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31/1/1850 Nagle departs on Gloucester for San Francisco
Departures Jan 31st . Gloucester 397 tons (sic) Tardiff, master for San Francisco The New Zealander 2/2/1850 p2 col 1  1850 Nagle, Capt. Jeremiah, ship Elizabeth, Clark’s Point, San Francisco
Source San Francisco City Directory See also Schooner Elizabeth ‘Gold Fleet for California’ p108 The schooner Elizabeth was 38ft long, 13ft wide 6ft depth, 22 tons built by James Gibson in Auckland in 1849. The Elizabeth was owned and commanded by Wm Talbot, and made a passage of 100 days Ak to SF. P115 elizabeth reported as departing ak 2/11/1849 p116 arr sf under capt Kirby 10/2/1850
San Francisco in 1849. Locate Clark's Point.
 San Francisco waterfront early 1850s. Abandoned vessels lie rotting at their moorings, their crews having left them for the goldfields.
 27/4/1850 Arthur Devlin departs to San Francisco as passenger with his brother Patrick and Robert Campbell on ‘Constant’
See ‘Multiple Stains’ by Brig. Stan Devlin p183
At some time shortly after his arrival in San Francisco, Nagle formed‘Cole & Nagle’ Shipping & Passenger Agents, San Francisco *
Oct/Nov 1850 Hargraves in California about to depart on Emma, master Captain Arthur Devlin, to Sydney. The Discovery and Geognosy of Gold Deposits in Australia: with comparisons and accounts of the … by David Simpson published 1860, p83-4
1851 7/1/1851 Emma Capt Devlin arrives Sydney from California with Hargraves on board
barque Emma, 295 tons, Captain Devlin The Emma:— Captain Devlin has kindly favoured us with the following interesting account of this vessel's passage:— The above vessel sailed from the anchorage on the 23rd November, 1850, and has made the passage over in forty-five days, and from land to land in thirty-seven days, having been beating off a lee shore the first seven days after leaving the port, with gales veering between south-west and west-south-west, and a mountainous sea from the westward. She ran from the land to the Line in sixteen days, which she crossed in 156'50 west, carrying strong winds the whole time between north-east and east, passed seventy miles to the eastward of the Navigator group, and within one mile of the island of Vavau ; sighted Turtle Island, and carried moderate winds between north-east and east-north-east to the extreme of the Southern Tropic, when I experienced a series of moderate gales between west-north-west and north-west, accompanied with much thunder, lightning and rain. Barometer receded to 29'40 and stood so for six days in continuance. Sighted Lord Howe's Island on the 1st January, and experienced light south-west winds and fine weather for several days. On the 4th had a strong southerly gale, which lasted eighteen hours, when the wind became light at south-east to east, with fine weather, until I made land yesterday of Newcastle. Made the run for the meridian of Sandwich Islands to Sydney Heads in twenty-seven days. The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General trade List, Volume 8, Number 356 (11 Jan. 1851) pp. 350, 355
7/1/1851 Emma arrives in Sydney from San Francisco- passenger list January 7, - Emma, barque, 295 tons, Captain Devlin, from San Francisco the 23rd November. Passengers - Mr E H Hargraves, Mr Frederick Lockyer, Mr Frederick Shrove, Mr J Walford, Master Anderson, Mr Sloman, Mr and Mrs Leaner, Mr and Mrs Simmons, Mr and Mrs Ridgley and son, Mr Mullair, Mr O’Neill, Mr Slaterie, Mr Quark, Mr Moore, Mr Carr, Mr Nowlan, Mr Thompson, Mr M’Michael, Mr and Mrs Otto, Mr and Mrs Williamson, Mr Gosney, Mr White, Mr Brown, Mr Jamieson, Mr Cunningham, Mr Cowper, Mr Simpson, Mr McCullory, Mr Munn, Master Munn, Mr Osmend, Mr Glenwright, Mr Sullivan, Mr Ritchie, Mr and Mrs Sells, Mr Wilkinson, Mr Nairn, Mr Devine, Mr Moreton, Mr Paton, Master Paton, Mr M’Cabe, Mr M’Pherson, Mr Bird, George Latimor, George Dent, Leyey Van Den Brey, George Rawson, James Phillipson, Thomas Lead, William Kinchela, Phillip Lorrison, Malek Adel, Owen Pearson, John Tysson, James Tye, William Smith, James Hogan, Stephen King, James Byrne, and Adolphus M’Michan. The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, Volume 8, Number 356 Sat Jan 11, 1851 7/1/1851 Hargraves arrives in Sydney on the Emma master Devlin from California
