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Guide to the Documentos para la historia de California, 1846-1847, and especially concerning the Battle of San Pascual: 1846-1876
BANC MSS C-B 79
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Collection Title: Documentos para la historia de California,
Date (inclusive): 1846-1847,
and especially concerning the Battle of San Pascual:
Date (inclusive): 1846-1876
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 79
Creator: Griffin, John S. (John Strother), 1816-1898
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 box and 2 oversize folders
Repository: The
Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence and papers of an army surgeon, relating to his participation in the Battle of San Pasqual, including medical
reports for the troops and correspondence with medical, military and naval acquaintances, some touching upon the effects of
the gold rush.
Languages Represented:
English
Access to originals is restricted. Use photocopy or microfilm only.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Documentos para la historia de California, 1846-1847, and especially concerning the Battle of San
Pascual: 1846-1876, BANC MSS C-B 79, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Although this collection of documents, gift of Dr. Griffin to H. H. Bancroft in 1876, covers the date span of 1846 to 1876,
it contains records mainly from the earlier period—medical reports for the troops and correspondence with medical, military
and naval acquaintances, and touches on the effects of the gold rush.
A calendar and a partial list of correspondents follow.
John Strother Griffin, assistant surgeon, came with General Kearny from New Mexico in 1846, and was present in the battles
of San Pascual, San Gabriel and the Mesa. He was stationed at San Diego and Los Angeles in charge of the military hospital,
visited the gold mines in 1849, became interested in Napa lands with Vallejo and Frisbie, and was later stationed at Benicia
until 1852. He went east in 1853, and after his resignation in 1854, returned to Los Angeles where he resided and practiced
medicine, dying in 1898.
Partial list of correspondents and/or signers of documents
Anselin, Alfred, d. 1853
no. 100-101, 104-105
Botello, Narciso, 1810-
no. 200-203
Breckenmayer, F.
no. 210-211
Campbell, John, ca. 1822-
no. 250-257
Clift, Robert
nos. 66-67, 70-71, 76-77
Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876
nos. 262-263, 270-271, 276-277
Deyerle, Charles P., d. 1853
no. 212-215
Easton, Langdon Cheves, 1814-1884
no. 142-145
Eversfield, Charles, d. 1873
no. 18-21
Fisher, L. W.
no. 266-267
Flaherty, Michel
no. 196-199
Foster, Stephen Clark, 1820-
no. 200-203
Fraser, James
no. 218-221
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885
no. 228-231
Griffin, John Strother, 1816-1898
nos. 4-5, 8-11, 22-23, 24-25, 38-41, 50-51, 60-61, 62-63, 72-73, 92-95, 96-97, 98-99, 112-115, 124-127, 130-131, 146-149, 232-235
Hammond, Richard Pindell, d. 1891
no. 258-259
Hancock, George
no. 280-282
Hancock, Henry
no. 288-290
Heiskell, Henry Lee, d. 1855
nos. 16, 90-91, 236-237
Hunter, Jesse D., 1804-1877
no. 74-75
Kearny, Stephen Watts, 1794-1848
no. 3
Lawson, Thomas, ca. 1781-1861
no. 272-273
Murray, Robert, 1822-
nos. 12-15, 84-87, 138-141, 165-168, 175-178, 278-279
Noble, Patrick, d. 1848
no. 108-111
Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883
no. 204-207
Pedrorena, Miguel de, ca. 1808-1850
no. 56-59
Perry, Alexander
no. 64-65
Pico, Pío, 1801-1894
no. 150-153
Preston, William, 1816-1887
no. 284
Rowan, Stephen Clegg, 1808-1890
no. 78-81
Salmon & Ellis, San Francisco
no. 226-227
Sanderson, George B.
nos. 26-27, 34-37, 42-45, 52-55
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891
nos. 116-119, 120-123, 134-137, 155-158
Smith, Andrew Jackson, 1815-1897
nos. 169-170, 192-195, 242-245
Stevenson, Jonathan Drake, 1800-1894
nos. 179-191
Summers, John Edward
nos. 248-249
Swords, Thomas, 1806-1886
nos. 46-49, 161-164, 171-174
Temple, Rafaela (Cota)
no. 238-241
Tripler, Charles Stuart, d. 1866
no. 246-247
Turner, George F., d. 1854
no. 222-225
Turner, Henry Smith, d. 1881
nos. 3, 6-7, 28-31
Vallejo & Frisbie
no. 216-217
Wheeler, George
no. 196-199