Manuscripts

Miscellaneous Notes

Description: Folder five consists of several dozen miscellaneous handwritten interview and research notes that are undated. The folder also includes an oversized envelope, a newspaper clipping, and a hand-drawn map of Rancho Santa Paula/Saticoy that includes the border of Rancho Sespe.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1926
Call number: mssSespe
Provenance: Gift of Keith Spalding, January 1944.
Associated people: Cleland, Robert Glass,; Pressey, Howard F.; Sheridan, E. M.; Spalding, Keith.
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Legal Documents, Manuscript, Notes, and Correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection includes 412 items which include one manuscript on the history of Rancho Sespe, correspondence from historians, interview notes, a small number of drawings and pictures, miscellaneous notes, and copies of legal documents submitted to the California Land Commission by Carlos Antonio Carrillo in 1854 to prove his ownership of Rancho Sespe. Most of this collection is the creation of E.M. Sheridan, Keith Spalding and Howard F. Pressey. E. M. Sheridan is the author of the unpublished manuscript and was also a curator for the Pioneer Museum in Ventura, a predecessor of the Museum of Ventura County. Pressey was a historian and manager of Rancho Sespe. He also conducted most of the interviews and authored many of the interview notes in this collection. Spalding was also a historian of Rancho Sespe who assisted Pressey with interviews and had a secretary type his summary dictations.

mssSespe

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Folder four consists of mostly interview and research notes but also includes a translated transcription of the will of Carlos Antonio Carrillo, the first owner of Rancho Sespe, and a short biography of Carrillo.

mssSespe

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Sespe Rancho collection

Manuscripts

mssSespe

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Carlos Antonio Carrillo Legal Documents

Manuscripts

Folder one contains copies of legal documents such as the 1854 California Land Commission documents which include a transcription of the Mexican Land grant of Rancho Sespe to Carlos Antonio Carrillo from 1829; and an English translation of the land grant transcriptions. Overall, these documents attest to the process of attaining a Mexican and Grant during the Mexican period of California history.

mssSespe

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Sheridan, E.M. "The Sespe: Early-Day History Dating from the Time of the Indians:" [unpublished manuscript]

Manuscripts

Folder two contains the manuscript "The Sespe: Early-Day History Dating from the Time of the Indians," written by E. M. Sheridan in 1927 (the manuscript appears to be unpublished). The most important catalyst of Sespe history has to do with the ownership debate of Sespe Ranch. The land dispute is discussed in detail in Chapter Six of this manuscript.

mssSespe

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Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy plat

Manuscripts

Negative photograph plat of the Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy rancho in present-day Ventura County, California.

mssHM 84237

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