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The Vacas and Pena Land Holdings / Bowen, Jerry [652] [WAYITWAS-2006-652]
In the last installment we saw the relationship between the Vacas and Penas begin to fall apart even as marriage between their sons and daughters took place over the years.
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Vaca, Pena relationship turns to trouble / Bowen, Jerry [648] [WAYITWAS-2006-648]
In my last column I ended with a brief discussion of the conditions that the Vacas and Penas lived under in their newly built homes in Lagoon Valley.
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John Currey and the Vaca-Pena Land Grant Cases / Bowen, Jerry [11] [WAYITWAS-2000-11]
All Mexican land grants in California were poorly defined - a tree, a mountain bluff, lagoon, river, or ravine served as boundaries and frequently these specified more land than was intended to be granted. No accurate surveys were made and the only legal restrictions falling within these vague limits were that excess land would revert to the public domain. Many problems were caused by the vague descriptions after California became a territory and later a state..
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Vaca, Pena rift impacts both families / Bowen, Jerry [650] [WAYITWAS-2006-650]
In my last article we saw a rift grow between the Vacas and Penas. As a result, several members of the Vaca clan migrated from the Vacaville area, mainly toward the northern reaches of the grant, which today is Davis. By the 1850s, there were only 12 Vacas in the immediate area.
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Vallejo's holdings dwindled as his life faded / Bowen, Jerry [640] [WAYITWAS-2006-640]
During his life, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo had been rich and famous beyond his wildest dreams. Misfortune also followed this great man as many of his children died and his imprisonment during the Bear Flag invasion of his home in Sonoma left him in declining health.
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L to R - Galvino Pena, Jesus Pena, Antonio Pena. Sons of Gavino and Ruperta (Vaca) Pena; Grandsons of Juan Felipe Pena..
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Juan Manuel Vaca for whom Vacaville was named. Land Grant partner of Juan Felipe Pena
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Armijo's holdings torn by ownership wars / Delaplane, Kristin [272] [ECHOS-1996-272]
Last in a series Other people began laying claim to Armijo's land as early as the mid-1840s.
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Capt. Ritchie battles for his land holdings / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [506] [WAYITWAS-2004-506]
On Aug. 26, 1850, Gen. Vallejo sold his Rancho Suisun grant, which he had purchased back from Chief Solano earlier in May, to Capt. Alexander Archibald Ritchie [...]
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Vaca's and Pena's lengthy trek west / Bowen, Jerry [191] [WAYITWAS-2003-191]
The year was 1841. Newly elected President Tyler died one month after giving a long-winded inaugural speech in a cold March rain and an unpopular Vice President James K. Polk assumed the presidency, the first president ever to come to office by constitutional succession.
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