History of California, Volume IV, Part 66

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers
Number of Pages: 820

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tions of cattle-thieves, were prosperous as far as the easy gaining of a living was concerned; that is as far as they cared to prosper.

Jabonera, asked for by Santiago Martinez for himself and 20 N. Mex. families discontented withi S. Bernardino, but decided to be private property. Leg. Rec., MS., iv. 112, 23-4. Jurupa, purchased by B. D. Wilson, for $1,000 per league as he states in Hayes' Doc., MS., 11. * Matzultaquea, 4 1., gr. 1843, Ramon Carrillo, J. B. Frisbie cl. Merced (old mission), 1 1., 1844, Cas:Ida Soto; F. P. F. Temple et al. cl. Muscupiabe, 1 1., 1843, Michael White, who was cl. Miguel, 3 1., 1842, Juan Avila et al., who were cl. Potrero de Felipe Lugo, 1845, Teodoro Romero et al .; Jorge Moriilo cl. Potrero Grande, 1 1., 1845, Manuel Antonio; J. Matías Sanchez cl. Providencia, 1 1., 1843, Vicente de la Ossa; D. W. Alexander and F. Mellus cl. Puente, 48,000 acres, 1845, John Rowland and Wm Workman, who were cl. The grant was really obtained in 1842, P. Duran protesting in a letter to the Mex. govt against the governor's sale of this and other mission ranches. Doc. Ilist. Cal., MS., iv. 1131-2; Arch. Sta B., MS., vi. 81-3; Sta B. Arch., MS., 39. Rincon de la Brea, 11., 1841, Gil Ibarra, who was cl. This rancho seems to have been called Cañada de la Brea originally, and the padres feared an intention to make it include the Riconada de la Puente. Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., vi. 6-7; Los Ang. Arch., MS., ii. 56-7. Rincon de los Bueyes, : 1., 1821, confirmed in 1843 to Bernardo Higuera; Fran. Higuera et al. cl. *San Antonio, 4,000 varas, 1842, Nicholas A. Den; R. S. Den cl. San Antonio, 1 1., 1831 (misprint for 1841 ?), María Rita Valdés, who was cl. La Cañada, 8 1., 1842, José del Cármen Lugo et al., who were cl. San Bernardino, 2 1., 1843, Ignacio Coronel; J. R. Scott and Ben Hayes cl. * San Emigdio, 4 1., 1842, José Antonio Dominguez; F. Dominguez et al. cl. San Francisquito, 2 1., 1845, Henry Dalton, who was cl. San Gabriel Mission. The mission lands were asked for in 1845 by Jose Ant. Garcia for 33 N. Mex. settlers, but his petition was not granted. Leg. Rec., MS., iv. 50. For grants of small lots near S. Gabriel in 1843-5, and finally confirmed to the grantees, sce nos 408. 415, 417-19, 424-5, 448, 466-8, 489 of the land com. cases. San José de Buenos Aires, 1 1., 1843, Máximo Alanis; B. D. Wilson cl. San Pascual, 33 1., 1843, M. Garfias, who was cl. San Pedro cannot be attached for Dominguez's debts, as it was a colonization grant for his family, 1841. Los Ang. Arch., MS., ii. 98-9. Santa Ana del Chino, sce Chino. Santa Anita, 3 1., 1841, 1845, Perfecto Hugo Reid; Henry Dalton cl. Santa Ger- trudis, no date (part of the main rancho), A. M. Nieto; Z. Sanchez Colima cl. Tajanta, 1 1., 1843, Anastasio Avila; Enrique Avila cl. Tejon, 22 1., 1843, J. A. Aguirre and Ignacio del Valle, who were cl. Trabuco, 51., 1841, 1846, Sant. Argüello et al., John Forster, who was cl. Yucaipa, refused to an applicant in 1841, as included in the tract of the S. Bernardino colony. Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., vi. 79.

