the county road continued to the present as a small residential community. 

 The eastern part of the town was sold in 1866 and 1868 to W. W. Wilkins, who 

 developed the ranch that is the subject of this chapter. 6 



In August of 1857 Correns made an agreement with Nathaniel Page, Jr. 

 to take and mill lumber, and in early 1858 sold the 2,200 acre property to Page; 

 the deed for this transaction established the property as the Page Tract, a 

 name that would figure in deeds for decades to come. Page and his partners 

 Solomon Sharp and Francis Belden apparently kept the sawmills going and paid 

 taxes on the land until making an agreement in 1864 with a group of men 

 calling themselves the Morgan Land Company. Page then sold the tract to the 

 group, Isaac Morgan, William W. Wilkins, John M. Burke, L. C. Pyle, Samuel 

 Clarke and S. P. Weeks, on August 1, 1866, for $7,000. 7 



The apparent leader of the partnership, Captain Isaac Morgan, had 

 arrived at Bolinas in 1851 and was the first to purchase land from Gregorio 

 Briones. Morgan purchased a tract covering much of the east side of Bolinas 

 Lagoon and established the Belvidere Ranch, where he grew apples, had a small 

 dairy and farm, built boats and cut wood. Morgan and his partners in the Page 

 Tract purchase were all neighbors who had pioneered in the area during the 

 previous decade. 



During the following two years, 1866 through 1868, partners Burke, 

 Weeks and Pyle sold out their interests to Wilkins, and in late 1868 Clarke sold 

 his 2/7th to Peter Bourne. In November of 1869 Bourne and Wilkins split up 

 the tract, with Bourne taking the southern 794 acres where he developed a 

 dairy ranch and Wilkins the larger northern tract of 1397.14 acres; he also 

 bought adjacent tidelands at the head of Bolinas Lagoon from L. C. Pyle. Thus 

 the Wilkins Ranch was created, and soon it prospered. 8 



6 Marin County Journal. November 26, 1870. 



7 Deeds Book B, pp. 368-371, 377, 378, Book C, pp. 187-188, Book E, p. 614, MCRO; 

 Assessments 1859-1865, in Abstract, Wilkins. 



"Deeds Book E, p. 620, Book F, pp. 403 and 416, Book G, p. 597, Book H, pp. 66, 199, 276 and 

 403, MCRO. Peter Bourne's family owned the ranch south of Wilkins well into the 20th century. 

 Today it and its neighbor to the south, the Weeks Ranch, comprise the Audubon Canyon Ranch. 



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