The Discovery and Geognosy of Gold Deposits in Australia: with comparisons and accounts of the … by David Simpson published 1860, p83-4 see Hargraves file 22/1/1851 Advertisement for auction of Nagle’s house and contents in Auckland
Sales by Auction. Sale of Dwelling House and allotment, household furniture, &c., &c., - The Proprietor being about to leave the Colony. -------- Connell & Ridings Have received Instructions to sell by Public Auction, on the Premises, at the Residence of Capt. Nagle, near Fort Ligar, on Tuesday, 28th inst., at 11 o’Clock- A new and substantial, weather-boarded cottage.- Lined throughout, consisting of two Sitting-rooms, canvassed and papered, two Bedrooms, Kitchen, Closet, Verandah, Lobby, &c., with Outhouses, and an excellent Well which yields a never-failing supply of pure water.- also the entire Allotment (No, 14 of Section 23) on which it stands, with frontage on a principal street 100 links wide- Nelson-street, parallel with Hobson -street. After which- The Household Furniture and effects, viz., - Tables, Chairs, Sofa, Portable Iron Bedsteads, Large Hair Mattrass, Work Table, Marble Slab, Washing stand, Fender, Curtains, &c., &c., &c., Also about 120 Volumes Books, among which are Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 12 vols., Rollin’s Ancient History, 6 vols., Lingard’s History of England, 14 vols., Bouuet’s variations of the Protestant Church, Works of Pindar, Shakespeare, Johnson, &c., &c. The New Zealander Wednesday 22nd January, 1851. page 2,
28/1/1851 Tuesday 11 O’Clock, Nagles house sold followed immediately by auction of contents. See The New Zealander 22/1/1851
29/1/1851 Barque Novelty to sail for San Francisco with Mrs Nagle and children The barque Novelty is now a full ship and will sail on Friday for San Francisco. The New Zealander wed 29/1/51 p2
31/1/1851: Barque Novelty (British), Capt. Harrison, 62 days to San Francisco with assorted cargo. Passengers: Dr. Campbell; Mr. Murray; Mrs. Nagle and family Shipping Intelligence Jan 31-Novelty, 255tons, Capt Harrison, for San Francisco. Plus long list of cargo. The New Zealander 1/2/51 p2 1/4/1851 Barrier Estate transferred to John Falconer by Campbell and Smith for £35,000 Grouden p46 ref Whitaker/Heale papers 12/2/1851 Gold discovered in NSW by Hargraves after arriving back to Sydney on the Emma master Arthur Devlin- mentions Wm Abercrombie being in California and Melbourne
April 3: Barque Novelty (British), Capt. Harrison, 62 days from Auckland, N Z, assorted cargo. Passengers: Dr. Campbell; Mr. Murray; Mrs. Nagle and family
Source: Gold Fleet for California: Forty Niners from Australia and New Zealand, Charles Bateson, Michigan State University Press, 1963.
From John Logan Campbell file- mention of trip to San Francisco :- “In the meantime there was much to occupy him: a trip to San Francisco to salvage an unprofitable goldrush speculation (February to August 1851), exports to Australia and cargoes of timber and kauri gum for Britain, and a wide range of agency and commercial activities. The speculative coup of this period was the purchase in September 1853 of a superb 1,000 acre suburban farm, which Campbell renamed One Tree Hill.” Source: coming Note: Obviously Mrs. Nagle and Co would have had good medical advice and care aboard, as Dr Campbell had been a ship's surgeon on his first voyage from Europe. Campbell was also interested in forging commercial links to stimulate trade, and Nagle had or was about to have, a shipping agency in California.-DJA
13/9/1851 William Webster referred to as being in California. SUPREME COURT. Civil Side.—Tuesday. September 9. Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a Special J... [truncated] New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 565, 13 September 1851, Page 2 1852
1852-3 Nagle J. shipping office, 153 Front San Francisco City Directory
‘Deborah’ wrecked in Pacific 23/2/1852 at Anietyum the sthn most island in New Hebrides group See Wing of the Manukau p130 and refers Capt White’s letter referring to the loss.
