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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Accounts |
| Reference | MS OV 10, folder 5 |
| Library | California Historical Society |
| Collection | Jacob P Leesen Papers, 1836-1863 |
| Date | 1841-1850 |
| Description | Accounts documenting the business of early California merchant Jacob P Leese, and accounts for the brig Eveline, on which Leese travelled to China to engage in trade (1849); a signed account statement of John C Fremont for the United States Army (1847); accounts with Hudson's Bay Company (1841); and deeds and other legal documents for land holdings in San Francisco, Monterey, and Sonoma. |
| Document Type | Accounts, Correspondence, Business Records, Manuscript |
| Theme(s) | Trade and Commerce |
| Keywords | accounts, finance, business, contract, receipt, trade, commerce, merchandise, merchant, cargo, freight, shipping, ship, food, gold |
| Countries | USA; China |
| Places | California |
| Ports | San Francisco, USA; Monterey, USA; Hong Kong, China |
| Company | Hudson's Bay Company |
| Ships | Eveline |
| Additional Information |
Early California merchant Jacob Primer Leese was born in St Clairsville, Ohio, in 1809, and came to California in 1833 and again in 1834, engaging in trade in Los Angeles and later in Monterey. In 1836, Leese entered into a mercantile partnership with Monterey businessmen Nathan Spear and William Sturgis Hinckley, relocated to Yerba Buena (now San Francisco), and there opened a store. The partners ran a profitable business, trading merchandise for rancho products. Naturalized in 1837, Leese married Rosalia Vallejo, sister of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. In 1841, Leese sold his business interests to Hudson's Bay Company, and moved to his Sonoma ranch, still retaining extensive land holdings in Yerba Buena. Leese served as alcalde in Sonoma (1844-1845), and was one of the prisoners taken in the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt. Around 1849, he entered into a business partnership with Thomas Oliver Larkin in Monterey, traveling to China on the brig Eveline. Leese and his wife were also major land holders in Monterey County; among their claims was Rancho Sausal, deeded to Rosalia by her brother Mariano G Vallejo. Leese left California in 1865, returning to the state in 1885. He died in San Francisco in 1892. Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the California Historical Society's North Baker Research Library catalogue. |
| Copyright | California Historical Society |
