Marin-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Bourne, Peter L. 1826 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Peter L. Bourne. Was born in Barnstable county, Massachusetts, April 30, 1826,
and was the second child of Barnabas and Diadema Ewer Bourne. He remained at
home with his parents till he was twelve years of age, when he shipped on board
an Atlantic seaboard coaster. He followed this till 1843, when he shipped on
board the ship "Rodman," Captain Alex. Newcomb, master, for a sperm whaling
cruise to the Yellow sea, and was absent about three years and seven months.
After spending four months at home, he again shipped, this time on board the
bark "Dryade," bound on a Pacific whaling voyage. After cruising off the coast
of Peru for two years the ship put in at Tolquagana, Chili, and the crew broke
up. The ship was chartered for San Francisco, and Mr. Bourne reshipped on her,
and arrived in that port September 20, 1849. After lying in the harbor for four
months, the ship returned to Chili, Mr. Bourne going with her, and another
whaling expedition was undertaken. He shipped on her as second officer. After
the vessel had been out thirty days all hands refused to do duty, and the ship
put into a port of the Tahiti Islands, and the refractory crowd turned loose
among the natives. She then went to Pieta and Tom Peru, and took a cargo of
vegetables for San Francisco, arriving again in 1851. He then made a three
months' trip to the mines, working at Horse Shoe bar, American river. Being
forced by sickness to abandon the mines he returned to San Francisco, and
shipped as first officer on the schooner "Excell," Captain John Corwin, master,
bound for Tahiti. He continued in this trade for three years, when he left the
vessel and came to Bolinas. This was in November, 1853, and in 1854 he paid his
old home a visit, returning to Bolinas in September of that year. Captain Bourne
has sailed several vessels from Bolinas to San Francisco, among which may be
mentioned the sloop "Falmouth," schooner "Alexana," and in partnership with S.
Clark he had the schooner "Convoy," of which he was master for three or four
years. In 1866 he came to his present farm, which now consists of seven hundred
and ninety-seven acres. Captain Bourne is a man of sterling traits of character,
and a worthy citizen. He was married July 5, 1861, to Miss Mary P. Smith,
daughter of William and Josephine Saiz Smith, who was born in Marin county.
Their children are:—Zenas B., born October 30, 1862; Isabella, born October 31,
1864; Ulysses, born August 28, 1868; Frederick, born June 14, 1873; Peter, born
August 6, 1875; Henrietta J., born August 8, 1879.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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