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Arguello had acquired the rancho. On January 2, 1856, Santiago Arguello signed a sworn statement about the legal validity of the Mexican title of the
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Antonio Abad seems not to have been kept together under that name as it does not appear in a report of settlements and ranchos in Baja California Norte in 1906, although there are a number of ranchos named San Antonio in the area mentioned.
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Lamadrid Moreno, Gran figura histórica (Tercera y última parte) Informes y mitos sobre Juan Antonio María Meléndrez, defensor del territorio ante una invasión de extranjeros, El Vigia, domingo, 16 de febrero de
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A map of the Rancho Melijo made by a county surveyor for its land commission case, indicates that the line of hills extending along the border south of the
Tijuana River and down the coast into Mexico, were known as the
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Ellsworth Smythe, San Diego and Imperial counties, California: a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement, Volume 1, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1913, p.112
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General de Estadística, División territorial de la República Mexicana, Volume 4, Estados del Pacifico, Secretaría de Fomento, Mexico, 1907, p.324
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