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“ After some years hearing of this land of gold [my parents] left Melbourne and sailed in the ship Orator, arriving at this city of tents and dilapidated shacks in May 1850. They brought a house with them, rented a lot on Vallejo Street from Samuel Brannan for which they paid $90 dollars a month.
In 1851, my parents bought a lot on Stockton Street between Greenwich and Lombard. They erected the first brick cottage in San Francisco. They moved, by oxen, their house on Vallejo Street to the rear of the Stockton Street lot. In 1852, father built a three-story brick house on the adjoining lot and rented it to P.B. Cornwall, who had recently arrived from Sacramento. ”
Anna Helen Jordan Sea
arrived as an infant in 1850 from Australia