R62160, 16May50, Bernard E. Ransing (E) FROM STOCKTON TO MOKELUMNE, THE GOLDEN GOAL, by Harry C. Peterson.

Robert F. Stockton of the American Navy and Francis B. Ogden, the American Consul at Liverpool, Ericsson began to consider a visit to the United States for the purpose of building, under Stockton's auspices, a vessel for the United States Navy.

Intelligence of the insurrection having reached Commodore Stockton at San Francisco and Lieutenant-Colonel Frémont at Sacramento, both took immediate steps to check its progress and to punish the offenders.

Commodore Stockton with a small fleet was on the Pacific coast.