The Fassett Letters
The Gold-Rush Fassetts from Licking Co., Ohio
Catalog of letters from the California Fassetts to the Ohio Fassetts  
103 Letters written between February 1852 and November 1862

In March 1852, Parker Germain, his wife Ann Fassett Germain, their three children Dwight, Guy, and Clara (aged six to two), and Ann's younger brother Noah Chittenden Fassett left their homes in Ohio and traveled overland to California. During the next ten years they and another brother, Harris Hardinge Fassett, who joined them in 1854, wrote back to their parents, Dr. Harry and Clarissa Peck Fassett in Johnstown and later Granville, Ohio. These letters were preserved by Fassett descendants in Ohio and are cataloged here. In the 1970s, William A. Castle, a great grandson of Dr. Harry Fassett transcribed the letters, and the typewritten pages have been scanned, edited, and made available here.

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### Date From Place To
001 Feb 8 1852 N. C. Fassett Circleville, O Father
002 Mar 19 1852 Ann St. Louis Father, Mother, Brothers, Sisters
003 Apr 14/19/20 1852 Ann F. Germain St. Joseph [Father]
004 May 11 1852 
 		 N. C. Fassett 
+ Ann F. Germain		 Fort Kearney 
 		 Father 
+ Mother
005 Jun 26 1852 N. C. Fassett Bear River Father
006 Aug  8 1852 N. C. Fassett Placerville, Cal Father
007 Aug 10 1852 Ann Hangtown Mother & all
008
photo		 Aug 30 1852 Chitt Martinez, Cal All of you
009 Dec  6 1852 Ann Placerville Mother
010 Dec 23 1852 
+ Dec 27		 Ann F. Germain 
+ Chitt		 Placerville 
 		 Mother 
 
011 Feb 23 1853 AFG Placerville Mother
012 May 13 1853 Ann Placerville Mother
013 Aug  8 1853 Ann   Mother and all
014 Nov 13 1853 Ann Placerville Jane
015 Mar 27 1854 Chittenden Placerville, Cal Mother
016 Jun 28 1854 Ann F. Germain 
+ Chittenden		 Placerville Mother
017 Oct 29 1854 Ann Placerville Mother
018 Nov  6 1854 H. H. Fassett New York Father
019 Jan 12 1855, 
Jan 17 1855		 H. H. Fassett 
+ Ann		 Placerville 
 		 “Pepils,” and family individually & generally 
+ For all the family, from Father to Willie
020 Mar  5 1855 H. H. Fassett Placerville Mother
021 Mar  4, 12 1855 
+ Mar 14		 Ann F. Germain 
+ H. H. Fassett		 Placerville 
 		 Mother 
+ Mother
022 Mar 13 1855 Chittenden Placerville Father
023 May 14 1855 
 		 Ann 
+ H. H. Fassett		 Placerville 
 		 Mother 
+ Mother/Father
024 Jun 15 1855 Chittenden San Francisco Father
025 Sep 18 1855 
+ Sep 18/19		 H. H. Fassett 
+ Ann		 Placerville 
 		 Father 
 
