Father—Isaac Schuyler
Mother—Elizabeth Jones Schuyler
Without Cynthia E. Jamieson's help. I would know none of the following. Thank you.
Nicholas applied for a passport on January 25, 1849. His plan was to leave this port for California in the ?? on the 27th day of January
His description was 23 years old.
5 ft 9 in
Forehead-round and full
Eyes- light blue
Nose-Straight
Mouth -small
Chin-small
Complexion -light
Hair-brown
Face-thin
Leaving for the goldfields
Married—Margaretta Norton January 28, 1849 from England.
Nicholas headed west and became a forty Niner searching for gold in Shasta County, California.
The discovery of gold...
Major Pierson B. Reading discovered gold in Clear Creek in 1848 at what is now known as Reading Bar, located about a mile upstream. Major Reading (1816-1868) came overland to California in 1843. He was awarded his own land grant of 26,632 acres which he named Rancho Buena Ventura, meaning Good Fortune. It was situated on the west bank of the Sacramento River, between Cottonwood Creek and Salt Creek and was approximately 3 miles wide and19 miles long.
In 1844, while Reading worked as John Sutter's clerk and trapper, Thousands of people rushed here in search of fortune. Gold fever spread and caught people from all walks of life, who quit their jobs and headed for the California gold fields.. Major Reading and approximately 150 Native Americans whom he employed were the first to mine on the bar on Clear Creek in the spring and summer of 1848. They picked gold nuggets up off the ground and put them into baskets to take back to his Adobe. It's indicated they took gold nuggets out by the bucketful, as much as 52 ounces (or $1000) a day. There are estimates that $3 Million was taken from Reading's Bar the first year. Reading got the easiest diggings in this area and moved on to mine in Trinity County with even greater success. (Just a note: the Native Americans WERE aware of the gold. They gave it no value as it could not be eaten or made into a tool.)
The "leak" of the news of the gold discovery was actually a calculated one from a couple of merchants in San Francisco who believed they could strike it rich selling supplies and equipment to miners. So, now the rush is on. News spread all over the world and many rushed to California to find their fortunes. I have a copy of the 1850 census page showing my 3rd great grandfather on his claim on the South Fork of the American River. On that one census page there are miners from Germany, France, Kentucky, New York, and Spain.
The location on Clear Creek was the second major gold discovery in California. During1849 miners came from all directions seeking gold
Miners often lived a sparse existence in tents, cabins, or shacks while working their claims. Gold mining settlements or "boomtowns" sprung up rapidly with names like Horestown, Muletown, and Whiskeytown. Horsetown was located about two miles upstream. In 1852 The creeks were too high to cross and no bridges existed. Food supplies were short and her father, John H. Bidwell paid $50 for fifty pounds of flour, $50 for fifty pounds of corn meal, and $10 for ten pounds of dried peaches. Gold was more plentiful that food at that time. Early in the Gold Rush white women and children were not found in the gold camps. Some of the miners, as the trappers did before them, took Native American women as their wives or concubines. Just the privilege of gazing upon a white woman commanded cold hard gold dust. I read an account of a miner whose wife was the first in the area and he collected gold from the other miners who were allowed to gaze at her standing on her front porch from a distance. There were many unusual opportunities for women in the cities and the gold fields as men, starved for female company, paid extravagant fees to associate with women or buy products that were made by women. Women made more money selling homemade pies, biscuits, doughnuts, etc. than their husbands made mining. Restaurants, lodging, laundries, mending, and waiting tables, all paid good wages.
There was no school at Horsetown so the children were taught by their mother until Mrs. Elmore arrived and started a private school at Texas Springs, a mining town 2-1/2 miles from Horsetown. The Bidwell children walked to school and back each day. In 1856 E. L. Apperon taught school in Horsetown.
In 1852 Father Florian built a wood frame church in Horsetown (which was destroyed by fire in 1868). The first telegraph and Wells Fargo Express office in the county were at Horsetown. By the mid fifties Horsetown had board sidewalks on Main Street (its only street), two brick buildings and a lumber yard. There were two hotels, the Union and Spencer's which had a concert hall on the second floor. A. T. Corbus & Co. and Wm. Weil & Co. were among several mercantile stores. There was a bakery, three butchers, restaurants and many boarding houses in Horsetown. There were two blacksmiths and a livery stable and F. B. Chandler ran the Horsetown & Shasta Express, via Middletown in 1858. A Masonic Lodge (the Clinton Lodge # 119) was established in 1857 and miners enjoyed a tenpin alley also. And of course, fourteen salons including Duffy's Exchange which served choice liquors and cigars. James Hart started a newspaper, the Northern Argus, which he printed from 1860 – 1863.
