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[ Mendocino Historical Review Vol. 2 No. 4 page 3 (Autumn 1975) ]


                            THE EARLIEST SETTLERS


Nathaniel Smith, known as "Nigger Nat," may also have arrived on Captain Fletcher's ship. He
built a cabin near that of Portagee Frank and the two of them began trapping and hunting for
game to supply the sawmill cookhouse at Albion and Big River.