of Bartleson party 41 and Fremont 44, but did not come to Cal. then. iii. 392; iv. 268, 437. Fitzsimmons (James), 1847, Co. G, N.Y.Vol. (v. 499). Flaco (Juan), see John Brown. Flandrew (J.B.), 1848, passp. from Hon. Planning (H.T.), 1845, nat. of N. Y. ; on the U.S. Portsmouth; later member of S. Joaq. pioneers, iv. 587. Fleet (Wm H.), 1847, lot at S.F. Fleetwood (Robert), 1847, Co. F, N.Y.Vol. (v. 499). Flemming (James), 1829, Irish jack-at-all-trades, age 40, working for Cooper at Mont. iii. 179; in 36 liv ing with Larkin, age 52! often named in records of 36-8. In 41-4 he appears in the Sonoma and Bodega regions. Fletcher, 1579, chaplain of Francis Drake s vessel, and author of a narrative of the voyage, i. 85 et seq. F. (Philander), 1847, Co. D, Morm. Bat. (v. 469); reenl. Fleury (Ernest de), 1848, the Baron de Lisle, a French traveller and officer in Mex. under Maxi milian; said to have visited Cal. in 48; died in N.Y. 67. Alta. Fling (Guy Freeman), 1826, nat. of Me, on the Courier 26-8. iii. 176. In 31 he came back from the Sandwich Islands to settle permanently, at the age of 34, getting a carta from Gov. Victoria, and in 32 joining the comp. extran- jera at Mont. iii. 221. From that time his name often appears on Larkin s books and other records. He worked at his trade as blacksmith at Mont., and in 36 at the Buenavista rancho, being then only 26 years old, ace. to the padron. In 40 he had a shop at Natividad, and is accredited by tradition with having refused to iron the foreign exiles, though John Chamberlain says this was not so, as Fling was absent at the time. iv. 28. I find no definite trace of him in 41-7, but he was prob. engaged in hunting, as he is said to have been with Geo. Yount in Napa Val., and to have spent much of his time among the Ind. He lived at Sonoma for some years; went to Napa about 50, and died in the county infirmary in 70, at the reputed age of 80 years.