1853
1852-3 Nagle J. shipping office, 153 Front San Francisco City Directory Vessels Up For Sydney- Cole and Nagle have manifested much enterprise in throwing such activity into their Great Australian Line of Packets as they have within the last month or so.
Source: The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld, Australia) Sat. 7th May, 1853. p2.
The Ship Isle of Wight, and the American barque Pacific, were laid on by Captain Nagle, firm of Cole and Nagle, for Sydney and Port Phillip, to sail about the beginning of February.
Source: The Argus, (Mebourne, Victoria, Australia) Mon. 16th May, 1853, p4.
The United States
Cole and Nagle announce a regular line of packets for Sydney and Melbouirne, and guarantee to make such arrangements as will secure the permanence of a regular line of packets of the first class in point of accomodation and sailing qualities.
Source: The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Wed. 25th May, 1853 p4
1854
Late March, 1854 Nagle subpoenaed to testify at trial - but didn’t take the stand. Nagle was subpoenaed to testify in Watkins' trial, Source Chris Nelson perscom email 31/3/2006
1855 1855 Sometime, Edward Robert Campbell Nagle born in California
Note- Campbell name would have been after John Logan Campbell as he accompanied Mrs Nagle and children to SanFrancisco-DJA
1856
Nagle a shipping agent, sends ships to Melbourne, Australia. For Melbourne Direct The well-known new clipper schooner Simeon Draper Capt Ashby Is now ready, at Market street Wharf, to take freight. The attention of shippers to Australia, and especially strangers who feel inclined to ship, must bear in mind that Melbourne is the great depot for the Australian mines, and those who forward goods to Sydney ought to be aware that nine-tenths of their merchandise is transhipped to Melbourne, as that is the great mart for American goods. Therefore, as a matter of economy and an immense saving of time, I would recommend shippers to send their goods direct to Melbourne. Will sail on Saturday next. Has room for 10 tons of freight. For further particulars, apply to J. Nagle 102 Davis, 4 doors south of Jackson St. Source: The Daily Alta. January 15th 1856.
For Freight or Charter A new Baltimore clipper built SCHOONER, 140 tons register. Apply to J. Nagle 102 Davis st. For Sale - Two schooners of 150 and 25 tons register. Source: The Daily Alta. 2nd February, 1856. Sometime in 1856 Nagle becomes master of the steam-powered sidewheeler/sailing ship ‘Commodore’
 1857 April 1858 Nagle writes to ALTA Newspaper warning of dangers of unlicensed vessels entering Fraser River. ….difficulty in going some fifty miles up the stream, and her captain thinks, he can easily run his boat to the locality of the present mining operations, (twenty miles above Fort Hope at the Rapids). The Fraser is a large stream, larger than the Sacramento having its source in the Rocky Mountains, and draining a vast extent of county; its principal tributary, Thompson’s River, comes in from the south, having its source in this Territory.Provisions are very scarce and high at the mines, and persons who design coming from California, would do well to bring a supply of articles of consumption, as well as mining tools. The point of debarkation will be this place, from which conveyances can, at all times, be had to the river and up to the mines. The citizens of Bellingham Bay are cutting out a pack trail from that place to the river near Fort Hope. By this trail the distance from the coast to the mines will not be more than 75 miles, while it is 150 miles by Fraser’s River. The road will be open about the 15th of May, and Bellingham Bay will become the great starting point for the mines. MINES IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY - The Fraser River mines will doubtless exert a powerful influence on the Sound country. It is true that these gold deposits are on British soil, but what of that? If gold is found in abundance on the line, or just north of it, why not just south of it? It has already been proved that gold does exist, in small quantities at least, in all the streams that flow from the Cascade range of mountains. If there is gold north and south of us, why not in our own territory? I predict that at no distant day the eastern portion of Washington Territory will be found to be rich in the precious metals, and instead of being an out-of-the-way and neglected place, it will have a dense population..” The Alta received two letters within three days from a Mr. Jeremiah Nagle, a business person of San Francisco, who