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specially obnoxious to Wilson. In the affair at Chino, in September, 1846, 

 when Wilson and his company of U. S. soldiers were all captured, he al- 

 ways believed that Isaac Williams betrayed him ; and Williams's wife was 

 one of the Lugo women. Then when they were being marched to lyos 

 Angeles as prisoners, it was Capt. Jose del Carmen Lugo who wanted to 

 shoot Wilson and all the rest ; and they were only saved irom this fate by 

 the heroic and soldierly honor of Capt. Serbulo Barelas. Mrs. Merced 

 IvUgo de Perez de Foster, the rival claimant of the ranch against Garfias, 

 was sister to Mrs. Williams and to Jose del Carmen and Felipe Lugo — 

 while Mrs. Garfias was cousin to Wilson's first wife,* so here was a call for 

 him to take a hand in the fight for the ranch, and bring discomfiture upon 

 his old enemies the Lugos. He therefore went into the contest, aided in its 

 management, and won the case. 



On December 11, 1862, John S. Griffin and Louisa, his wife, deeded 

 to Benjamin D. Wilson and Margaret S. Wilson, his wife, for the consider- 

 ation of $500 a tract of 640 acres " on the Rancho San Pasqual, out of which 

 said Rancho the herein described lot of land is carved." [Book 6, p. 51.] 

 This conveyance included what was afterward known as the "Fair Oaks" 

 and the Allen property ; and the same day, to- wit : 



On December 11, 1862, Benjamin D. Wilson and Margaret S. Wilson 

 his wife made a deed to Kliza G. Johnston of 262 acres of which the docu- 

 ment says: "The said tract hereby conveyed being part of the San Pas- 

 qual Ranch, and the southwesterly half of the land this day conveyed by 

 John S. Grifiin and Louisa his wife, to the parties of the first part herein ;" 

 etc. The consideration was $1,000. [Book 6, p. 53.] 



This Mrs. Johnston was sister to Dr. Griffin, and wife of Gen. Albert 

 Sidney Johnston, who was in command of the Department of California 

 when the war of 1861 commenced. Unionists at San Francisco reported 

 to Washington that Gen. Johnston was planning to turn the resources of his 

 command over to the confederate cause, as Gen. Twigg had done in Tex- 

 as ;t and he was thereupon superseded by Gen. Sumner. | Johnston re- 



Chino. Don Felipe Lugo, justice of the peace, had the original deed that was made of the land to 

 Eulalia Perez de Guillen by the padres, and was trying to aid his sister Merced Foster, widow of his 

 nephew Jose Perez, in her case. However, their claim had the fatal defect of failure to put such build- 

 ings and such live stock on the ranch as the Mexican law of land grants required, this failure being due 

 to the death of Jose Perez before he could complete his undertaking. 



*Dona Vicenta Yorba, widow of Don Tomas Yorba, and then managing the great Santa Ana 

 ranch herself, [January, 1847], " was the aunt of Mr. Garfias, wile of the American Consul at Tepic, 

 Mexico." — See " Sixty years in California, pp 432-3-4. 



iGeo. Stoneman was a captain in command of Fort Brown, Texas, and was ordered by Gen. Twigg 

 to surrender the Fort to the secessionists. He refused to obey this order of the commanding General 

 t)ut marched out with his own troops under the old flag and took steamer for New York, and afterward 

 became famons as a Union cavalry officer. And this was our Pasadenaland Gen. Stoneman, Governor of 

 California from 1883 to 1887. Gen. Stoneman first came to California in 1847, arriving at San Diego Jan- 

 uary 29th of that year as L,ieut. in Jst U. S. dragoons and quartermaster of the Mormon battalion, 



JGen. Sumner was sent from Washington to San Francisco so secretly that the newspaper :nen 

 did not get hold of it. He went by steamer to the isthmus, then by steamer up the coast The vessel ar- 

 rived off Golden Gate in the daytime but the General held her from running in until after nightfall ; 

 then instead of going directly to her own dock she lauded him and his staff at another wharf a mile 

 nearer the Presidio or fort where Gen. Johnston had his headquarters. Gen. Sumner was met by the U. 