See record of cases io Hoffman's Reports. See nos 376-7, for grants of small tracts to J. M. Ramirez in 1841 and Vicente de la Ossa in 1842, conf. to Daniel Sexton, locality not specified. In Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., viii. 2, is a list of some 50 ranchos as classified in 1844 for supervision by the 7 cela- dores. The ranchos of this list not mentioned (or at least not by the same names) io my lists of 1831-45 are Los Mejicanos (in the S. Bern. region), Rodeo de Los Angeles, Palos Verdes (granted in 1846), Rancho Nuevo, La Mesa, La Osa (probably Providencia), Pacífico, Juan Perez (perhaps Paso de Bartolo), and Juan Pablo y Peralta. On the contrary the following of my lists do not appear in this: Bolsa Chica, Castac, Cienegas, Escorpion, Habra, Merced, Ojo de Agua, Paso de Bartolo (Perez ?), Providencia (La Osa ?), S. Antonio, S. José Buenos Aires, Sta Anita, Sauzal Redondo, Tejon, Tujunga, and Virgenes. See also Los Ang. Co. Ilist., passim, for much information on rancho history at different periods.

In 1841 some steps were taken in 1841 to assign the 4 leagues of land he-

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San Pedro continued to be visited each year by many vessels of the trading fleet, offering rich cargoes of inland produce to compensate for its deficiencies as a port, which were fully appreciated by all who had occasion to anchor here. An auxiliary juez at the Dominguez rancho exercised a kind of authority over the region; John Forster was made captain of the port in 1843; and a collector of municipal taxes was appointed by the ayuntamiento of Los Angeles the next year. In 1841 the Hudson's Bay Company pro- posed an establishment here that was never founded. Mofras touched here in 1841-2, including in his work a chart of the port. The Tasso's captain was arrested here in connection with the Jones invasion in 1842; and in 1843 Commodore Jones landed here on his way to the city with no warlike intent. In 1844 the Angelinos tried to obtain a receptor for San Pedro, which they declared to be a much better harbor than that at Santa Bárbara; and in 1845 the assembly took steps to make it a puerto menor with a receptor at a salary of $500, like San Francisco. Here the exiled governor, Micheltorena, embarked on the Don Quixote in this last year of the period.

Father Estenega remained at his post at San Ga- briel throughout the decade, having charge not only of spiritual affairs but generally of temporal interests as well.14 He was aided by Juan Perez and later

longing to the pueblo, but little or nothing was accomplished. Dept. St. Pap., Ben., P. y J., MS., iv. 64. March 4, 1844, action of the ayunt. on town lands which if not cultivated by the owner may be denounced; the govt asked to authorize a tax on the lands; lands granted by the ayunt. cannot be sold. Los Ang. Arch., MS., v. 126-7. March 11th, holders of lots having no title must present themselves. Id., v. 131. 1845. Machado's complaints that the ayunt. bad despoiled him of certain lands. Leg. Rec., MS., iv. 56, 63-9.

11 San Gabriel affairs. 1841. Juan C. Perez majordomo under the padre. The prefect complained that the place had become a brothel, blaming both padre and majordomo. Jan., mission cattle 805 head. Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., iii. 72. Feb., Estenega complains of Perez' mismanagement and Perez of the padre's distrust. The prefect on investigation decides that the major- domo lias been at fault, taking $2S) more than his salary. Dept. St. Pap., MS., v. 49; Id., Ben., P. & J., iv. 8-10. May, Esténega complains of en- croachments of citizens at Mision Vieja, who are therefore ordered to come to the town. Id., vi. 22-3, 29. June, complaints that two persons have car- ried away beams and bricks from S. Bernardino. Id., Ang., vi. 36. July,