There was just one street though Horsetown, the main Shasta-Horsetown-Igo road. On the north side of the street the houses were set near the hills, their back yards almost at the foot of the slope. The Coughlin house was on the north side of the street and there were catalpas and many other shade trees, shrubs and flowers in their garden. At the height of the Gold Rush, Horsetown covered 36 acres and had about 1,000 inhabitants. Chinese miners arrived in Shasta County in the early 1850s.
Nicholas mined in Horsetown. Prior to its current name of Horsetown, it was known as One Horse Town.Before changing to One Horse Town, it was named Clear Creek Diggings. A fire destroyed most of Horsetown in 1868.
Let me share some interesting facts with you:
In 1851, a 56 oz. gold nugget was found in Whiskey Creek.
In 1870, a 184.5 oz. gold nugget was found on Spring Creek near the Iron Mountain Railway crossing. In 1880, another even larger than the first was found about 100 ft. away. I frequently bicycle right by that spot, just north of the Rock Creek trailhead at Iron Mountain Road, but I haven't seen any gold.
In 1878 a 13 oz. crystallized chunk of gold was taken from the Mad Mule Mine and exhibited at the Paris Exposition the same year. It was the largest piece of unworked native gold in the exposition and it won 1st place as finest gold exhibited there.
In the 1890's a 2 lb. gold nugget was found on a claim in the Flat Creek Mining District. In 1912 a 191⁄2 oz. nugget was found in Mad Mule Canyon.
In 1853 gold shipments out of Shasta averaged $100,000 a week or $5.2 million for the year. I want to put this into perspective for you. In 1853 the price of gold was $18.93 per ounce. In the spring of 2013 the price of gold was $1,764.61 per ounce. I divided $100,000 by the 1853 gold price to determine how many ounces were in the shipment (5,282.62) and multiplied that by the gold price now to determine the value of each week's shipment in today's dollars exceeds $ 9.3 million. Each and every week of the year totals $483 million for the year. WOW!!
Source was edited from a document compiled by Cathy Scott from stories and information mostly from the Shasta Historical Society's annual publications of the Covered Wagon. I want to acknowledge and thank the Historical Society. They maintain an index for several decades of the Covered Wagon which can be found at the Historical Society or the Redding Library.
Nicholas Schuyler obtained a passport to leave for California. The name of the ship is unclear but it was leaving in January of 1849. Where and when he met and married Margaretta is still unclear but Shasta Butte Schuyler was born in 1855 along with their other children in Dry Creek/Horsetown, California.
In Dry Creek Nicholas was taxed a house and hogs for $7.30 but was on the delinquent tax list along with many others.
Nicholas was taxed in Horsetown in December 1860 for houses, hogs, and furniture for $7.89 but was in arrears.
Children
1. Shasta Butte Schuyler born in 1855 in California who died in Chicago, Illinois—
USA 1880 Census—and married Isabelle Simpson
Name Shasta B. Schuyler
Sex Male
Age 25
Event Date 1880
Event Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Event Place (Original) CHICAGO, ED 42, Cook, IL, United States
Event Type Census
Birth Year (Estimated) 1855
Birthplace California, United States
Marital Status Married
Occupation Restaurant Keeper
Race White
Relationship to Head of Household Self
Father's Birthplace New York, United States
Mother's Birthplace England
Wife-Isabel Simpson Schuyler
2. Marguerite (Margaretta) Schuyler was born in 1857 in Dry Creek, California . When she married Walter Burns September 28, 1878, her age was 21 giving her a birth date of Oct 5, 1857. They were married in Chatsworth, Illinois. Walter -age 21-was born in Hamilton, Ohio the son of James H Burns and Lydia J Bigham. His occupation was a Piano Fort Tuner. She died April 25, 1931 in Seattle, Washington. She was a widow and 67 years old in St Vincent's Home.
3. Julia H Schuyler was born in California October 11, 1859 married David L Shroyer/Schroyer. She passed away May 30, 1917 age 57 in Chicago, buried in Oakwoods Cemetery. Julia's daughter was Florence Shroyer Van Voorhees who was born October 8, 1884 in Peoria, Illinois. Florence died in Chicago, Illinois December 30. 1963 at age 79 listed as divorced and a typist. She was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Worth, Illinois.