was advertising vessels for the Thompson River mines. In his two letters, he provided information received by him, by letters from Victoria, V.I. about the exclusive rights of the H.B.Co. over the trade and navigation of boats and provisions within the British Possession area. The combined information being provided stated: “Editor Alta: The Hudson’s Bay Company has under its charter the exclusive rights to navigate the rivers of the country, and this gives the Company a complete command of the trade. They furnish all the goods sold in the mines, and fix their own prices. Any vessel which should attempt to enter Fraser’s River without a license from the Company would be seized. I would recommend all who would intend visiting the mines to proceed to Victoria, take out their licences, and there they will receive every information connected with the gold diggings. Their licence will be a kind of pass, which will, I believe, be a benefit to the holders. I would strongly advise ship owners not to allow their vessels to take freight up the Fraser River. If they do, it is ten to one bet they will be seized. This advice I have given to many, but they have said, “The Governor has not the power to enforce the law.” They are mistaken. He has two vessels of war under his control, and the commanders of these vessels are bound to enforce his orders, however unpleasant may be their feelings. Whenever John Bull’s officials give an order they must be obeyed ; therefore, I recommend the public, whether they are natives of England or America, or any of any other country, to be careful how they venture to navigate the river under the control of the Hudson’s Bay Company without their consent.” On the 13th of April, the Alta had received another letter, which provided a little more information about the status of the mines and on the routes to the mines. The information being spoken about by the writer was relayed as coming from the experience of an Indian trader. “Editors Alta: By the arrival of the steamer Columbia, the news from the gold diggings in the Shuswap country is partially confirmed, but still indefinite. Now, in regard to this place, about which so little is known, I desire to state what I learned nearly a month since, from an Indian trader, who was then in….” Source: ‘The Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858 as Reported by the Californian Newspapers: Was it a Humbug?’ page 34, Compiled and written by Lewis J. Swindle ISBN 1552127214 Trafford Publishing Nagle organizes Blacks from California to Victoria, BC, Canada. April, 1858 VANCOUVER ISLAND'S BLACK COMMUNITY: THE BEGINNINGEight hundred freed Black men, women and children emigrated to Victoria during 1858 from California. A proposed bill that would restrict the immigration of Blacks to California prompted their departure from the US. "The effect of the bill would have been to legalize slavery in California as long as the government itself was the slaveholder."*Members of California's Black community met in April of 1858 to plan a mass migration from the state. They considered several destinations including: Panama, Sonora and Vancouver Island. Interest in Vancouver Island grew when Jeremiah Nagle, Captain of the steamer Commodore addressed the community. His presentation included a letter from a representative of the Hudson's Bay Company, believed to be Sir James Douglas, giving details about the colony and welcoming the Blacks. A pioneer committee was sent to interview Governor Douglas to see if they would be received in the colony. The committee returned and reported that they had been welcomed by Douglas. Throughout the spring and summer of 1858 Black immigrants left California for Vancouver Island. *Source: Go Do Some Great Thing by Crawford Kilian April 14th, 1858 Nagle addresses Blacks in a downtown church to make a case for their emigration to Victoria. Source “The Black islanders” by Grant Shilling in 7/2/2001 edition of ‘Monday’ magazine, Victoria BC April 20, 1858, some 600 - 800 black Californians including Archy Lee boarded the steamship Commodore owned by the Columbia Steam Navigation Company, and set sail for Victoria, British Columbia. Source: coming
* Nagle's partner in the company 'Nagle & Cole' was George Cole. Here is a biography of Cole:
