DIVISION ONE — PRE-PASADENIAN. 7 1 



that the last he heard of the deed was that Felipe Lugo had it. Don Felipe 

 was justice of the peace in 1840 (when the ranch was granted to Knrique 

 Sepulveda and Jose Perez), and again in 1850. 



Some years after the ranch had been given to old Eulalia, there came to 

 vSan Gabriel a fine appearing gentleman of straight Castilian blood, recently 

 from Spain, Juan Marine by name, who had held for a while some public 

 office at San Diego. He wooed the aged Eulalia and married her. But 

 they did not get along well together ; so they agreed to divide their property 

 and go apart. Eulalia took his bit of land and house where the San Gab- 

 riel public school now stands, for her portion, and gave to Marine the 

 Rancho San Pasqual, which was solely hers. 



[Note. — I made nine unsuccessful trips hunting for documents on this 

 Marine case, to E. Sorabjee, and the district court, and the federal court, 

 and to G. W. Hughes, and to Hervey Lindley ; but a tenth eflfort proved 

 successful after this chapter was in type, ready for press. And I find that 

 in 1833, Don Juan Marine [pronounced Mar-e-7iay] was in possession of 

 "Rancho el Rincon de San Pascual. " December 27, 1833, the governor' 

 made inquiry about it of the City Council of Eos Angeles. They replied : 

 ' ' Juan Marine has all the requisites required by law to be heard in his 

 petition." In February, 1835, Governor Figueroa granted the ranch to 

 Marine. In 1838 Marine died. April i, 1839, Fruto Marine, his son, 

 sold his interest in the ranch to Jose Perez for " six horses and ten head of 

 cattle." In July of same year Antonio Silva and Deciderio Belardi (sons- 

 in-law of Marine) and his two other sons, Filomeno and Rafaela Marine, 

 sold their interests to Jose Perez, — but as to Chino Silvas, another son-in- 

 law, I did not find whether he sold or not. The Marine family had some 

 crops on the ranch, but apparently never built any permanent house on it, 

 nor stocked it according to law. Jose Perez built the adobe house which 

 still stands, and lived there in 1839-40. His heirs finally sold their interest 

 to Dona Encarnacion Abila ; she stocked the place as the law required, being 

 the first person to do this ; and her rights all passed over to her son-in-law, 

 Don Manuel Garfias. — Ed.] 



The first white man who ever made a home on Rancho San Pasqual 

 was Jose Perez, a son of Eulalia's cousin, Esteban Perez. Jose's wife was 

 Merced Eugo, sister to his uncle Eranio Perez's wife ; but after Jose's death 

 she married the American, Stephen C. Foster, who was the first alcalde 

 [mayor and judge] of Eos Angeles under American rule — 1847-48-49, and 

 was a member and secretary of the first State Constitutional convention of 

 California, being a graduate of Yale College and a proficient scholar in the 

 Spanish language. Jose Perez built the west E of the old adobe house 

 recently occupied by E. Sorabjee, as manager of the Raymond Improvement 

 Company's large tract south of Raymond Hill, and lived there in 1839. 