4 Triplets died young b and died in 1862.
They died during the cholera epidemic that ravaged Shasta, California in late 1861 through 1863, according to Shasta Park records.Newspaper accounts reported they were born healthy but along with possible birth complications and low medical care at that time in the Goldrush Town of Horsetown, Shasta County, California the Cholera outbreak could have played a factor.
There is a Benjamin Schuyler -son of Nicholas and Margaret Schuyler who was with them in Portland, Oregon in the USA 1870 Census. He is 7 years old which would make him born in 1863. Possibly he is the triplet Benjamin that survived but it could have been born in 1864 and named for the triplet Benjamin that died in Horsetown. This Benjamin passed away at age 17 in Chatsworth, Illinois.
Further there is a death record
Benjamin N. Schuyler
Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999
Name: Benjamin N. Schuyler
Event Type: Burial
Event Place: Chatsworth, Livingston, Illinois, United States
Event Place (Original): Chatsworth, Ill
Sex: Male
Age: 17
Marital Status: Single
Ethnicity: American
Race: White
Occupation: Clerk
Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Birthplace: California
Death Date: 8 Apr 1881
Death Place: Chatsworth, Livingston, Ill.
In the 1867-1868 San Francisco Directory Nicholas is listed as a clerk dwelling 812 Union
In the US 1870 Census Nicholas Schuyler and his family are found in Multnomah, Oregon where he is a "clerk in a store" with real estate of $1,000 age 44 born in New York.
Margaret is 41 "Keeping house" born in England
Margaret age 13 at school
Shasta Butte age 15 at school
Julia H age 11 at school
Benjamin age 7 at school
Children born in California
The 1865- San Francisco Business Directory shows a Nicholas Schuyler as a clerk dwelling at 414 Prospect Place.
However Nicholas is in Shasta again registering to vote Nov 7, 1876 born in New York age 51 occupation teamster .
Nicholas died in Chicago, Illinois
Name Nicholas Schuyler
Sex Male
Age 69
Death Date 8 Oct 1894
Death Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Birth Year (Estimated) 1825
Birthplace Usa
Marital Status Widowed
Occupation Laborer
Race White
Ethnicity American
Event Type Death
Cemetery Graceland
"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2MZ-ZCPY : 18 March 2018), Nicholas Schuyler, 08 Oct 1894; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .
Source-Christoph, Florence-"Schuyler Genealogy vol 2" pg 155
Contributor: A SCHUYLER (50388083) •
Father—Isaac Schuyler
Mother—Elizabeth Jones Schuyler
Without Cynthia E. Jamieson's help. I would know none of the following. Thank you.
Nicholas applied for a passport on January 25, 1849. His plan was to leave this port for California in the ?? on the 27th day of January
His description was 23 years old.
5 ft 9 in
Forehead-round and full
Eyes- light blue
Nose-Straight
Mouth -small
Chin-small
Complexion -light
Hair-brown
Face-thin
Leaving for the goldfields
Married—Margaretta Norton January 28, 1849 from England.
Nicholas headed west and became a forty Niner searching for gold in Shasta County, California.
The discovery of gold...
Major Pierson B. Reading discovered gold in Clear Creek in 1848 at what is now known as Reading Bar, located about a mile upstream. Major Reading (1816-1868) came overland to California in 1843. He was awarded his own land grant of 26,632 acres which he named Rancho Buena Ventura, meaning Good Fortune. It was situated on the west bank of the Sacramento River, between Cottonwood Creek and Salt Creek and was approximately 3 miles wide and19 miles long.
In 1844, while Reading worked as John Sutter's clerk and trapper, Thousands of people rushed here in search of fortune. Gold fever spread and caught people from all walks of life, who quit their jobs and headed for the California gold fields.. Major Reading and approximately 150 Native Americans whom he employed were the first to mine on the bar on Clear Creek in the spring and summer of 1848. They picked gold nuggets up off the ground and put them into baskets to take back to his Adobe. It's indicated they took gold nuggets out by the bucketful, as much as 52 ounces (or $1000) a day. There are estimates that $3 Million was taken from Reading's Bar the first year. Reading got the easiest diggings in this area and moved on to mine in Trinity County with even greater success. (Just a note: the Native Americans WERE aware of the gold. They gave it no value as it could not be eaten or made into a tool.)
The "leak" of the news of the gold discovery was actually a calculated one from a couple of merchants in San Francisco who believed they could strike it rich selling supplies and equipment to miners. So, now the rush is on. News spread all over the world and many rushed to California to find their fortunes. I have a copy of the 1850 census page showing my 3rd great grandfather on his claim on the South Fork of the American River. On that one census page there are miners from Germany, France, Kentucky, New York, and Spain.
