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The land-holder's assistant, and land-office guide : being an exposition of original titles, as derived from the proprietary government, and more recently from the state, of Maryland : designed to explain the manner in which such titles have been and may be, acquired and completed
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Machado Family. Notes concerning the Machado family with regard to the title of land acquired by Benjamin Davis Wilson
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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
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The Canadas as they now are ... derived from the reports of the inspectors ... and from other authentic sources, assisted by local knowledge
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Letters, from a venerated nobleman, : recently retired from this country, to the Earl of Carlisle: explaining the cause of that event
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