66:"Snook officially denounced the land he had unofficially bought from Berry. Berry officially acceded to the denouncement of the land he had unofficially sold to Snook. In June 1839, the land was officially regranted to Snook, and Berry officially retained the remainder of his land, with Snook's money unofficially in his pocket."
109:- a little over 110,000 acres (445 km). However he had stretched his credit to the limit, and Randall could not or would not pay immediately. Joseph Hetherington a creditor undertook to force payment by hounding him on every occasion with insults and threats. Hetherington fatally shot Randall in a
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Randall. Andrew Randall (1819–1856), a native of Rhode Island, came to California in 1849 as the newly appointed customs inspector for Monterey. Randall was an entrepreneur with training as a geologist. He founded, and was elected chairman of the
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Richard Berry (–1847), an Irishman and a colonel in the Mexican army came to California from Mexico. In 1836, Governor Gutierriez, granted him the eight square league Rancho Punta de los Reyes. In 1838, Berry sold the two square league portion along the western shore of
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September 18, 1838, in Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, Documentos para la Historia de California, V, doc. no. 172, mss. at Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
63:. The sale of the grant was illegal under Mexican law. After receiving advice, Snook 'denounced' this tract of Berry's grant, and got it re-granted to him by Governor Alvarado in 1839.
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1290:Chico
802:Modoc
782:Marin
757:Kings
732:Glenn
697:Butte
518:Labor
1300:Napa
967:Yuba
962:Yolo
817:Napa
807:Mono
762:Lake
752:Kern
747:Inyo
93:and
105:in
97:in
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