74 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



aries described in the grant and the Map to which the grant refers, to-wit : 

 On the east of the Rancho of " Santa Anita," on the west by the bluff of 

 the Arroyo Seco, on the north the Sierra, and on the south the range of 

 hills near the road to L,os Angeles, these the said hills being included in the 

 said described premises, provided that should there be a less quantity than 

 three and a half square leagues within the said boundaries, then confirma- 

 tion is hereby made of said less quantity. 



"And, Whereas, it further appears from a duly certified transcript, 

 filed in the General lyand Office, that the Attorney General of the United 

 States having given notice that it was not the intention of the United 

 States to prosecute the appeal heretofore taken in this cause, the aforesaid 

 District Court, at the December term, 1856, ordered that the order of appeal 

 heretofore granted in this cause be and the same hereby is vacated, 

 and the Appellee has leave to proceed under the Decree of this Court 

 heretofore rendered in his favor as a final Decree. 



"The said tract has been surveyed in conformity with the grant 

 thereof and the said decision. And I do hereby certify the annexed map 

 to be a true and accurate plat of the said tract of land as appears by the 

 field notes of the survey thereof made by Henry Hancock, Deputy Sur- 

 veyor, in the month of August, A. D. 1858, under the direction of this 

 office, which having been examined and approved, are now on file therein. 

 And I do further certify that under and by virtue of the said confirmation 

 and Survey, the said Manuel Garfias is entitled to a Patent from the United 

 States upon the presentation hereof to the General Dand Office for the said 

 tract of land, 



Surveyor Hancock's field notes showed 28 different courses in the bound- 

 ary line of the ranch, which illustrates the curiously irregular shape of the 

 body of land described ; and this was equally true of nearly all of the old 

 Mission or Spanish land grants. 



On January 15th, 1859, Manuel Garfias and lyuisa Abila, his wife, ex- 

 ecuted a deed to Benjamin D. Wilson,* of " all right, title, interest, claim 

 and demand, both at law and in equity, as well in possession as in expect- 

 tancy of, in and to the real property '^ * known as the Rancho de 

 San Pasqual," etc. Consideration, $1,800. This deed is recorded in Book 

 4, page 310 of Deeds, I^os Angeles County. That was four years before 

 Garfias had obtained his United States patent for the land, and said patent 

 was the "expectancy" referred to in the above quoted recital of what in- 

 terests were conveyed. In fact, besides monetary interests, Wilson had a 

 special reason of a personal nature for aiding the Garfias claim before the 

 U. S. lyand Commissioners. The rival claim, based on the prior grant of 

 1840, had become a sort of Lugo family affairf — and the Lugos were 



*There is a biography of B. D. Wilson in the Histor3' of Los Augeles County, published by Thomp- 

 son & West in 1880, on pages 36-37. 



t As this is an interesting historic episode touching Pasadenlaud, I will make it more clear. Old 

 Don Antonio Lugo originally owned the San Antonio ranch, 2q, 513 acres, and the Chiiio ranch, 16,000 

 acres. In 1835 to 1840 he was listed as owning 37,000 head of cattle, and 2,400 horses. He had five sons, 

 as (oWows : Jose Maria Lugo. Felipe Lugo, Jose del Cur men Lugo, Vicente Lugo, Jose Antonio Lugo ; an A 

 four daughters — Vicente, wife of Eranio Perez and aunt of Jose Perez to whom (with Enrique Sepulveda) 

 the ranch had been granted in it;4o ; Mrrced, wife of Jose Perez, and after his death wife of Stephen C. 



Foster, and claimant of the ranch before the U. S. Commission ; Maria Antonio, wife of Yorba ; 



Maria Jesus, wife of Isaac Williams whom B. D. Wilson believed had betrayed him at the battle of 



