Henry Delano Fitch 
Henry Delano was born on May 7th, 1799 in Charlestown, New Hampshire. Henry Delano's father was Bariah C. Fitch and his mother was Sarah Delano. His paternal grandparents were Jonathon Gorham Fitch and Elizabeth Coffin; his maternal grandparents were Thomas Delano Jr. and Elizabeth Swain. He was an only child. He died at the age of 48 on February 15th, 1848 in San Diego, California, New Spain. He was buried in February 1848 in San Diego, California, New Spain.General Notes
Born in Boston, Massachuetts, Came to California in 1826. Henry Delano Fitch, was the first white man to lay claim to the land and town called Healdsburg, first arrived in lower California on the Mexican trading brig, Maria Ester, in 1825. He soon became the first permanent American settler in San Diego.
Sources:
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History of California vol. IV, pgs. 706, 707.
Ogden, Adele, "Captain Henry Fitch, San Diego Merchant, 1825-1849", in The Journal of San Diego History, Fall, 1981, pg.s 238. 239.
Miller, Ronald Lee, Henry Delano Fitch: A Yankee Trader in California: 1826-1849 (Dissertation, History, Univ. of Southern California, 1972), pgs. 3, 6, 7, 9.
Finley, Ernest Latimer, History of Sonoma County, 1937, pg. 62. Miller, Henry Delano Fitch, pg. 7.
Henry Delano Fitch: A Yankee Trader in California 1826-1849, Ronald Lee Miller, Dissertation, 1972 Page: 219
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Captain Henry Delano Fitch 6 (Sally5, Thomas4, Thomas3, Jonathan2, Philippe1) is generally regarded as being the 1st American settler 1 in San Diego. Lacking money to build a schoolhouse, classes were held in Henry Fitch's store on Calhoun Street until late 1854. Source: San Diego Historical Society
"On 2 December 1837, 'Don Jose Francisco Snook and Dona Maria Antonia Alvarado' were married in San Diego's presidio chapel, Fr. Vicente Pasqual Oliva officiating. 'Witnesses were Don Juan Bandini and Henry Fitch and others who were present.' The newlyweds made their home in an adobe casa next door to the Fitch house at the west end of the plaza. It stood on property later designated as Lots 1 and 2 of Block 46 on Fitch Street and a corner of Block 32."
Captain Snook used his $3,000 to purchase the English schooner, El Ayacucho. Not to be confused with the brig that first brought him to California, this was a 97-ton schooner owned by Scot mariner James McKinlay. On 2 October 1839 Snook took possession of the ship and applied to juez de paz Henry Fitch for 'a document that in some way legalizes the sale.'
But McKinlay retained ownership when Snook changed his mind--perhaps because he was thinking of 'stopping on shore'" and opening a shop in San Diego. Henry Fitch owned a store there and wanted the captain to become a partner, but Snook had misgivings:
'If I take your shop, I have no capital to pay you my half of the first cost of the goods, and I shall be in your debt and perhaps the half gains that I shall get will not pay.'
Instead, as he wrote in a letter to Abel Stearns, 'Since I came down I have taken into my head to see if I cannot sell a lettle groge.' As a result, in November of 1839, Henry Fitch took over as captain of the Catalina, and Snook became the proprietor of a 'small shop taken from 6 to 7 $ a day poco poco.'" Source: The Journal of San Diego History, Fall 1997, Volume 43, Number 4, by Ruth Collings
"A survey was performed under the supervision of the first City Attorney, Henry Fitch. The year was 1845. Hitch was directed to measure the land from the center of town square in what is now known as 'Old Town.' A surveyor was to set the boundary of the grant one league in each direction. Because town square lied so close to the Pacific Ocean and he desired to assure San Diego's full land entitlement, Hitch extended the boundaries of the survey on the other three sides. The result was a triangular shaped piece extending from Division Street at the northerly boundary of present day National City northward to just south of the present city limits of Del Mar. The easterly boundary was a slightly bowed line which runs along present day Interstate 805. Despite the fact the San Diego was only entitled to four square leagues of land, Hitch prepared a survey which encompassed eleven square leagues, or about 48,556 acres." Source: San Diego Retrospect
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.02 Aug 1649 in Saybrook, Conn. d.10 Nov 1727
- b. in Nantucket, Mass.
- b.1654 d.1684
- b.30 Aug 1713 d.04 May 1785
- b.20 Aug 1660 d.1699 in Nantucket, Mass.
- b.09 Sep 1683 d.27 May 1736
- b.09 Sep 1665
- b.03 Sep 1740 in Nantucket, Massachussets d.03 Feb 1814
- b.1621 in Benefield, Northamptonshire, England d.1674 in Yarmouth near Swansea
- b.21 Oct 1667 in Barnstable, Mass. d.07 Aug 1750 in Nantucket, Mass
- b.1625 in Plymouth, Mass. d.13 Oct 1683 in Barnstable, Mass.
