1850 Boone Co. MO Gold Rush Emigrants


BOONE COUNTY CALIFORNIANS
From the Columbia Missouri Statesman
Columbia, Missouri
March 8, 1850

We are endeavoring to prepare a full list in alphabetical order of the emigrants who will go to California 
from Boone County this spring. As yet the list is incomplete, and we would esteem it a favor were our friends 
to aid us in supplying the deficiencies. Such as are not reported in the list now published will please call 
either at our office, or at Crow & Jackman’s Rocheport, or at Sidney Maupin’s, Buena Vista, and leave their 
own names and those of their messes and neighbors.

A.

H C Anderson
James Austin Dr. 
John M Angel 
John Armstrong  
  
B. 
Samuel W Berry 
Mac Brink 
William T Berry 
Thomas Barns 
Benjamin Barns 
Hubbard Barns 
George Bradford 
James Boyce 
Stephen Bedford Jr 
W C Bugg 
Dr. James H Bennett 
George Bright 
R E Bondurant 
William H Booker
Jessee Bugg 
Franklin Burnett 
John M Black 
Madison Bradley 
Dr. J L Buster
Lee Burruss 
Nimrod Bishop 
John Barkwell 
Dr. John Baley 
Robert Baley 
William Breyman 
Joseph G Berry 
John Bysfield 
William Beazley 
Jefferson Bentley 
Elijah Brink 
Lawrence Bass 
Albert Barnett 
John Booth 
Peter Booth 
Carr Booth 
James Benedict 
Greenbery Baker 
L G Berry  

C. 
T H Cox 
Montgomery Cowden 
Richard Carter 
W Carter
Mac Culbert 
John Carlisle 
William Clarkson 
John Clarkson 
James T Connerly
Sanford Connerly 
Thomas Caldwell 
Nelson Carter 
Viley Collins 
Ogel Campbell
Charles Campbell 
William Campbell 
Merit Cave 
Dudley Clark 
Franklin Clark
William Carpenter 
Thomas Chandler 
...... Chapman 
A J Challass
Milton Crews
...... Clatweller 
Samuel Caldwell 
James Caldwell
 
D. 
John Dickinson 
...... Dooley 
Alex Duncan 
Martin Duncan 
J M Doneghee 
James M Downey  

E. 
James Eastin 
Green Edwards 
Moss Easley 
William Evans
 
F. 
James Fulkerson 
Andrew Fenton 
W H Fawcett 
Thomas Farthing 
John Fortner 
Wary Fortner 
Charles Finley 
Columbus Finley 
Sherrad Faddis 
Wiley Ferguson  

G. 
James Grant 
John M Gordon 
William J Gordon 
Henry Gatewood 
Odon Guitar 
Rueben Gosling 
Robert Galloway 
James Gentry 
Sidney Gentry
Joseph Graves  

H. 
Thomas Hulen 
David Hulen 
William Hulen 
James Hulen
B B Hunter 
Levi Hern 
S T Hart 
Cicero Houston 
John Hall 
George Hersh 
Dr. Thomas
J Hardin 
James Hamilton 
Staunton Hume 
L B Hunt 
Durret Hubbard 
John Hubbard
William Hickam 
John Hadden 
James Hern 
Harrison Hawkins 
J Harvey Hill 
Birch Hunt 
Hensly Hudson 
John Harris 
John Hopper 
Sidney Hopper 
Thomas Hancock 
Rice Hern 
Madison Hern 
George Hickam 
William Holmes 
M N Heaston 
George Hubbard
Ambrose Hulen  

J. 
Thomas Jackson 
Slocumb Jackson 
James Jones 
Thomas Jones 
Harrison Jones 
Greenberry Johnson  

K. 
W D Kelso 
George W Kimbrough Sr 
George W Kimbrough Jr 
Robert Kimbrough 
John Kimbrough 
John W Kimbrough 
Alex Keene 
Thomas Keene
Charles King 
Henry Kite 
Richard Keone  

L. 
Claiborn F Laforce 
Richard H Lawson 
John Lampton
Joshua (Cap) Lampton 
Richard Leonard 
Ambrose Lythe 
Jacob Langston 
George Langston 
William Laforce 
James Langston 
James Lowry 
Franklin Lowry 
Perry Lynes 
Slater Lenoir 
M J Lamme 
James Little 
Benjamin Lane 
R Lowry 
John Lynch
Kirtley Lynch  