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Manuel Olivera as majordomos; but there was no semblance of prosperity, and a constant if not very rapid decrease of mission property, the padre himself going so far as to sell small tracts of land and super- fluous effects, though he bitterly complained of the granting of mission ranchos, and was unwilling to give up the estates in 1845 when their renting was resolved on by the government. The final inventory is unfortunately missing, so that the amount of live- stock and other property is not known; but we may be sure the remnant was very small. At the end of

cook and vaquero discharged on account of poverty of the mission. Dept. St. P.p., MS., v. 59. Oct., list of effects received and expend. from Feb. The chief items of the former are 100 bbls wine, 47 hides; aud of the latter 130 bbls wine and 54 hides. 300 fau. maize to he harvested in Nov. St. Pap. Miss., MS., x. 2. Nov., arrival of Rowland and Workman from N. Mex., who the next year got the mission rancho of La Puente. This vol., p. 277, 331.

1842. Perez still majordomo. Picture of the mission in Robinson's Life in Cal. Mofras, Explor., i. 320, gives the pop. as 500, being followed hy Gleason and others. Francisco Figueroa attempts to sell a piece of land ceded by the padre to his brother in 1834, but is prevented by the prefect. Los Ang. Arch., MS., ii. 182-4; Dept. St. Pap .. MS., v. 65-7.

1843. Perez ordered March Ist to give up the administration of property to P. Esténega. Dept. Rec., MS., xiii. 42; this vol., p. 309, 371. Hugo Reid was encargado de justicia for a district including the mission from this year. For grants of lots near the mission in 1843-5 to Manuel Olivera, Próspero Va- lenzuela, Emilio Joaquin, Serafin de Jesus, Arno Maube, J. Alvitre, A. Valen- zuela, Michael White, Ramon Valencia, Francisco Sales, Manuel Sales Tasion, and Felipe, see list in Hoffman's Reports, nos 408, 415, 417-19, 424-5, 448, 466-8. 489.

1844. P. Esténega assisted by the presbyter Antonio M. Jimenez. The estate in bad condition with 300 Indians according to an original report in Pico, Doc., MS., i. 14. May, a subscription taken for fands to pay for re- pairing the church bells. Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., viii. 17.

1845. Juan Perez again appears as majordomo, hat in Oct. is succeeded by Manuel Olivera. Id., 53; Dept. Rec., MS., xiv. 63. April, complaints of scandalous robberies of stock by Indiaus and vecinos. Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., viii. 40-1. May, P. Estenega reprimanded for having sold land to Dalton, and admits having disposed of some effects of no use to the Ind. Id., Ben., P. & J., ii. 119; Arch. Sta B., MS., x. 187-8; this vol., p. 548. May 7th, José A. Garcia, for himself and 33 New Mexicans, asks for a grant of the mission lands, which is refused. Leg. Rec., MS., iv. 50. June-July, Andrés Pico and Juan Manso, comisionados to take inventories for renting the mis- sion; have trouble with Esténega, who refuses to surrender the estate, but yields on an order from Duran, and the property is turned over before July Tth. This vol., p. 549-50. The inventory is not extant. July, Hugo Reid reports the Ind. as alarmed at a statement by Juan Perez that they are to be kept in greater subjection than before and will never be free; whereupon the administrator (Olivera?) is authorized to assure them that the govt has no desire to keep them in slavery. Dept. St. Pap., MS., vi. 173; Dept. Rec., MS., xiv. 63.

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the half-decade there were but 250 Indians, probably less, remaining in the community.

The branch establishment at San Bernardino seems not to have been reoccupied by a neophyte commu- nity after the Indian troubles in 1834. The rancho was granted to the Lugos in 1842, who sold to the Mormons nine years later. In 1841, however, a colony of New Mexicans settled in the same region under the leadership of Lorenzo Trujillo, obtaining a tract of the Jurupa rancho from Bandini and calling their establishment Agua Mansa, or San Salvador. Nothing is known of events in the early annals of this colony; but in 1845 the settlers became discontented and made an effort to obtain lands nearer the city.15