COLE, GEORGE WARD (1793-1879), merchant, was born on 15 November 1793 at Lumley Castle, Durham, England, the fourth son of John Cole and his wife Eliza, née James. In 1807 he joined the navy and as a midshipman was stationed in the West Indies until 1810 when he transferred to the Channel Squadron. He was promoted lieutenant in 1814 and spent the next year on the North American coast in various amphibious operations, among them the destruction of Washington. In 1817, after further service in the West Indies, he was retired on half-pay. Then began an adventurous career in the merchant marine, sometimes as part-owner of the ships he commanded. He engaged in such speculative trades as opium, furs and sandalwood and spent some time pearl-fishing. In the 1830s he was whaling and trading out of Honolulu. Here he antagonized the missionaries by opening a grog shop, and he helped to found a non-mission school for European children. He had several clashes with natives, and in 1834 he won a lawsuit with Pomare of Tahiti over the theft of his vessel, the Truro. Shortly before settling at Port Phillip in 1840, he set up in business at Sydney, fitting out whaling ships, and had even bought land there for a patent slip. He was in England buying machinery when he changed his mind. Cole arrived in Melbourne on 4 July 1840 in the schooner Waterlily, of which he was part-owner. He set up as a general merchant, and in 1841 bought land on the Yarra River near Spencer Street, where he built Cole's Wharf. In 1842 he married for the second time. His first wife had been a widow, Eliza Cantey, the daughter of Colonel Charles Brietyche. His second wife was Thomas Anne, daughter of William Gordon McCrae, formerly of Westbrook, Midlothian, Scotland. He had one son by the first and three sons and three daughters by the second marriage. In Melbourne he continued his interest in shipping. He operated paddle-steamers on the Yarra and in Port Phillip Bay, and in 1851 he built the City of Melbourne, the first screw steamer south of the equator. He ran it between Melbourne and Launceston until it was wrecked. He also had important banking and squatting interests and was agent for Lloyds. He had quickly established himself as a prominent citizen, and his wealth is evident in the scale of a fishing and picnic party he gave in December 1841 for 150 friends, including Superintendent La Trobe; and in the purchase, in 1842, of 24 acres (9.7 ha) on the sea front at Brighton, where the famous St Ninian's was erected from prefabricated teak. Cole won the Gippsland seat in the Legislative Council in 1853. He may have been motivated by a desire to obtain full redress for the resumption of his wharf in 1852, at the height of the gold rush, just when it would have made a fortune. If so, he had a long and disappointing wait: not until 1868 did he receive £19,000 in compensation. He considered this sum paltry when set against his expenditure and the revenue he might have had from the thousands of immigrants who used the wharf in the 1850s. He resigned from the Legislative Council in 1855 and went to England, but on his return in 1857 was elected for the Central Province and again in 1860 and 1870. An ardent protectionist, as one of his pamphlets dated 1860 shows, and a radical, he supported McCulloch in the Darling grant deadlock in 1867. In that year he was made an executive councillor. Cole published a number of pamphlets in the 1860s and 1870s in which he displayed an interest in social and economic questions ranging from unemployment and the establishment of a harbour trust to the Yarra floods and the need for gunboats and a local powder manufactory. The Coles's life at St Ninian's was far from ostentatious, much of their food coming from the property itself, but they were frequently received at Government House, and counted as friends many prominent people. They were members of the Church of England. Captain Cole was keenly interested in horticulture. In the 1860s St Ninian's was the scene of the celebrated Brighton Flower Show. He introduced sugar beet into the colony in 1863 and was a pioneer in the use of seaweed as a fertilizer. In parliament he strongly advocated the establishment of agricultural colleges. He died at Melbourne on 26 April 1879. Portraits are in the Brighton City Council chambers, Victoria. Select BibliographyMen of the Time in Australia, Victorian series (Melb, 1878); A. Sutherland, Victoria and its Metropolis, vols 1-2 (Melb, 1888); W. Bate, A History of Brighton (Melb, 1962). [more]. Author: Weston Bate Print Publication Details: Weston Bate, 'Cole, George Ward (1793 - 1879)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp 233-234. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/scripts/adbp-ent_search.php?ranktext=kinghorne&search=Go%21 * |
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