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HISTORY OP PASADENA. 



HOUSE BUILT BY JOSE PEREZ ON RANCHO SAN PASQUAL IN 1839. 

 Still standing, 1S95. 



Senora Maria lyopez told me that he was a favorite violin player for the young 

 people to dance. He was now sick — thought he was going to die, and sent 

 word to her to come up to his house and hear him play on his violin for the 

 last time ; so she walked from San Gabriel up there to visit him. She could 

 not tell what year it was. I asked which one of her children was a baby at 

 that time, and in this way she made out that this incident occurred in 1839. 

 He removed to I^os Angeles for medical treatment soon after, and did not 

 die at once — for in 1840 Gov. Alvarado made a grant of Rancho San Pas- 

 qual to Jose Perez and Enrique Sepulveda. But neither of them ever 

 stocked the ranch with horses, sheep and cattle, as the law required — 

 hence their claim was "abandoned" and the ranch was still public land, 

 open for somebody else to take. 



On November 28, 1843, this ranch was granted by Gov. Manuel 

 Micheltorena to Don Manuel Garfias, a young officer of the Mexican army 

 who had come here with the governor. And this grant was confirmed to 

 him by the Departmental Assembly and Gov. Pio Pico on May 7th, 1846. 

 [See lyos Angeles records, Book i, page 14, of Patents.] 



March 9, 1850, Manual Garfias conveyed to Carlos Hanewald a body 

 of land " one mile square," with no boundaries given, but simply this vague 

 description : " Commencing where the Arroyo turns upward on the tillable 

 lands there." For this he was to pay $2000 ; but he failed to pay — and 

 on December 3, 1850, one John Pine appears with Hanewald in a new 

 contract for the purchase. They were to pay $600 down, and the balance 

 of purchase money was to draw 4 per cent, per month, (or 48 per cent. 



