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- 1850 Federal Census of Elkhart County, Indiana
Ann Bassett - 63 - F - Kentucky
C R - 22 - M - Ohio Farmer
Sarah A - 20 - F - Ohio
George Bassett lived in Sacramento, California from 1852 through at least 1860.
California, September 24th, 1852
Dear brother, i take this oporunity to enform you i have arived in california and i am well and i hope these few lines will find you and the friends all well i had the mountain fever when i was on the humbolt and was sick two weeks but i am as ever now we are thirsty unles north of marysville ive had been sorre five days i have not done every thing more than prospect some yet and they canot doe witch untill it raines in the dry digings and there is not until doing on the revers we came by the of salt lake the journey was not any harder than i thought it was but it is hard legions and angesons journey i would you to write what you are all doing and where you all are Mo Low trade his horses for oxen at salt lake and he lost one ox direct your answer to Sacrimento california. G.R. Bassett
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