The location on Clear Creek was the second major gold discovery in California. During1849 miners came from all directions seeking gold
Miners often lived a sparse existence in tents, cabins, or shacks while working their claims. Gold mining settlements or "boomtowns" sprung up rapidly with names like Horestown, Muletown, and Whiskeytown. Horsetown was located about two miles upstream. In 1852 The creeks were too high to cross and no bridges existed. Food supplies were short and her father, John H. Bidwell paid $50 for fifty pounds of flour, $50 for fifty pounds of corn meal, and $10 for ten pounds of dried peaches. Gold was more plentiful that food at that time. Early in the Gold Rush white women and children were not found in the gold camps. Some of the miners, as the trappers did before them, took Native American women as their wives or concubines. Just the privilege of gazing upon a white woman commanded cold hard gold dust. I read an account of a miner whose wife was the first in the area and he collected gold from the other miners who were allowed to gaze at her standing on her front porch from a distance. There were many unusual opportunities for women in the cities and the gold fields as men, starved for female company, paid extravagant fees to associate with women or buy products that were made by women. Women made more money selling homemade pies, biscuits, doughnuts, etc. than their husbands made mining. Restaurants, lodging, laundries, mending, and waiting tables, all paid good wages.
There was no school at Horsetown so the children were taught by their mother until Mrs. Elmore arrived and started a private school at Texas Springs, a mining town 2-1/2 miles from Horsetown. The Bidwell children walked to school and back each day. In 1856 E. L. Apperon taught school in Horsetown.
In 1852 Father Florian built a wood frame church in Horsetown (which was destroyed by fire in 1868). The first telegraph and Wells Fargo Express office in the county were at Horsetown. By the mid fifties Horsetown had board sidewalks on Main Street (its only street), two brick buildings and a lumber yard. There were two hotels, the Union and Spencer's which had a concert hall on the second floor. A. T. Corbus & Co. and Wm. Weil & Co. were among several mercantile stores. There was a bakery, three butchers, restaurants and many boarding houses in Horsetown. There were two blacksmiths and a livery stable and F. B. Chandler ran the Horsetown & Shasta Express, via Middletown in 1858. A Masonic Lodge (the Clinton Lodge # 119) was established in 1857 and miners enjoyed a tenpin alley also. And of course, fourteen salons including Duffy's Exchange which served choice liquors and cigars. James Hart started a newspaper, the Northern Argus, which he printed from 1860 – 1863.
There was just one street though Horsetown, the main Shasta-Horsetown-Igo road. On the north side of the street the houses were set near the hills, their back yards almost at the foot of the slope. The Coughlin house was on the north side of the street and there were catalpas and many other shade trees, shrubs and flowers in their garden. At the height of the Gold Rush, Horsetown covered 36 acres and had about 1,000 inhabitants. Chinese miners arrived in Shasta County in the early 1850s.
Nicholas mined in Horsetown. Prior to its current name of Horsetown, it was known as One Horse Town.Before changing to One Horse Town, it was named Clear Creek Diggings. A fire destroyed most of Horsetown in 1868.
Let me share some interesting facts with you:
In 1851, a 56 oz. gold nugget was found in Whiskey Creek.
In 1870, a 184.5 oz. gold nugget was found on Spring Creek near the Iron Mountain Railway crossing. In 1880, another even larger than the first was found about 100 ft. away. I frequently bicycle right by that spot, just north of the Rock Creek trailhead at Iron Mountain Road, but I haven't seen any gold.
In 1878 a 13 oz. crystallized chunk of gold was taken from the Mad Mule Mine and exhibited at the Paris Exposition the same year. It was the largest piece of unworked native gold in the exposition and it won 1st place as finest gold exhibited there.
In the 1890's a 2 lb. gold nugget was found on a claim in the Flat Creek Mining District. In 1912 a 191⁄2 oz. nugget was found in Mad Mule Canyon.
In 1853 gold shipments out of Shasta averaged $100,000 a week or $5.2 million for the year. I want to put this into perspective for you. In 1853 the price of gold was $18.93 per ounce. In the spring of 2013 the price of gold was $1,764.61 per ounce. I divided $100,000 by the 1853 gold price to determine how many ounces were in the shipment (5,282.62) and multiplied that by the gold price now to determine the value of each week's shipment in today's dollars exceeds $ 9.3 million. Each and every week of the year totals $483 million for the year. WOW!!
Source was edited from a document compiled by Cathy Scott from stories and information mostly from the Shasta Historical Society's annual publications of the Covered Wagon. I want to acknowledge and thank the Historical Society. They maintain an index for several decades of the Covered Wagon which can be found at the Historical Society or the Redding Library.
