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Diaries Archive
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Pirate Attack on the Bark, ‘Morning Star’
Posted on 2 April 2011 | No CommentsMy first cousin (six times removed), Major William Logie, had many interesting experiences in his life. One of the most interesting was being a passenger aboard the bark “Morning Star”... -
The Featherstone Diary
Posted on 2 April 2011 | No CommentsThomas Featherstone kept a personal diary most of his life. A faithful journal keeper, he documented his early life and the day-by-day events of traveling by ship trip from Liverpool... -
Gold Rush Diary of David Lewis Drew
Posted on 2 April 2011 | No CommentsMy 2nd great grandfather, David Lewis Drew, left his comfortable home in Plymouth, Massachusetts to make his fortune in California during the famous Gold Rush. His descendants are very fortunate... -
Commenced The Bible Tonight – David Drew Diary
Posted on 2 April 2011 | No CommentsDavid Lewis Drew kept a diary for the year 1856 detailing his life as a placer miner in what is now Calaveras County California. His original spellings have been left... -
Ground Did Not Pay Very Well – Today Only Got Ten Dollars. David Drew Diary
Posted on 2 April 2011 | No CommentsMarch 1856 found spring flowers blooming in Calaveras County. Reading the entries in David Lewis Drew’s diary, spring rain and high water from winter snow melt impacted his efforts to... -
Charly Dug Out A Dead Man Yesterday. David Drew Diary
Posted on 2 April 2011 | No CommentsApril 1856 started out with an adventure for David Lewis Drew and his gold mining partners in Calaveras County, California. The river was high from the continuing snow melting in... -
Commenced The New Testament Again Tonight – David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsMay 1856, did not produce much financial reward for David Lewis Drew and his partners in the Calaveras, California gold fields. He and his partners were still hoping that their... -
Wrote To Farther This Mail – David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsLife in the Calaveras County gold fields continued to sustain life but not be very profitable for David Lewis Drew in June 1856. Summer had arrived and it was hot.... -
The Columbia Ratification Meeting – David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsDavid Lewis Drew’s diary entries in July 1856 were brief. Apparently, he and his partners were not having much success in their quest for gold because he didn’t include a... -
Went To The Circus in Columbia – David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsDavid Lewis Drew’s quest for gold and a bright future continued to dwindle by August 1856. The hard labor by he and his partners was not rewarded with few golden...
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