Fannie Clayton

“ Mr. Wood boarded at my father's in New Lancaster, Illinois, and afterwards with us at Milford, Missouri. He was a well educated man from New England and New York, and we called him a Yankee. In 1843 he came to Oregon with my brother Ninian, joining the immigration at Saint Joseph, Missouri. He worked at Hunt's mill, and went to the California mines. ”

“ They also feared that there would be a general Indian uprising. It was also generally understood that the traders profited greatly by the trade of the Indians, and even by the murder or robberies they committed; and when much dust was brought by them to the town suspicion at once arose that miners had been killed. Merchants at Coloma at that time were, as Mrs. Clayton remembers them, Hastings, Shannon, and Hampton the latter a dry goods dealer, who, however, favored the execution of the guilty Indians; Marshall opposed the execution. Sutter, at Sutter's Fort, also favored the Indians. ”

“ The merchants of Coloma generally opposed the execution of the Indians, and in this they were supported by many of the Eastern men just arrived, who looked upon the methods of the Oregonians as too severe. ”