In a message dated 2/22/2006 3:05:38 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
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became  the tannery vats of the Roosevelt's (the
former President Franklin Delano  Roosevelt side, 


Now that is interesting, as Captain Henry Delano Fitch mastered a sailing  
ship to California during the Mexican hide trade to San Diego and ended up  
eloping with a 16-year old Californio girl. The two set for Peru, where upon he  
converted to Catholicism and married the teen in a Catholic Church. Upon return 
 to San Diego, the outraged (and jealous) government official had to accept 
the  fact this 6-foot 6-inch American (renamed Enrique Delano Fitch) was a 
Mexican  citizen. During the early years of the American era, he was poisoned in a 
bar in  San Francisco and buried next to his daughter, Natalia Fitch, in a  
leather-covered coffin in the floor of the Catholic Chapel at the Presidio de  
San Diego in 1849. I had the honor of helping expose his coffin and remains  
during the summer of 1969 at the Royal Presidio San Diego Field School, San  
Diego State. Descendants swore he was related to President Franklin Delano  
Roosevelt. Now it looks like the oral history was correct.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.