Padre Blas Ordaz was the minister at San Fer- nando, and manager of the estate from 1843, Villavi- cencio's administration having continued to April of that year. There are no statistics to show the rate of decadence in property and population; but I sup- pose there may have been 300 ex-neophytes in the com- munity at the last. Ordaz claimed to have achieved a degree of success during his exclusive management; and that this establishment was comparatively pros- perous is shown by the fact that it was one of the few whose financial embarrassments did not prevent its being leased on favorable terms. Andrés Pico and Juan Manso became the lessees in December 1845, agreeing to pay an annual rent of $1,120.16

15 On the early history of S. Bernardino see Hayes' Em. Notes, 642-3, 650-1; S. Bern. Times, July 8, 1876; S. Bern. Co. Ilist., 83-4; Frazee's S. Bern., 13-18. Nov. 1841, an applicant for Yucaipa is told that it belongs to the tract of the colony. Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., vi. 79. May 1843, application for S. Gabriel mission lands. Leg. Rec., MS., iv. 50. Aug., ap- plication for La Jabonera. Id., 112, 23 4. Both efforts were successful.

16 IS41. Nov., statistics of the year showing as the total of receipts for 11 mouths, $5,834; expend., $3,507; inventory of effects on hand Oct. 31st, $3,20S. The items are as follows: silver $20, 137 hides $205, 44 arr. tallow $53, 11 arr. lard $22, 98 bbls. brandy $4,500, 29 bbls. wine $580, 15 fan, beans $37, 300 fan. corn $600, 10 sides of leather $28, soap $160. St. Pap., Miss., MS., 22-4. 1842, receipts for April $1,134, expend. $1,998. Id., xi. 47. Mofras, Explor., i. 320, 360, found some signs of prosperity and gives the pop. as 400. Aug. 8th, alcalde orders that if the salina is in condition S. Fernando be permitted to take a little salt. Valle, Doc., MS., 60. Discovery of gold on land formerly belonging to this mission. This vol., p. 296, 620-1. Gov. Michel-

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SANTA BÁRBARA.

Says Sir George Simpson, whose visit was in 1842: "Santa Barbara is somewhat larger than Monterey, containing about 900 inhabitants, while the one is just as much a maze without a plan as the other. Here, however, anything of the nature of resemblance ends, Santa Bárbara in most respects being to Monte- rey what the parlor is to the kitchen. Among all the settlements as distinguished from the rascally pueblos, Santa Bárbara possesses the double advantage of be- ing both the oldest and the most aristocratic. The houses are not only well finished at first, but are throughout kept in good order; and the whitewashed adobes and the painted balconies and verandas form a pleasing contrast with the overshadowing roofs blackened by means of bitumen, the produce of a neighboring spring. Nor is the superiority of the inhabitants less striking than that of their houses." Then follows a eulogy of the fair Barbareñas.17 For an estimate of the gain in white population, 900 in 1840, there is but slight basis in contemporary records, but as no circumstances are known to prevent a consider- able increase, I put the number at 1,000 at the end of the half-decade. Meanwhile the christianized, semi- civilized, or ex-neophyte Indians had decreased from 1,350 to 1,000, of which number only 730 were still living in the ex-mission communities. As in the other clistricts I index and summarize in a note the meagre

torena here on his way north when he hears of Com. Jones' invasion at Mon- terey. Id., 201, 315-16. 1843, temporal management restored to the padre. Id., 359, 371. Ant. F. Coronel and Félix Valdés appointed by the gov. as in- terventores for the transfer April 23d. Coronel, Doc., MS., 227. 1844, report of March ISth, scarcely any live-stock, but some vines. The doc. is unfortu- nately torn so as not to show the pop. Pico, Doc., MS., i. 14. 1845, battle at Cahuenga. This vol., p. 503-10. Exped. organized against Ind. Id., 543. May, P. Ordaz claims to have administered the estate successfully, paying off all the debts and purchasing 120 head of live-stock, besides making other im- provements. Arch. S'a B., MS., x. 187. Renting of the estate by Gov. Pico's orders in Dec. This vol., p. 552-3.

