Description
Eight pieces, 1849-1850, collection of receipts and documents: Handwritten lists of pieces shipped from Salem, Mass., July 9, 1849, to California on the ship Thomas Perkins, for M. Brown; A note for $250.00 “The Salem & California Mining and Trading Expedition, Charles E. Brown one share of the Company.”; Merchandise shipped in quantities to California in 1949; Official U.S. document declaring Charles Erastus Brown was a seaman entitled “An Act for the Relief and Protection of American Seamen” and a “Citizen of the United States of America”; Shipping document for insuring Gold Dust to Salem, Ma. from Sacramento City, Oct 1850; Document shipping two packages of Gold Dust – from Sacramento City, March 25, 1850 to Salem, valued at Four Hundred and Ninety Six Dollars, to Salem, Mass.
$1,000-2,000
