Israel Brockman

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"One of the first Sonomans to go prospecting [due to the Gold Rush] was Nicholas Carriger, who together with his brother-in-law Joseph Wardlow and friends Elias Graham and Henry Thornton, set out in the Spring of 1848" ("Pioneer Sonoma" Robert Parmalee)
 
"One of the first Sonomans to go prospecting [due to the Gold Rush] was Nicholas Carriger, who together with his brother-in-law Joseph Wardlow and friends Elias Graham and Henry Thornton, set out in the Spring of 1848" ("Pioneer Sonoma" Robert Parmalee)
  
"[Again in 1849] Nick Carriger...[went] to the gold mins at Auburn, where he made enough money to permit him to return and purchase from Vallejo a large ranch on the west side of Sonoma Valley, adjacent to the road which today bears his name." (Robert Parmalee, "Pioneer Sonoma")
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"[Again in 1849] Nick Carriger...[went] to the gold mines at Auburn, where he made enough money to permit him to return and purchase from Vallejo a large ranch on the west side of Sonoma Valley, adjacent to the road which today bears his name." (Robert Parmalee, "Pioneer Sonoma")
  
 
1850 Census Sonoma Co, California
 
1850 Census Sonoma Co, California
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From an anoymous article in the Alta California 4 Oct 1859 (as reported by Robert Parmalee "Pioneer Sonoma") "[Of the pioneers who came to Sonoma in 1846] Nick Carriger is almost the only thriving man [still] in the valley who crossed the continent in 1846."
 
From an anoymous article in the Alta California 4 Oct 1859 (as reported by Robert Parmalee "Pioneer Sonoma") "[Of the pioneers who came to Sonoma in 1846] Nick Carriger is almost the only thriving man [still] in the valley who crossed the continent in 1846."
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