Doak, Thomas

Thomas Doak was one of the first non-Spanish-speaking residents of California. He was a hunter-trapper (British? American?) who came to San Francisco by sea in 1816 and moved south to Branciforte, then up into the Summit Road area in 1850.

• The Tragedy of Martina Castro, p.113. A short item claims that a Summit resident named Daniel Post was actually "Thomas Doakes" [sic], then gives the info copied above. The source given for this info is:
• Michael Payne, A Howling Wilderness, 1978. The date of Doak's California arrival is from:
• Hubert H. Bancroft, History of California. Santa Cruz County arrivals within Bancroft's California list were extracted and published in:
• Leon Rowland, Santa Cruz: The Early Years (1980), p.55 and 107.