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Placerville,CA - Placer County - January 15, 1869 - Placerville Ephemera :

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Placerville,CA - Placer County - January 15, 1869 - Placerville Ephemera :
Lot of two items: 1) Warrant in Bankruptcy; January 15, 1869; District of California. Measures 8" x 10”, tri-folded with a 1” tear in the upper right corner and small tear on the top. A piece of paper measuring 7" x 1.75” is pasted just below the center of the sheet with a list of typed names and amounts due. On the reverse is the name of the addressee, Thomas Frazeir [sic], a red three-cent stamp (canceled) and a postmark, “January 16 San Francisco”. Chas. W. Rand is the issuing marshall. Notification mailed by the Office of the Marshall for the District of California to Thomas Frazeir [sic] of Placerville informing him of the meeting of the bankruptcy court in San Francisco on February 19, 1869 presided over by Samuel J. Clark Jr. The proceeding is against the estate of Hiland S. Hulbard. According to Ancestory.com, Hiland and Mason O. Hulburd were brothers, born in Vermont, went to St. Lawrence County, New York, then Hiland settled in Rochester, Racine Cty, Wisconsin. Both brothers traveled to California in 1850, with Hiland’s wife and four children joining him later in Placerville, CA. There were twenty-seven creditors for a total of $17,138.73. On this document, Mason is a creditor for $8000 to Hiland and is living in Austin, NV. There is a gravestone located in Rochester, New York that shows Mason O. Hulbund died in 1900 [Ref boards.ancestry.com/surnames.hulburd/4/mb.ashx and usgwarchives.org/wi/cemetery/racine-rochestertwp-rochester02.html]. 2) An engraved book plate with view of “Placer Ville” subtitled “Hang Town,” shows a small encampment with tents and a few permanent structures. There are tree stumps in the foreground and sparse trees on the hills behind. Placerville was called “Hangtown” from 1849-54. "G.V. Cooper Del."; "On Stone by J. Cameron" is a plate from Letts's "Pictorial View of California". The book was reviewed as follows: “George V. Cooper, Lett’s traveling companion and New York artist, drew the illustrations that embellish this work. His scenes, reproduced as forty-eight tinted lithographs, document the journey across Panama, San Francisco, Sacramento, life in the mines, and Central America. Cooper again drew all the illustrations for A Pictorial View. The appearance of this illustrated work, however, did not impress the editors of the San Francisco Alta California. On June 30, 1852, the Alta wrote that, from the house of Cooke & LeCount: “We have received a copy of a new `California Book,’...full of spiritless plates and contains the usual quantity of incidents in the life of a gold adventurer, all of the usual quality” [Ref: www.liveauctioneers.com].