17 Simpson's Narr., i. 379-81. Peirce, Journal, MS., 90, also gives a flatter- ing picture of the place in the same year. Mofras gives the pop. of the pueblo and district as 800. Explor., i. 318, 369-70. In Dept. St. Pap., Ben., P. and J., MS., ii. 14-15, is a list of 56 owners of ranchos, 7 or 8 of whom are foreigners, 4 women, and 2 neophytes.

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array of local occurrences.18 There was nothing to disturb the monotonous tranquillity of existence at this town, unless we note as slight exceptions the festivities attending the bishop's arrival in 1842, a very feeble and short-lived revolt in connection with' the movement against Micheltorena in 1844, and a similar rising of the military against the civil authori- ties in 1845 in the interest of Castro against Pico; but the visits of trading vessels were frequent ; travel- lers by land were always glad to prolong their stay in this hospitable burg; and social diversions were al- ways in order.

The rolls of the presidial company showed a rank and file of 34 to 38 men, involving a nominal expense of $700 to $900 per month, the force actually on duty at the presidio, including inválidos, being from 10 to 15 men, and the actual cost being the varying amount of rations they could get; this in 1841-3, after which there are no definite reports.19 Captain José de la

18 Sta Bárbara affairs. 1841. Headquarters of the otter-hunters in this and following years. This vol., p. 209. 1842. Visits of Simpson, Peirce, Mofras, Sandels, and Com. Jones, which resulted in some descriptive matter in print and MS., with a chart in Mofras' work and views of town and mis- sion in that of Robinson, who left Cal. this year. Id., 218-19, 224, 250, 253, 314, 320, 343-6. Arrival of Bishop García Diego in Jan., his grand reception and grander plans. Id., 332-5. 1843. Generous contributions to the bishop's fund. Id., 372-3. In Robbins' Diary, MS., 1-13, are found the author's weather records from Jan. to March. 1844. The bishop makes a pastoral tour in the north, and returns to Sta B. This vol., p. 427. May. Gov. Micheltorena opens Sta B. to the coasting trade, and José Ant. de la Guerra becomes receptor, acting also as captain of the port. Id., 431-2. Nov., re- volt of 8 men in support of the Monterey revolt against Mieheltorena. Their submission, imprisonment, and pardon. Id., 462, 475-6. Castañares in his letter of Sept. Ist to the Mex. govt, Castañares, Col. Doc., 42, says that Sta B. isles are the resort of smugglers. They should be settled and a presidio established on Sta Cruz. Streeter, Recoll., MS., 20-33, describes his own successful efforts to resist the small-pox by vaccination, and the evil results of impure virus used by 'another doctor.' Davis, Glimpses, MS., 273-4, notes a Shakesperian performance got up by W. D. M. Howard and John C. Jones. 1845. Feb. Micheltorena's army here on the way south. This vol., p. 491, 501. Aug. 10th, election of S compromisarios who on Sept. Ttli choose two electores de partido. Id., 540; Doc. ITist. Cal., MS., iv. 1161; Dept. St. Pap., MS., vi. 49. Nov. Capt. Flores' revolt and arrest of the civil authorities. This vol., p. 540-2. Thomes in his On Land and Sea spins some yarns, all strictly true let us hope, of his sailor-hoy adventures at this port in 1843-5.

19 Military items of Sta Bárbara. Company rosters, pay-rolls, etc., in Dept. St. Pap., B. M., MS., lxxxv. 1, 8, 10; Ixxxvi. 6, 7; Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxvii. passim; Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., iv. 1114-13, 1135-7, 1140; Guerra, Doc.,

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Guerra y Noriega, old, infirm, and discouraged at the governor's apathy in the matter of military reorgani- zation, retired from active service in April 1842, leav- ing the command of the post to Brevet Lieut-colonel Gumesindo Flores, and of the company to Alférez Roberto Pardo. Ignacio del Valle was habilitado to July 1841, followed by Pardo; and José Lugo con- tinned to hold the place of second alférez. Flores and Pardo were in command until 1845.

