[Printed Document Completed in Manuscript] Land Grant and Letters Patent from the State of California. El Dorado County, 1884 to 49er Turned Stockman and Teamster, Timothy Guy Barton de [Gold Rush] [California. El Dorado County] - 1884

El Dorado County, CA, 1884. Very good, folded, contents clear, state seal bright and intact.. 1 sheet. 20 x 16 inches. January 24, 1884. "United States of America -- State of California. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: ....'An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands and to Grant Pre-emption Rights.'..." Land contains 160 acres granted to Timothy G. Barton. Signed by Governor George Stoneman, the Secretary of State, Thomas L. Thompson, & H.L. Willey, the Register of the State Land Office. Timothy Guy Barton, was born in New York on February 25, 1830, and he was nineteen years old when he arrived at Hangtown in August 1849, having had little difficulty in journeying across the great plains. He went into the placer mines, but soon took up land, raising stock and farming, as a sturdy pioneer, and sending provisions into the mines from his ranch. He also engaged in teaming, transporting freight from Sacramento to Virginia City, Nev. In 1858 Mr. Barton was married to Miss Jane McLevy, a native of Liverpool, who arrived in California the year before ....Mr. Barton passed away in 1893. at the age of sixty-three: while Mrs. Barton lived to be seventy. (G. Walter Reed: History of Sacramento County, California, [LA, 1923], p 329.