Scope and Contents
A collection of fifty-eight journals recording seventy-two years of Moses Little's life. He spent 1844-1848 aboard the whaler Arnolda, commanded by Captain D. U. Coffin out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1849, Little joined the Sagamore Mining and Trading Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, and traveled to California over the plains and Rockies to Sacramento, returning in 1851. Making a second trip to California in 1852 via the Isthmus to Panama City, he sailed on the Tennessee. He staked a claim in Sandy Gulch, Calaveras County, and returned to New York via Nicaragua in 1853. Except for his trips to Chicago in 1869 visiting the stockyards and 1893 for the World's Fair, the remaining journals concern Little's life in Hill, New Hampshire, where he ran a general store, and became interested in local politics.
Dates
- 1841-1916
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Existence and Location of Copies
Available on microfilm.
Conditions Governing Use
The Moses F. Little Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Extent
3.43 Linear Feet (58 volumes in 8 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Abstract
A collection of 58 journals recording 72 years of Moses Little's life. He spent 1844-1848 aboard the whaler Arnolda, commanded by Captain D. U. Coffin out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1849, Little joined the Sagamore Mining and Trading Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, and traveled to California, returning in 1851. Making a second trip to California in 1852 via the Isthmus to Panama City, he sailed on the Tennessee. He staked a claim in Sandy Gulch, Calaveras County, and returned to New York in 1853. Except for his trips to Chicago in 1869 visiting the stockyards and 1893 for the World's Fair, the remaining journals concern Little's life in Hill, New Hampshire, where he ran a general store and became interested in local politics.
Moses F. Little
Moses F. Little was born on August 31, 1823, in Boscawen, New Hampshire, and lived most of his life in the small town of Hill nearby. After graduating from an academy in Salisbury, New Hampshire, and receiving a certificate to teach in district schools, he spent the years 1844 to 1848 on a whaling voyage, and 1849 to 1853 mining for gold in California. Following his return to Hill, he became a shopkeeper, and served as town clerk and justice of the peace.
Processing Information
The information in this finding aid was derived from a description and list prepared by Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc.
- Account books -- United States
- Amethyst (Ship : 1800)
- Arnolda (Ship)
- Azores
- Bonin Islands (Japan)
- Brother Jonathan (Ship)
- Calaveras County (Calif.)
- California -- Description and travel
- Coffin, D. U.
- Commodore Preble (Ship)
- Congaree (Ship)
- Desdemona (Ship)
- Diaries -- United States
- Easter Island
- Elizabeth (Ship)
- General stores -- New Hampshire
- Gold miners -- California
- Gold mines and mining -- California
- Hawaii
- Hebrides (Scotland)
- Henry (Ship : 1848-1859)
- Hill (N.H.)
- John Adams (Ship)
- Liancourt (Ship)
- Little, Eben L., b. 1837
- Little, John Pierce, b. 1831
- Little, Moses F., 1823-1917?
- Lydia (Ship)
- Mary Anne (Ship)
- Merchants -- New Hampshire
- Minerva (Ship : 1800-1807)
- Nantucket (Ship)
- Navigator (Ship)
- New Bedford (Mass.)
- New Bedford (Ship)
- Nobile (Ship)
- Norman (Ship)
- Old Prometheus (Ship)
- Oregon National Historic Trail
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Overland journeys to the Pacific -- 1849
- Phoenix (Steamer)
- Pitcairn Islands
- Rose (Ship)
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- Sagamore Mining and Trading Company
- Society Islands (French Polynesia)
- Sophie (Steamer)
- Sutter's Fort (Sacramento, Calif.)
- Swift (Ship)
- Voyages to the Pacific coast
- Whalers (Persons) -- Massachusetts
- Whaling
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 Chicago, Ill.)
- Title
- Guide to the Moses F. Little Papers
- Author
- by Beinecke Staff
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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