236 ACCESSIONS. Letter. Nesmith to Maury, Washington, D. C., April 3, 1862, re- lating to war matters. Letter. Brigadier General Alvord, Fort Vancouver, Feb. 15, 1864, to Colonel Maury, on political and war matters. Letter. Lieut. J. A. Waymire to Colonel Maury, Walla Walla, Feb. 17, 1863, relating to military matters. Telegram. R. C. Drumm, Assistant Adjutant General, Depart- ment of Pacific, San Francisco. March 1, 1864, to Col. R. F. Maury. Letter. Capt. Geo. E. Pickett to Colonel Maury, Feb* 13, 1861. (The last seven documents donated by Col. R. F. Maury, Jacksonville, Oregon.) Letter. A. McDonald to Napoleon McGillivray, May 4, 1879. Letter. Geo. B. Roberts to Napoleon McGillivray, Nov. 21, 1878. Sixty-five bill heads, receipts, orders, etc., connected with the busi- ness of King & Kittredge, merchants in Portland, and Wm. M. King, 1849-1854. Sixty-two letters to Col. Wm. M. King relating to early business and political life in Portland prior to 1855. Thirteen letters, contracts, etc., relating to business matters in which Col. Wm. M. King was engaged in New York State between the years 1835 and 1847. Commissions issued to Wm. M. King by the Governor of New York in 1835 and 1837 as major and colonel of the State militia. Circular, "Oregon and California," issued at Independence, Mo., Feb. 15, 1847, by Geo. W. Buchanan, postmaster, also a letter by the same, dated March 25, 1847, sent to Col. Wm. M. King, then in New York. Proclamation of Governor Joseph Lane calling special session of the legislature, dated April 6, 1850. (Donated by the family of Col. King through his son, James W. King, Portland.) Statement by Andrew J. Laws, who is believed to have fired the first gun on the part of the whites in the Yakima Indian war of 1855-56. Articles of agreement between Capt. John A. Sutter, Lewis San- ders, and William Muldrow, about his property in Sacramento, dated Feb. 24, 1854. Notice relating to "Express Matter to and from the Outside," dated Nome, Dec. 12, 1900. Correspondence, scrapbooks, letterbooks, etc., of Governor Addison C. Gibbs, war governor of Oregon, 1862-1866, numbering ten volumes; and in addition about 3,000 pages of testimony before United States Court, District of Oregon, relating to the final settlement of title in the Caruthers land claim, City of Portland. (Donated by Mrs. Mar- garet W. Gibbs.)
Page:Oregon Historical Quarterly vol. 6.djvu/242
This page needs to be proofread.
236
F. G. Young.
236
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Oregon_Historical_Quarterly_vol._6.djvu/page242-1024px-Oregon_Historical_Quarterly_vol._6.djvu.jpg)