Diary_Journal_of_a_Passenger_0002

Diary

Palmetto Mining Co.

Journal of a passenger on Company voyage from Charles-
ton, South Carolina to Coloma, California via Isth-
mus and San Francisco, March 3 - August 21, 1849;
mining days in Coloma to October 12, 1849.

[C. W. Haskins' ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORNIA, p. 476, lists
twenty men on Brig HENRICO from Charleston, five of
whom are named in this journal. Journey is recorded
in book which belonged to Edward Keegan. Keegan,
purported author, did not write the journal according
to a statement made by his daughter in January, 1945.]