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Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California

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Description
The four volumes are entitled: 1. "Hastings Ranch - Chapman Tract;" 2. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, U.S. Govt Lands;" 3. "Hastings Ranch - Bailey Tract and U.S. Lands;" and 4. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, Sierra Madre Tract." The volumes contain handwritten and printed copies of the following documents: agreements, abstracts of title, land deeds, land grants (patents), legal documents, mortgages, plats, wills, tax documents, survey results, estate records, and inventories of property. The documents cover a 42-year history of Rancho Santa Anita and Hastings Ranch, California. All of the various owners of the property are represented in the volumes including: Hugo Reid, Henry Dalton, Lewis L. Bradbury, Alfred and William Chapman, Albert and Thomas Dibble, William Corbett, Lewis and William Wolfskill, Benjamin Davis Wilson, Leonard J. Rose, Joseph A. Rowe, María Victoria Bartoloméa Comecrabit Reid, and Charles Cook Hastings. More specifically there are several documents dealing with the estates of Hugo and Victoria Reid, the Chapmans, the Wolfskills and Charles Cook Hastings. There are also documents involving the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California. Volume 4 includes one letter about a survey of the land.
Type
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Production date
1847-1889.
Call number
mssHM 76514-76517
Provenance
Purchased from Dawson's, October 14, 1976.
Associated people
Bradbury, L. L. (1803-1884.)
Chapman, Alfred B. (1811?-1853.)
Chapman, William S. (1827-1899.)
Corbett, William. (1811-1878.)
Dalton, Henry, (1848-1884.)
Dibble, Albert.
Dibble, Thomas.
Hastings, Charles Cook.
Reid, Hugo,
Rose, L. J.
Wilson, Benjamin Davis,
Wolfskill, Lewis,
Wolfskill, William.
Associated organization
Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California.
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