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From: "Martha" <>
Subject: Re: Goin West: BOZEMAN/GREEN/HITCHCOCK
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:37:50 -0800

Both you and the Darlings are working John Green and Isaac Hitchcock.

Book 1
BOZEMAN: none listed
GREEN, John Duncan: Robert GREEN, Jesse GREENE, and "Old Man" Jesse GREENE,
Talbot H GREENE are listed
HITCHCOCK, Isaac: b. ca. 1790. A member of the 1844 STEVENS party that
took wagons to California for the first time. he had a wagon and his
daughter, Isabella or Elizabeth and her children: Isaac, Margaret, Mary and
Tedra ? HITCHCOCK had some Rocky Mountain experience and claimed to have
been with the earlier SUBLETTE trading expeditions. HITCHCOCK, Isabella
PATTERSON and the kids were living in Santa Cruz in later 1845. HITCHCOCK
died in 1855
Sources: The Opening of the California Trail. George R. Stewart.
University of California Press, 1953 and Old Greenwood, The Story of Caleb
Greenwood: Trapper, pathfinder and early Pioneer. Charles kelly and Dale
L. Morgan. Talisman press, Georgetown, CA 1965

Book 2
BOZEMAN: none listed
GREEN, John Duncan: Only Green is M.A. Green born in MO
HITCHCOCK, Isaac: Listed are HITCHCOCK ? Went overland to CA in 1848.
Stepfather of Rufus BURROWS and HITCHCOCK, SARA, born in Ohio 1859. I will
send full citation if you want these two.

-----Original Message-----
From: High Mountain Bear <>
To: Martha <>
Date: Thursday, December 31, 1998 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: Goin West Lookup Offer

>Hi Martha,
>
>Thank you very much for your kind offer!
>Here are the three of my family names I
>am interested in.
>
>John Duncan GREEN
>Isaac HITCHCOCK
>BOZEMAN
>
>Del Black
>In the beautiful Tehachapi
>Mountains of California
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martha <>
>To: <>
>Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 2:33 PM
>Subject: Goin West Lookup Offer
>
>
>>I have for the next two weeks volumes 1 and 2 of Goin' West by Richard
>>Nelson. I will look up three names per request. Here is the citation:
>>
>>Goin' West: A record of some who went west 1830-1880
>>Richard and Alice Nelson
>>Box 4575
>>Oceanside, CA 92054
>>c1987
>>
>>each entry cites a source, and the author recommends that you also consult
>>that source because in many cases there are additional references to the
>>individual they did not include in Goin' West because of space
limitations.
>>
>>If you want to get the book yourself, I got it through ILL at my library.
>>This copy came from Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence MO
>>
>>Martha
>>near Seattle
>>
>
>

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