8o HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



assumed all of Mr. Croft's notes and obligations, according to an agreement 

 which he had made with Dr. Griffin beforehand, and paid them by quar- 

 terly assessments on the shareholders, or by sale of lands when it could be 

 done. 



On January 27, 1874, the colonists assembled on Reservoir Hill, and 

 each made selection of his own choice of lots in the tract as platted by the 

 colony's surveyor, equal to his number of shares of stock in the association. 

 A complete list of these original selections is given in another place, with 

 explanation of where each one lies now [1894] in the present city of 

 Pasadena. [See Chap. 5.] 



CHAPTER IV. 



Pasadena's Part in the Mexican War. — Capture of Los Angeles in 1846. — Lieut. 

 Gillespie driven out. — ^ Battle of Chino. — Battle of Los Angeles. — Battle of Do- 

 mingnez ranch. — Carrillo's hippodrome strategy at San Pedro. — Army flag made 

 from children's dresses. — Battle of San Gabriel ford. — Battle of Laguna ranch. — 

 Mexican army encamped at South Pasadena. — Plans made there for their final 

 surrender to Col. Fremont. — List of Pasadena families correlated with these not- 

 able events. 



HOW PASADENA FIGURES IN THE CALIFORNIA BATTLES. 



Don Manuel Garfias, the first patentee owner of Rancho San Pasqual, 

 and B. D. Wilson its second recorded owner, and Dr. John S. Griffin its 

 third owner, all bore a part or had deep concern in the battles of San 

 Gabriel and the Mesa, or I^aguna Ranch, fought between the American and 

 Mexican forces on January 8 and 9, 1847. A portion of the Mexican troops 

 under Garfias' command took horses and cattle from this ranch for their 

 march back to Mexico. And from his camp on this ranch Gen. Andres 

 Pico appointed commissioners who made and signed the final terms of sur- 

 render to Col. Fremont, known in history as the "capitulation of Cahuen- 

 ga," and which was the last official act, and in fact the only one, of Mexic- 

 Californian authorities for turning the vast territory of California over to the 

 United States. But besides these, there are other Pasadenian families that 

 have historic association with the stirring events, battles and marches of 

 1846-47 ; and therefore I devote a chapter to this part of our local his- 

 tory. 



The name of note in Pasadena history which first appears in connectign 

 with the military movements for .securing California to the United States is 

 that of Don Juan Bandini, after whom Bandini avenue was named (mis- 

 called " Michigan" avenue in part of its course.) This man's son, Arturo 

 Bandini, married a daughter of Dr. T. B. Elliott, the first president of the 

 original "Indiana colony," out of the ashes of which Pasadena arose, and 