- d.12 Apr 1787 in Nantucket, Mass.
- b.08 Jun 1635 in Lynn, Essex Co. Mass. d.02 Apr 1718 in Nantucket, Mass
- b.10 Oct 1677 in Nantucket, Mass d.~23 Sep 1748 in Nantucket, Mass
- b.01 Nov 1656 in Nantucket, Mass. d.21 Nov 1744
- b.27 Nov 1771 in Nantucket, Massachussets d.1825 in Charlestown, New Hampshire
- b.11 May 1652 in Newbury,Essex Co.,Massachusetts d.1734
- b.15 Apr 1695 d.Apr 1729 in At Sea
- b.1652 d.1724
- b.1713 in of Boston, Masss.
- b.01 May 1662 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma d.1 Feb 1740/1741 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Ma
- b.25 Aug 1698 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Ma d.27 Nov 1763 in Newport, Ri
- b.10 Nov 1675 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Ma d.01 Jul 1739 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Ma
- b.3 Mar 1740/1741 in Nantucket, Massachussets d.23 Feb 1795
- b.Jun 1635 in London, England d. in Boston, Mass.
- b.< 1664 in Hingham or Boston, Mass. d.28 Aug 1740
- b.19 Jan 1640/1641 d.3 Feb 1697/1698 in Boston, Mass.
- b.14 Aug 1712 in Boston, Mass. d.06 Jan 1780
- b.07 May 1799 in Charlestown, New Hampshire d.15 Feb 1848 in San Diego, California, New Spain
- b.07 Dec 1602 in Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands d.19 Dec 1681 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Mass.
- b.1647 in Duxbury Plymouth Co. Ma. d.23 Dec 1720 in Duxbury Plymouth Co. Ma.
- b.1613 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co. Mass. d.< 1657 in Plymouth Co. Mass.
- b.10 May 1704 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts d.>28 Oct 1778 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
- b.Jan 1622/1623 in England d.Oct 1667 in Plymouth, Mass.
- b.20 Feb 1657/1658 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma. d.06 Nov 1727 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
- b.10 Nov 1622 in Southwark, Surrey, England d.24 Nov 1700 in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- b.12 Aug 1729 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts d.10 Nov 1799 in Nantucket, Massachussets
- b.08 Apr 1595 in Boxgrove, Sussex, England d.1681 in Middletown, Newport Co., Ri
- b.1667 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England d.23 Apr 1724 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Ma
- b.10 Sep 1623 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England d.> 1670 in Newport, Ri
- b.23 Jan 1702/1703 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts d. in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
- b. in Gloucestershire, England d.1684/1685 in St. Philip and Jacob, Bristal, Somersetshire, England
- b.~ 1654 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Ma d.~ 1730
- b.1774 in Nantucket, Massachusetts (Boston) d.1847 in Charlestown, New Hampshire
- b.~ 1633 in Berkshire?, England d.1715/1717 in Nantucket,Massachusetts
- b.01 Sep 1664 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma d.29 Jan 1738/1739 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma
- d.1714 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma
- b.Aug 1703 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma d.14 Feb 1785 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma
- b.~ 1618 in Norwich, County Norfolk, England d.1690 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma
- b. in Martha's Vineyard, Ma d.06 Jun 1739 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma
- b. in England d.1704 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma
- b.20 Oct 1729 in Nantucket, Massachussets d.29 May 1811 in Charlestown, New Hampshire
- b.1620 in St Butolph, Bishops Gate, London, Eng d.23 Mar 1676/1677 in King Phillip's War, American Colonies
- b.1661 in Rochester,Plymouth,Ma d.<20 Jun 1728 in Sandwich, Ma
- b.11 Apr 1624 in Billingshurst, Sussex England d.24 Jun 1692 in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma
- b.07 Sep 1703 in Rochester, Ma
- b.~ 1636 in Plymouth Colony,Plymouth County,Massachusetts,New England d.11 Nov 1715 in Harwich,Barnstable County,Massachusetts,New England
- b.1668 in Rochestor,Plymouth,Ma
- b.10 Feb 1639 in Yarmouth,Barnstable County,Massachusetts,New England d.22 Sep 1688
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Henry Delano and Maria Antonia Natalia Elijia were married in a religious ceremony on July 3rd, 1829 in Valparaiso, Chile. They had two daughters named Ysabella Fitch and Maria Anita Fitch.
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Children
Maria Anita Fitch Carrillo
Maria Anita Fitch was born on April 13th, 1848 in San Diego, Califorina. She died at the age of 84 on February 26th, 1933 in Healdsberg, California.
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