The sub-prefecture was resigned by Raimundo Car- rillo in January 1841, and though steps were taken and a trio of candidates recommended for the ap- pointment of a successor I find no record of any in- cumbent in 1842-3. On the restoration of the pre- fectures in 1845, Anastasio Carrillo received the appointment in July.20 Municipal affairs were man- aged by a succession of jueces de paz, or alcaldes in 1844-5 during the suppression of the prefecture, as follows: Fernando Tico, Joaquin Carrillo, Juan Ca- marrillo, José M. Covarrubias, and Nicholas A. Den, each aided by a second, or suplente.21 Items connected

MS., passim. Jan. 25, 1842. Flores' appointment as com. Vallejo, Doc., MS., xi. 49-50. April 1st, Guerra y Noriega turns over com. to Flores and Pardo. Id., 219. Capt. José Carrillo (José de la Guerra y Carrillo?) acting as com. in Sept. 1845. Dapt. St. Pap., B. M., MS., lxxxviii. 51. Juan P. Ayala acting in same capacity in same month. Cota, Doc., MS., 17. Jan. 1841. Guerra to gov. on the necessity of increasing the force, and Alvarado's un- favorable reply of Feb. 7th. Guerra, Doc., MS., vi. 12-13. April 9th, Guerra says he had to send a force to Los Angeles on duty 'barefooted and badly equipped.' Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., iv. 1092. July 9, 1842, the com. has ordered the soldiers to retire from service to gain their own living, since there is noth- ing to eat, and the govt will not force the missions to contribute; but 10 men at request of juez are retained to guard prisoners, etc. Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., vi. 129. Lieut Manuel Marquez was here in 1843. Jan. 30, 1841. Due the company since Feb. 1839, $9,008. Doc. Ilist. Cal., MS., iv. 1114-16. Received from missions for 2d half of the year $404. Guerra, Doc., vi. S9. Paid to comp. from the treasury from 1839 to 1842, $10,814. Id. In store March 1842, $259. Id., 90.

20 R. Carrillo's resignation Jan. 15, 1841. Dept. St. Pap., Ben., P. & J., MS., vi. 50. Trio proposed by prefect to gov. Joaquin Carrillo, José A. de la Guerra, and A. M. Ortega. Id., iv. 5; Dept. Rec., MS., xii. 5; Dept. St. Pap. Ang., MS., xii. 45. July 12 or 15, 1845, appointment of A. Carrillo. Id., Ben., P. & J., ii. 84, 17; Dept. Rec., MS., xiv. 64; Sta B. Arch., MS., 55-6. July 4th, the assembly makes the Cuesta de Sta Susana the boundary of the partido. Dept. St. Pap., MS., viii. 35.

21 Pueblo officials and municipal affairs. 1841. Jueces de paz Fernando Ticó and Santiago Lugo, José Moraga síndico, Raimundo Carrillo sec. to Oct., succeeded by Francisco Lopez. Jan. 28th, in reply to the demand of HIST. CAL., VOL. IV. 41

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with the municipal government and administration, though somewhat more numerous and better recorded than in the preceding decade, are of but little moment. A list of some twenty-five private ranchos granted during the five years is appended.22

the prefect for a list of vagrants, the juez replies that there are none in his jurisdiction. Sta B. Arch., MS., 17. March, efforts of prefect to check drunkenness on Sundays. Juez says the cvil is exaggerated, and that his regulations are very effective, though some will buy liquor on Saturday to drink on Sunday. Id., 19; Dept. St. Pap., Any., MS., i. 55; iii. 89. July, a prisoner who has been shut up 9 months for homicide in irons, living on charity, wishes permission to work for food and clothes. Id., vi. 50. Oct., Pedro Ortega kills his wife at Refugio, Miguel Cota being an accomplice. Both arrested. Id., vi. 70.