M. 
Isaac B Monday 
Sidney Maupin 
Cornelius Maupin 
Job Marsh 
Orvil McCready 
Ed McCutchen 
B McCalister 
William McClintock 
...... McMickle 
Joseph McDaniel 
John Martin 
Robert Martin 
Tyre Martin 
Nathan Martin Jr 
James Melloway 
Franklin Melloway 
Wallace Maxwell 
...... McGowen 
Thomas C Maupin and family 
...... Mead 
Ab Marsh 
Jeptha Marsh 
David McQuitty Jr 
David McQuitty Sr 
David McBride 
William Monroe
 
N. 
B F Nichols 
Samuel Northcutt 
Elvin J Nichols 
Amos Nichols 
George Nelson 
John Northcutt 
Elman Nash 
William Norris  

O. 
B F Orear 
William Orear 
J Belt Orear 
Robert Orear
 
P. 
Young A Purcell 
Hiram Philips Jr 
Augustine Philips
James Pigg 
Thomas Parker 
Prather Parker 
Thomas Parker 
Thomas C Philips 
Thomas Palmer 
John G Provines 
Robert R Provines 
Josiah Parker 
Henry Parsons 
Bloomfield Philips 
Dr. W C Philips 
Mitchel Pulliam 
William Pulliam 
James B Persinger
Stephen Pettis 
Quincy Pitcher 
J C Payne Dr. 
James H Parker
 
R. 
Elcanah C Reed 
...... Redderford 
...... Redderford
John P Royall 
Orace Ridgway 
Dr. Alonzo Richardson 
James Richardson Jr 
David Richardson 
Wesley Rice 
John Rocheford 
Thomas Rocheford 
F T Russell 
John M Robards 
Thomas Roleson 
Thomas Roberts 
Finley Roberts 
John Reed 
James Ryan
William Ryan 
W Riley 
John Ridgway 
Elijah Rogers 
William Reyburn 
James Riggs
Zadoc Riggs 
John Riggs 
Samuel Rowland 
Thomas Rowland 
W W Rowland 
G W Roland
John Rowland 
W F Roberts 
Charles T Reed  

S. 
Alex Schooler 
Wharton Schooler 
Rice Schooler 
J Sprinkle
Caleb S Stone 
Dr. T R H Smith 
Job Slocumb 
Robert C Slocumb 
...... Shackleford
...... Spiers 
James Starke 
Charles Starke 
John Smith 
James Smith 
Alfred Slack
Philip J Selt 
Brown Searcy 
Samuel Spence 
B R M Spence 
W R Spence 
James Smith
John Stephens 
J H Stephens 
W Smith 
W South 
Newman Suttle 
Varner Skinner 
Thomas Short 
Rice Short 
Franklin Seymour  

T. 
James B Tucker 
Jefferson Turner 
Thomas Turner 
Samuel Tuttle 
R C Threlkeld 
John Threlkeld 
G Turner 
...... Tucker 
Thomas S Tuttle
Win Tuttle 
Dr. E C Taylor 
Abram N Turner 
Richard Turker 
Mordica Turner 
J R Tiffee 
Jessee Turner 
James Turner 
Richard W Turner
 
V. 
William H Victor 
J D Vanhorn 
John Vanlandingham
 
W.
Harvey Wright
A B Weldon
Dudley Wainscott
James Wainscott  
Alfred Wainscott
John Warnock
William E Wilson
H H Wilkerson
George S Waters
R J Wade
Allen White
Wesley Wright
W Wright
Joseph Wright
William White
John Wade
John J Weir
James Wilcoxon
Hern Williams
Peter J Wright
Alex Wright
R P Waters
William Wells
Sampson Wilhite
James M Wilhite
William Wirt
James Wirt
William Wiggam
George Woodson
Joseph Waters
William Waters
William Wade
L Withers
Walter W Wilson
William Williams
John E Willis

Whole number of emigrants whose names are published above---353.

