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My great-grandfather, William Moyle, went to California as a miner in 1858. He was an experienced Cornish miner and went with William Rapson, Joseph Mitchell and John Williams who were also Cornishmen. In the brief history he left for the family he said:
"Took a contract for tunneling in Rabbit Creek, Plumas County, for three and a half years, and Moyle, Rapson, Mitchell and Williams were very successful. He went from there to Richmond Hill, California, located a claim and bought a claim, each claim being one hundred feet and run to the summit."
Does anyone know if there are records or historical materials about the mining claims bought in California in the 1860s? William Moyle and William Rapson returned to Wisconsin in 1864 - probably because Rapson had left his wife and six children there while they were mining in California for six years.
I don't know what happened to Mitchell and Williams.
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