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1821-22, built mill at San Gabriel [the one in front of the church] ; on 

 June 24, 1822, he was baptized at San Buena Ventura ; and the same year, 

 probably soon after, he was married at Santa Ynez old Mission to Seno- 

 rita Guadalupe Ortega, and came to San Gabriel again ; in 1824 he bought 

 a house and land from Agustin Machado, in lyos Angeles, and planted 

 4,000 vines; in 1829 he applied for naturalization as a Mexican citizen, and 

 got it in 1 83 1 ; this same year he built his 60-ton schooner at San Gabriel ; 

 in 1836, lived in Santa Barbara, and by this time had five children;* in 1838, 

 received grant of a sobrante or "remainder " of 5,000 acres of land in the 

 Santa Barbara district; in 1845 to '47, he lived near San Buena Ventura, 

 and died there in 1849. Some of his descendents reside in that region yet. 

 And a grandson of his, John Chapman, now resides on the Aguirre ranch 

 at Ballona, in I^os Angeles county, his wife being a daughter of Francisco 

 Aguirre. This man, John, is said to resemble his grandfather, "Jose el 

 Ingles," in his large stature and great strength. 



THE OLD MILL NO. 2, OR CHAPMAN'S MILL. 



The old stone mill had proved a failure, as before explained (see page 

 42), and the following citation is here in point : 



"September 25, 182 1, governor orders that the 'pilot prisoner' (Jose 

 Chapman) be sent to build a mill at San Gabriel like that he had built at 

 Santa Ynez. ' ' — Hist. Cal. , Vol. 2. , p. 368. f 



So Chapman came to carry out this order. The site chosen was just 

 south of the old Mission church, where the cement ditch forebay, the 

 sluices, the wheel pit, the foundation walls, and other ruins can still be 

 seen [1894]. Water in abundance for domestic uses had been brought by 

 ditch long before, from a stone dam at mouth of Wilson Canyon •,% and the 

 waters of Mission Canyon, San Marino Canyon and the Winston Springs 

 were also trained into the ditch without need of dam. [They were then all 

 three called " Mission Canyon."] But now they wanted more water ; and to 

 meet this need, a stone dam was built at the cienega where the old Indian vil- 

 lage of Acurag-?ia had stood — [the dam and lagoon are still there and still in 

 use, about a quarter of a mile north of the "Sunny Slope " great winery] — 

 and the accumulated waters from this place, afterward called Iva Presa, were 

 also led by a ditch down to the Mission ; this stream and the one from Wil- 

 son Canyon being then both run into the cemented head-storage ditch above 

 the mill. 



*The History of Santa Barbara County says : " Joseph Chapman, the hero of the pirate ship, and of 

 the romantic affair with the daughter of the Ortega family, built a house, still standing in the rear of 

 the Episcopal church." Mrs. Reid went and examined this historic old house for me, May 2, 1S95. 



fChapman's own statement, as recorded in state documents, was that " he remained here as a 

 prisoner because he was forced, with other persons at the Sandwich Islands, on the expedition of Bou- 

 chard;" sailing: as a privateer of Buenos A5'res, then in revolt against Spain. He had been on a New 

 England whaling ship. 



I'" The Mission Fathers built a stone dam at the mouth of the Wilson Canyon, near where the barn 

 stands now, but the earth dam at the head of the Canyon was built by J. De Barth Shorb ; afterwards 

 was rebuilt by Mr. George S. Patton."— A/r. Shorb, in Letter to Dr. Reid, March ig, 1894. 



