Person:Samuel Kelsey (5)

Samuel Kelsey

• Kelsey, Samuel - 1st Lieutenant - Served under Captain Henry Ford of the Bear's Cavalry.

24 Jun 1846 - Present at the Battle of Olompali

1.   Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of California. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah).

   Bancroft's Bear Flagger List
   In what he claimed was the first listing of the 32 or 33 men who took Sonoma on 6/14/1846, Hubert H. Bancroft lists the following names:
   
   “Ezekiel Merritt, Wm B. Ide, John Grigsby, Robert Semple, H. L. Ford, Wm Todd, Wm Fallon, Wm Knight, Wm Hargave, Sam. Kelsey, G. P. Swift, Sam. Gibson, W. W. Scott, Benj. Dewell, Thos Cowie, Wm B. Elliott, Thos Knight, Horace Sanders, Henry Booker, Dav. Hudson, John Sears, and most of the following: J. H. Kelly, C. C. Griffith, Harvey Porterfield, John Scott, Ira Stebbins, Marion Wise, Ferguson, Peter Storm, Pat. McChristian, Bartlett Vines, Fowler, John Gibbs, Andrew Kelsey, and Benj. Kelsey."

2.   Warner, Barbara R., and Sonoma Valley Historical Society. The men of the California Bear Flag Revolt and their heritage. (Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark Co., c1996).