Nicholas Schuyler obtained a passport to leave for California. The name of the ship is unclear but it was leaving in January of 1849. Where and when he met and married Margaretta is still unclear but Shasta Butte Schuyler was born in 1855 along with their other children in Dry Creek/Horsetown, California.
In Dry Creek Nicholas was taxed a house and hogs for $7.30 but was on the delinquent tax list along with many others.
Nicholas was taxed in Horsetown in December 1860 for houses, hogs, and furniture for $7.89 but was in arrears.
Children
1. Shasta Butte Schuyler born in 1855 in California who died in Chicago, Illinois—
USA 1880 Census—and married Isabelle Simpson
Name Shasta B. Schuyler
Sex Male
Age 25
Event Date 1880
Event Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Event Place (Original) CHICAGO, ED 42, Cook, IL, United States
Event Type Census
Birth Year (Estimated) 1855
Birthplace California, United States
Marital Status Married
Occupation Restaurant Keeper
Race White
Relationship to Head of Household Self
Father's Birthplace New York, United States
Mother's Birthplace England
Wife-Isabel Simpson Schuyler
2. Marguerite (Margaretta) Schuyler was born in 1857 in Dry Creek, California . When she married Walter Burns September 28, 1878, her age was 21 giving her a birth date of Oct 5, 1857. They were married in Chatsworth, Illinois. Walter -age 21-was born in Hamilton, Ohio the son of James H Burns and Lydia J Bigham. His occupation was a Piano Fort Tuner. She died April 25, 1931 in Seattle, Washington. She was a widow and 67 years old in St Vincent's Home.
3. Julia H Schuyler was born in California October 11, 1859 married David L Shroyer/Schroyer. She passed away May 30, 1917 age 57 in Chicago, buried in Oakwoods Cemetery. Julia's daughter was Florence Shroyer Van Voorhees who was born October 8, 1884 in Peoria, Illinois. Florence died in Chicago, Illinois December 30. 1963 at age 79 listed as divorced and a typist. She was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Worth, Illinois.
4 Triplets died young b and died in 1862.
They died during the cholera epidemic that ravaged Shasta, California in late 1861 through 1863, according to Shasta Park records.Newspaper accounts reported they were born healthy but along with possible birth complications and low medical care at that time in the Goldrush Town of Horsetown, Shasta County, California the Cholera outbreak could have played a factor.
There is a Benjamin Schuyler -son of Nicholas and Margaret Schuyler who was with them in Portland, Oregon in the USA 1870 Census. He is 7 years old which would make him born in 1863. Possibly he is the triplet Benjamin that survived but it could have been born in 1864 and named for the triplet Benjamin that died in Horsetown. This Benjamin passed away at age 17 in Chatsworth, Illinois.
Further there is a death record
Benjamin N. Schuyler
Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999
Name: Benjamin N. Schuyler
Event Type: Burial
Event Place: Chatsworth, Livingston, Illinois, United States
Event Place (Original): Chatsworth, Ill
Sex: Male
Age: 17
Marital Status: Single
Ethnicity: American
Race: White
Occupation: Clerk
Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Birthplace: California
Death Date: 8 Apr 1881
Death Place: Chatsworth, Livingston, Ill.
In the 1867-1868 San Francisco Directory Nicholas is listed as a clerk dwelling 812 Union
In the US 1870 Census Nicholas Schuyler and his family are found in Multnomah, Oregon where he is a "clerk in a store" with real estate of $1,000 age 44 born in New York.
Margaret is 41 "Keeping house" born in England
Margaret age 13 at school
Shasta Butte age 15 at school
Julia H age 11 at school
Benjamin age 7 at school
Children born in California
The 1865- San Francisco Business Directory shows a Nicholas Schuyler as a clerk dwelling at 414 Prospect Place.
However Nicholas is in Shasta again registering to vote Nov 7, 1876 born in New York age 51 occupation teamster .
Nicholas died in Chicago, Illinois
Name Nicholas Schuyler
Sex Male
Age 69
Death Date 8 Oct 1894
Death Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Birth Year (Estimated) 1825
Birthplace Usa
Marital Status Widowed
Occupation Laborer
Race White
Ethnicity American
Event Type Death
Cemetery Graceland
"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2MZ-ZCPY : 18 March 2018), Nicholas Schuyler, 08 Oct 1894; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .
Source-Christoph, Florence-"Schuyler Genealogy vol 2" pg 155
Contributor: A SCHUYLER (50388083) •
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