1842. Jueces de paz Joaquin Carrillo and Antonio MI. Ortega, the latter declining to serve and being replaced by Juan Camarrillo in March. Tax collector Nicholas A. Den. Dec., José M. Lisárraga -- the same man who has been mentioned as a prisoner in 1841-the murderer of Jesus Valdés, has escaped. Sta B. Arch., MS., 43.

1843. Jueces de paz Raimundo Carrillo and Ramon Valdés appointed in Dec. 1842, Dept. St. Pup., Ben. P. & J., MS., iii. 107; but Juan Camarrillo is the justice named in several records; and Joaquin Carrillo in Leg. Rec., MS., iv. 308. Capt. of the port from this year J. A. de la Guerra. Jan., J. J. Warner obtained permission to hunt goats and seals on the Sta B. islands by paying 4 reals for each otter skin and 2 reals for each seal, into the munic. fund, and giving one fourth of the goatskins for the troops. Los Ang. Arch .. MS., ii. 317-27. Case of J. M. Dominguez, accused of stealing cattle, and disagreement between juez and gov. on the subject. Leg. Rec., MS., iv. 309- 10.

1844. Alcaldes Jose M. Covarrubias and Antonio Rodriguez. Janssens, Vida, MS., 177-80.

1843. Alcaldes Nicholas A. Den and Rafael Gonzalez. Agustin Janssens, Vida, MS., 177-80, claims to have been elected, but his opponents tried to annul the election and he retired. July Ist, Juan Felix was killed at Refugio by a neophyte named Manuel. Sta B. Arch., MS., 55; Dept. St. Pap., Ben. P. & J., MS., ii. IS. Sub-prefect to gov. announces certain scandals and the sending of one of the women concerued to her uncle at S. Luis Rey. Id., 171. She had been living with Pedro Ortega, who had heen convicted of killing his wife. Sta B. Arch., MS., 57-9. Aug., the juez tries to break up a monte game at the house of Widow Carmen Ayala, and is somewhat rudely handled by Hilarion Garcia. Id., 59-61.

22 Sta Bárbara ranchos of 1841-5. * Alamo Pintado, I 1., granted in 1843 to Marcelino, María Ant. de la Guerra de Lataillade claimant. Calera, or Pozitas, 1843, 1846, Narciso Fabregat, and T. M. Robbins who was cl. * Camu- los, 4 1., 1843, Pedro C. Carrillo, who was cl. Cañada del Corral, 2 1., 1841, José D. Ortega, who was cl. Cañada Larga o Verde, } 1., 1841, Joaquina Alvarado. who was cl. Canada de los Pinos, see Sta Ines. Canada de Salsi- puedes, 13 1., 1844, Pedro Cordero, John Keyes cl. Cieneguita, 400 varas, 1845, Anastasio Carrillo, who was cl. Corral de Cuati, 3 ]., 1845, Agustin Dávila; M. Antonia de la Guerra de Lataillade cl. Cuyama, 5 1., 1843, José Maria Rojo; M. Antonia de la G. de Lataillade cl. Dos Pueblos, 3 1., 1842, Nicholas A. Den, who was cl. In Arch. Sta B., MS., x. 228-31; Dept. St. Pap., Any., MS., vii. 59-60, is recorded a dispute between Den and the mis- sion in 1843. By arbitration the arroyo de la Cañada de las Armas was made the boundary. * Huertas, 1,300 varas, 1844, Francisco et al .; M. Ant. de la G. de Lataillade cl. Laguna, 1845, Miguel Avila; Octaviano Gutierrez cl. Lomas de la Purificacion, 3 1., 1844, Agustin Janssens, who was cl. Mision

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History of California, Volume IV, Part 66

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe Publication date: 1885 Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers Number of Pages: 820

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers
Number of Pages: 820