NEWS TO CALIFORNIANS

We propose furnishing news from Missouri to the miners in California.  Our ability to do so has been 
demonstrated, and this too during a period of great embarrassment and difficulty in mail transportation.  
These difficulties, heretofore occasioning delays and failures of the California mails, are now vanishing. 
Agents have been put upon the line between New York and Chagres to see that mail matter goes forward; and 
doubtless, the same regulation will exist in a short time between New Orleans and Chagres. The connection 
then will be unbroken and reliable. The evils complained of at the Isthmus are also  effectually remedied.  
Capt. McLean, U.S. Mail Agent for the Pacific mail service, has announced that henceforward there will 
neither be obstructions nor delays in the transmission of the mail across the Isthmus.  Mail service for 
the interior of California is also in process of improvement. Hence news papers mailed her for subscribers 
at San Francisco, Sacramento City, Stockton, San Jose, Coloma and other points, whether on the coast or in 
the interior, may be expected to reach their destination with reasonable certainty.

What Missourian, and especially what resident of Boone or the counties adjacent, two thousand miles away 
delving for gold in the valley of the Sacramento or the San Joaquin, can estimate the value of a newspaper 
received weekly from home?  
Friends write but seldom while the paper is mailed to them weekly.  Another important consideration is, 
that even when friends do write they cannot if they would give the intelligence a paper contains.  Single 
letters cost 40 cents postage each, while the paper containing more news than twenty letters will coast but 
three or four cents.
That the Statesman reached California during the past year, and with reasonable regularity, is abundantly 
shown by Mr. Russell’s letter published last week.  
No fears need be entertained on that point.  Many who propose emigrating this spring have already sent in 
their names.
Those who leave families behind them have ordered two copies---one for their families at home and one for 
themselves in the mines; for remember, we will give news from California as well as to California.
 
We suggest to out-going emigrants that one copy of the paper to each mess, although infinitely better than 
none, is not the best arrangement.  
In nine cases out of ten messes are disbanded on reaching the mines and the members scatter all over the 
country.  Each man therefore who wants the news had best make sure work of it by subscribing for it “
on his own book,” A copy to each man---that’s the doctrine!

California emigrants throughout the State, who wish to hear from home every week, are invited to send in 
their names to us, or to either of our agents in the prospective counties, stating the post office in 
California to which they desire their papers sent.  
Other citizens remaining at home, and wishing to hear the latest news from California and all other 
quarters, are also invited to become subscribers, for a “good time is coming.”

(I wonder if this article was written so much for the California Gold Miners as for the sale of their 
newspaper....)

To Californians----John S. Jones, of Georgetown, Mo., gives notice that he will furnish provisions and 
ammunitions to eighty teamsters, for their services across the land route by Fort Hall, to California, and 
give them one month’s provision after they are discharged in the gold diggings; They are to be 
discharged as soon as they get there.  
Their services to commence on the 25th of April, or sooner if the grass will permit.

ARMS FOR THE CALIFORNIANS

   On the 14th March 1849, the Secretary of War caused to be published the following notice, which is 
   of interest to California emigrants:

War Department, March 14, 1849
   The following regulations will govern in issuing arms and ammunition, under the resolution of Congress, 
   approved March 2, 1849:
1. Each applicant must send to the War Department an affidavit that it is his bona fide intention to 
   emigrate to Oregon, or California, or New Mexico, as the case may be, and must state distinctly what 
   arms and ammunition he requires.
2. On receipt of an application and affidavit, as above stated, a sufficient supply of the arms and 
   ammunition designated by him, to arm and equip each applicant, may be delivered to him or his order, 
   on payment of the cost thereof; provided the Government has such arms, and the same can be sold 
   without detriment to the public service; and if not, then the applicant may receive such other arms 
   and ammunition as he shall select, on the same conditions.
3. Arms and ammunition, furnished as above, will be delivered to each applicant, or to his authorized 
   agent, at the nearest and most convenient  arsenal where the arms may be.  
   The place of delivery desired by the applicant, should be designated.
   These regulations, we presume, are still in force.  At all events we have no knowledge of their repeal.  
   Last spring Maj. Wm. Bell, the officer in command at the Arsenal near St. Louis, was authorized to 
   issue arms and ammunition, the above requirements being first complied with by the applicant.  We 
   suppose the same officer has the same authority now.


Charlotte Curlee Ramsey
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