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Description: Los Coyotes-Testimony...etc. Ranchos-Lower California: Ensenada De Todos Santos, Guadalupe, San Antonio, Santa Rosa, Tecate, Tijuana, Valle De San Rafael, Los Vallecitos, various ranches...
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1821-1935.
Call number: mssStearns
Creator: Stearns, Abel (1798-1871)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Correspondents include Juan Bandini, Cave Johnson Couts, Tomas Eleuterio Estenaga, John Forster, Thomas Oliver Larkin, Perfecto Hugo Reid, Alfred Robinson, and others.
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. Margaret Gaffey Kilroy, February 1937.; donated by Mrs. Kilroy and by Mrs. Susanna Bryant Dakin, 1939.
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Ranchos-Upper California

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Azusa (Dalton), Bautista, Boca de Santa Monica, La Bolsa Chica, Las Bolsas, La Brea, La Canada, Canada de Los Vaqueros, Canon De Santa Ana, and Los Coyotes.

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Jurupa, Mission Dolores-Lands, Palos Verdes, Del Paso, Paso De Bartolo, San Antonio (L.A. Co.), San Jose De Buenos Aires, San Juan Cajon De Santa Ana, San Pedro, Santa Ana Del Chino, Santa Gertrudis, Santa Rosa Island, Santiago De Santa Ana, Sespe, La Sierra, Sobrante De San Jacinto.

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Gaffey Papers

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San Pedro, California

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Rosa Castilla [T.1N. R.12W. S.B.M.]

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Bordered by city of Los Angeles (east), Ranchos San Rafael , San Pascual, Santa Anita and Potrero Grande. San Gabriel Mission lands including San Gabriel, Cuati.; grid of subdivisions with borders highlighted in color. Pencil annotations including "Rosa de Castilla"

mssSolano SR_Map_0149

Township version of the Preemption Claim of Fernando Arnaud Huart

Manuscripts

Grid bordered by Ranchos San Rafael, San Pascual, Cuati, Santa Anita, Potrero Grande. San Gabriel Mission lands indicating property of Rosa de Castilia ['Rosa Castilla' in Map 149]: hachures & color highlights; Mission San Gabriel indicated; sections numbered, but few coordinates. Title supplied by cataloger.

mssSolano SR_Map_0152.02

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Abel Stearns papers

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Professional and personal papers of Abel Stearns, including correspondence, business records, legal documents, and other manuscripts. The materials in the collection deal with life in California during the Mexican and early statehood periods, including the cattle industry, ranching, real estate, political and social life, and the gold discoveries in Southern California in 1842. Correspondents include Juan Bandini, Cave Johnson Couts, Tomas Eleuterio Estenaga, John Forster, Thomas Oliver Larkin, Perfecto Hugo Reid, Alfred Robinson, and others. Also included are diaries kept in 1879-1905 by Juan Bautista Bandini, son of Juan Bandini, who lived in the Santa Monica area. The collection also contains a group of papers accumulated by John Tracy Gaffey, third husband of Mrs. Abel Stearns. The Gaffey papers contain correspondence, including letters from Stephen Mallory White, papers relating to San Pedro, California and historical sketches. There are also papers related to María Victoria Bartoloméa Comecrabit Reid.

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