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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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164 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
where at the age of seventy-two he married a
second wife, and died in 1865, at the age of
eighty-six years. His son, also named William,
came in the same party from Oregon, and
worked as a carpenter at Sonoma, New Helvetia and San Rafael. In Oregon he had married Rebecca Kelsey, who left him on his arrival
in California. Application was made to Larkin
for a divorce, and despite his lack of authority
to grant it she was married by Sutter to another
man. This, the junior Fowler, was probably
killed in 1846, in the BearFlag rebellion.
William E. Elliott, a native of North Carolina, camé overland from Missouri in 1845, with
the Grigsby and Ide party, with his wife, Elizabeth, whom he had married in 1821, and seven
children. Was summoned betvre Castro as the
representative of the immigration; became a
famous hunter, and on one of his early expeditions is credited with having discovered the
geysers. He built a cabin on Mark West Creek;
worked for Smith at Bodega, but left his family
in Napa Valley. He joined the “Rear” in
1846, and Mrs. Elliott is said to have furnished
cloth and needles for the famous flag. The
old hunter raised grain and cattle in Napa and
Sonoma; kept a hotel in 1849, and in 1854
moved to a farm in Lake County, near Upper
Lake, where he died in 1876, at the age of
seventy-eight.
THE MEXICAN LAND GRANTS
that were made within the present limits of
Napa County were the following: Humana
Carne, 17,962 acres, patented to the heirs of
Edward A. Bale in 1879; Catacula, 8,546
acres, to J. B. Chiles in 1865; Caymus, 11,887
acres, to George C. Yount in 1863; Chimiles,
17,762 acres, to Gordon and Coombs in 1860;
Entre Napa, 400 acres, to P. D. Baily, 81 acres
to N. Coombs in 1866, 2,051 acres to J. Green
in 1881, 877 acres to M. F. de Niguara in
1879, 403 acres to Ralph L. Kilburn, 40 acres
to Joseph Mount and others, 1,104 acres to
Mount & Cotrell, 70 acres to John Patchett,
307 acres to J. P. Thompson, 62 acres to J. P.
Walker, 335 acres to Edward Wilson, 360 acres
to Charles E. Hart, and 2,558 acres to Julius
Martin; Le Jota, 4,454 acres to George O. Yount
in 1857; Locoallomi, 8,878 cares to the heirs of
Julian Pope in 1862; Napa, in parts to 8. Vallejo, Lyman Bartlett, A. L. Boggs, L. W. Boggs,
J. E. Brown, L. D. Brown, Nathan Coombs,
G. M. Cornwall, A. Farley, O. H. Frank, J. M.
Harbin, Hart & McGarry, Johnson Horrell, H.
Ingraham, William Keely, Eben Knight, H. G.
Langley, John Love, B. McCoombs, Hannah
McCoombs, J. R. MecCoombs, Ann MeDonald
and others, James McNeil, W. H. Osborne, A.
A. Ritchie, J. K. Rose, J. P. Thompson, John
Truebody and Ogden & Wise; Tulucay, 8,865
acres to C. Juarez in 1861; Yajome, 6,652
acres to Salvador Vallejo in 1864. In Napa
and Sonoma counties: Huichia, 18,704 acres
to J. E. Leese in 1859; Mallacomes, 17,742
acres to J. 8. Berreyesa in 1873.
GOVERNMENTAL.
At the time of the conquest Napa County
formed part of the northern military department, under the Mexican Government, of which
the headquarters were at Sonoma. It was organized and its boundaries fixed by the Legislature April 25, 1851. The boundaries were
afterward changed, April 4,1855. A considerable portion of its area was afterward cut off
and becaine a portion of Lake County. At the
1872 session of the Legislature a further
change was made, altering its northern line and
giving a portion of Lake County to Napa.
_ The first deed on record at the court-house
was dated April @ 3, 1850, from Nicolas
Higuera to John C. Brown, and acknowledged
before H. M. Kendig, recorder. Some records
are in the Spanish language. The second is
dated February 15, 1850, from Nathan Coombs
and Isabella, his wife, to Joseph Brackett and
J. W. Brackett “of Napa Valley, District of
Sonoma, in the northern department of California,” and acknowledged before R. L. Kilburn, alcalde.
The present court-house plaza was occupied