Source: The Annals Of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, M.D. & James Nisbet. 1855
D. Appleton & Co. San Francisco, pg. 574-575.
THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. [1851]
"Resolved, That we, members of the Vigilance Committee, remark with surprise the invidious verdict rendered by the coroner' s jury, after their inquest upon the body of Jenkins, alias Simpton, after we have all notified to the said jury and the public that we were all participators in the trial and execution of said Jenkins. We desire that the public will understand that Capt. E. Wakeman, W. H. Jones, James C. Ward, Edward A. King, T. K. Battelle, Benjamin Reynolds, J. S. Eagan, J. C. Derby and Samuel Brannan, have been unnecessarily picked from our numbers, as the coroner' s jury have had full evidence of that fact, that all the undersigned have been equally implicated and are equally responsible with their above-named associates."
S. E. Woodworth
Fred. A. Woodworth
Francis E. Webster
William N. Thompson
Clinton Winton
James B. Huie
B. Frank Hillard
S. W. Haight
George H. Howard
Caleb Hyatt
Samuel R. Curwen
James F. Curtis
L. Hulsemann
A. G. Randall
S. Brannan
George J. Oakes
R. D. W. Davis
William H. Jones
Edward A. King
Jesse Southam
T. H. Robinson
George R. Ward
C. L. Wilson
W. H. Taber
Isaac Bluxome, Jr.
Lathrop L. Bullock
John W. Rider
Theodore Kuhlman
Joseph E. Dale
Julius D. Schultz
J. P. Stevens
Thomas McCahill
William Peake
Jonas Minturn
Lloyd Minturn
F . O. Wakeman
William Forst
John W. Jackson
James Shinaler
J. W. Rickman
W. S. Bromley
A. Ottenheimer
B. H. Davis
P. Frothingham
E. E. Schenck
George Austinworn
E. Botcher
Samuel Marx
Daniel J. Thomas, Jr.
J. E. Farwell
Jacob P. Leese
Edgar Wakeman
A. Markwell
Samuel A. Sloane
W. B. Lucas
Henry M. Naglee
J. Thompson Huie
A. Wheelwright
C. F. Fourgeaud
A. Jackson McDuffie
P. D. Headley
S. B. Marshall
H. Hazeltine
W. Iken
George D. Lambert
John P. Half
Joseph T. Harmer
J. Seligman
H. F. Von Lenyerk
J. E. Derby
T. J. West
William T. Coleman
J. S. Clark
C. H. Clark
Herman R. Haste
H. S. Teschemacker
William A. Howard
Henry Dreshchfeldt
James Ryan
William Browne
Robert Wells
H. D. Evans
John J. Bryant
E. Kirtus
Thomas N. Deblois
E. Gorham
Frank S. Mahoney
James C. Ward
R. S. Watson
George Mellus
J. D. Stevenson
Chas. R. Bond
B. B. Arrowsmith
S. E. Teschermacker
C. H. Brinley
J. W. Salmon
Benjamin Reynolds
A. W. Macpherson
John S. Eagan
J. C. L. Wadsworth
William Hart
George M. Garwood
R. S. Lanot
A. C. Tubbs
J. R. Curtis
A. H. Hill
William H. Graham
B. E. Babcock
J. A. Fisher
Hartford Joy
Joshua Hilton
John F. Osgood
James Pratt
E. Kemp
William G. Badger
J. Mead Huxley
S. J. Stabler
George Clifford
Charles Soule Jr.
Robert II. Belden
N. Smith
Randolph M. Cooley
Chas. H. Hill
J. Neal Jr.
F. A. Atkinson
Charles Miller
John O. Earle
N. T. Thompson
N. Reynolds Davis
Gabriel Winter
Otis P. Sawyer
William Meyer
W. N. Hostin
John G. McKaraher
Eugene Hart
John Raynes
J. C. Treadwell
John H. Watson
William Burling
F. Quincey Coale
Thomas N. Cazneau
George W. Douglass
William C. Graham
Chas. H. Vail
Charles Minturn
Howard Cunningham
Charles L. Case
Charles Moore
James R. Doff
E. M. Earle
J. L. Van Bokkelen
George N. Blake
Dewitt Brown
Edward F. Baker
F. Argenti
Stephen Payran
C. Spring
William J. Sherwood
W. L. Hobson
E. W. Travers
W. H. Tilling hast
William Langerman
J. F. Hutton
Thos. K. Battelle
Horace Morrison
Augustus Belknap
F. L. Dana
Horatio S. Gates
O. P. Sutton
Jer. Spaulding
A. J. Ellis
John M. Coughlin
Samuel Moss, Jr.
C. O. Brewster
Charles L. Wood
William Tell
James Dow
E. W. Crowell
A. H. Gildemeester
Samuel S. Philipps
Chas. Del Vecchio
Joseph Post
Jas. King of William
These were signatures of some of the richest, most influential, orderly and respectable citizens of San Francisco. They show, however, only a small portion of the people who subsequently joined the Vigilance Committee, since every day was increasing its numbers by the assession of the best inhabitants of the place.
Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton.