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been abandoned and lay idle some time before Maria de Guillen (afterward 

 Mrs. Lopez) came to San Gabriel to live, which was about 1821, she being 

 then nine years old ; and for several years the grain grinding for the Mis- 

 sion had been again done by Indian women on their metates ; though it 

 seems that occasionally a little was still done at the old mill in the way of 

 gristing for Los Angeles and other points, where the meal was taken direct 

 from the millstone. 



The little girl above mentioned, Maria de Guillen, was a daughter of 

 Eulalia Perez de Guillen, the first owner of Rancho San Pasqual or Pasa- 

 denaland, who died June 8, 1878 — aged 143 (?) years. [See article headed 

 "Complete Chain of Title," Chap. 3.] And Maria was married in 1829 to 

 Tiburico Lopez, son of Claudio Lopez who served about thirty-six years as 

 major domo at San Gabriel, according to the traditions of the family ; hence, 

 as general overseer of the old Mission business, he was the first white man 

 who ever utilized the lands which afterwards became Rancho San Pasqual, 

 and Pasadena, And I have found descendants of Major Claudio still living 

 in this county, as follows : 



Theodore Lopez, San Gabriel — grandson. 



Felipe Lopez, San Gabriel — grandson. 



Romaldo Lopez, Old Mission — grandson. 



Geronimo Lopez, San Fernando — grandson. 



Francisco E. Lopez, Los Angeles — great grandson, 



Jose Lopez, San Gabriel — great grandson. 



Valentine Lopez, San Fernando — great grandson. 



Luis Lopez, La Ballona — great grandson. 



Jose Lopez, La Ballona — great grandson. 

 All these, besides their families ; while some of the descendants reside 

 out of the county, and some out of the state. [There were fifty-two voters 

 named Lopez in our "great register" of 1892-94.]* Tiburcio Lopez died 

 in 1857 ; but his wife and her two sons, Theodore and Felipe, are still living 

 at San Gabriel, and they have kindly assisted me in correcting the many 

 published errors about the old mill. Old Francesca Perez, who was born 

 at Los Nietos [near Whittier] in 1794, and is still living in Pasadena [June, 

 1895], was godmother to Theodore Lopez and second cousin to Eulalia 

 Perez de Guillen ; and she too has furnished me some points about the old 

 mills. 



A PIRATE PRISONER IN OUR PASADENA MOUNTAINS. 



The old Mission Mill No. 2 was commonly called "Chapman's mill"; 

 and therefore I must tell about Chapman. In 18 18 a Buenos Ayres priva- 

 teer landed some men on the Ortega ranch above Santa Barbara to plunder 

 it, and the family fled in terror, one of them being a young daughter named 



*Bancroft, Hist. Cal., lists forty persons named Lopez who had figured ia some way in California 

 history. 