026 Oct 11 1855 
+ Oct 17		 H. H. Fassett 
+ Ann		 Placerville 
 		 Mother/Jane 
+ Mother
027 Jan  3 1856 H. H. Fassett   Mother/Father
028 May  2 1856? Chittenden Placerville Father
029 Jul  2 1856 H. H. Fassett Placerville Sis Sallie/Mother/Father/John/Sis Mary/Willie
030 Aug  1 1856 N. C. Fassett Sacramento City Father
031 Sep 1 1856 H. H. Fassett Placerville Family at Home
032 Sep 3 1856 Ann Placerville Sister Sarah
033 Sep 18 1856 Chittenden Placerville Father
034 Dec 10 1856 Harris H. Fassett Placerville Miss Jane Fassett
035 Mar 2 1857 H. H. Fassett Placerville Father/Miss Mary Fassett
036 Apr 2 1857 Ann Placerville Mother
037 Apr 3 1857 Chittenden Placerville Mother
038 Sep 16 Ann Placerville Mother
039 Oct 11 1857 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
040 Nov 19 1857 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
041 Dec 21 1857 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
042 Jan 17 1858 Harris Placerville Mother/Father/John Fassett
043 Jan 31 1858 Ann On the Ranch Friends at home
044 Feb 4 1858 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
045 Apr 9 1858 Ann Pachiko [Pacheco] Mother
046 Aug 4 1858 N. C. Fassett San Francisco Mother
047 Aug 15 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
048 Aug 17 1858 Ann Pacheco Mother/Mary
049 Aug 17 1858 H. H. Fassett Pacheco Mother/Father/Jane
050 Sep 4 1858 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
051 Nov 9 1858 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
052 Dec 5 1858 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
053 Dec 19 1858 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
054 Jan 19 1859 N. C. Fassett San Francisco Mother
055 Feb [1]/2 1859? Ann [Pacheco] Mother
056 Apr 1 1859 Ann Pacheco Mother
057 Apr 3 1859 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
058 Jun 16 1859 Ann Pacheco Mother
059 Jun 16 1859 H. H. Fassett Pacheco Mother
060 Jun 19 1859 Chittenden San Francisco Mrs. C.H. Fassett
061 Jul 3 1859 Chittenden San Fran Doct H. Fassett
062 Jul 7 1859 Chittenden San Fran Doct. H. Fassett
063 Jul 11 1859 H. H. Fassett Pacheco Harry Fassett, M. D.
064 Jul 19 1859 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
065 Oct 4 1859 Chittenden San Fran Mother
066 Oct 19 1859 Chittenden San Francisco Mother
067 Jan 19 1860 N. C. Fassett San Fran Mother
068 Apr 15 1860 H. H. Fassett Pacheco John Fassett
069 Apr 19 1860 Chittenden New York Father
070 May 20 & Jul 1 1860 Ann & H. H. Fassett Pacheco Mother
071 May 27 1860 Chittenden San Fran Mother
072 Jul 8 1860 Chitt San Fran Miss Jane Fassett
073 Aug 5 1860 Chittenden San Fran Mother
074 Sep 2 1860 Chittenden San Fran Mother
075 Sep 10 1860 H. H. Fassett Pacheco, Cal Mother/Father
076 Jan 26 1861 H. H. Fassett Pacheco, Cal Mother
077 Feb 1 1861 Chittenden San Fran Mother
078 Mar 31 1861 Chittenden San Fran H. H. Fassett
079 Apr 30 1861 Chittenden San Fran Mother
080 May 19/21, 1861 H. H. Fassett New York City Father
081 Jun 16 1861 H. H. Fassett Pacheco, California Father
082 Jul 10 1861 Chittenden San Fran Mother
083 Sep 29 1861 Chittenden San Fran Mother
084 Oct 16 1861 Chittenden San Fran (Capt.) John Fassett
085 Oct 18 1861 Chittenden San Fran Mother
086 Nov 19 1861 Chittenden San Fran Mother
087 Nov 30 1861 H. H. Fassett Pacheco, Cal Mother
088 Feb 6 1862 H. H. Fassett Pacheco, Cal Mother/Miss Mary Fassett
089 Mar 2 1862 Harris Pacheco, Cal Mother/Father/Sister
090 Mar 5 1862 Chittenden Gulf of California Mother
091  Mar 9 1862   Clara Germain  + Ann  Pacheco    Grandma  + Mother 
092 Mar 10/12 1862 H. H. Fassett Pacheco, Cal John Fassett  + Mary
093 Mar 18 1862 Chittenden San Fran Mother
094 Apr 30 1862 N. C. Fassett San Fran Mother
095 May 13/18 1862 H. H. Fassett Pacheco, Cal Mother
096 May 15 1862 Chittenden San Fran Mother
097 Jun 13 1862 N. C. Fassett San Fran John Fassett
098 Jun 30 1862 Chittenden San Fran Mother
099 Aug 11 1862 Chittenden San Fran Mother
100 Sep 19 1862 Chittenden San Fran John Fassett
101 Sep 21 1862 Chittenden San Fran Mother
102 Oct 3 1862 N. C. Fassett San Fran Father
103 Nov 19 1862 Chittenden San Fran Mother


The originals of these letters are kept by Roger P. Kohin, 11 Berwick Street, Worcester, MA 01602, (+1-508)-756-7713

Revised 6/22/2008