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Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
“ When we landed we had to jump from rock to rock on the beach. We took our trunks and baggage up to Portsmoth (sic) Square and my father left my mother, two brothers, and myself to guard them while he went to see about a tent to shelter us. While we were sitting there a good-natured man came along and spoke to my mother and asked her if we had a home and she told him father had gone to get a tent. When he found out she had none, he said no woman should live in a tent as long as he had a shanty. He left us, got a dray (a small cart), and took us to his shanty. It was on Green Street between Stockton and Dupont. A large room about 20 feet square, it contained a stove, two chairs, and a large table ... also, a hammock hanging from the ceiling. Mother had some heavy curtains and she divided the room by tacking them up, making part of it a sleeping room. Captain Fletcher slept in his hammock. He owned a sloop that he ran to Sacramento. He would go away and be gone several days at a time. ”
Caroline Elise Mosse
arrived in 1848 from Valparaiso, Chile