History of Contra Costa County, California: Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, Climatography and Description; Together with a Record of the Mexican Grants ... Also, Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches of Early and Prominent Settlers and Representative Men ... |
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... Sonoma County , and will be found to be not the least interesting portion of the present volume . We will not , however , attempt to " puff " our work , knowing full well that what we undertook to do we have conscientiously striven to ...
... Sonoma County , and will be found to be not the least interesting portion of the present volume . We will not , however , attempt to " puff " our work , knowing full well that what we undertook to do we have conscientiously striven to ...
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... Sonoma , entitled : " Report of Mr. Vallejo on the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the several Counties of California . " In that report , un- equaled in its style , and in the amount of information crowded into a small ...
... Sonoma , entitled : " Report of Mr. Vallejo on the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the several Counties of California . " In that report , un- equaled in its style , and in the amount of information crowded into a small ...
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... Sonoma , Petaluma and Russian River , and in the distance the succession of mount- ain ranges in Mendocino . On the east you see the Sacramento and San Joaquin plains , with their great rivers coursing through them , and the snow ...
... Sonoma , Petaluma and Russian River , and in the distance the succession of mount- ain ranges in Mendocino . On the east you see the Sacramento and San Joaquin plains , with their great rivers coursing through them , and the snow ...
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... ( Sonoma ) decreased respectively within this period from one thousand two hundred and fifty , and one thousand three hundred , to twenty and seventy ! A like diminution was observed in the cattle and general products of the country . Of ...
... ( Sonoma ) decreased respectively within this period from one thousand two hundred and fifty , and one thousand three hundred , to twenty and seventy ! A like diminution was observed in the cattle and general products of the country . Of ...
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... Sonoma County , was visited in January , 1811 , by Alexander Koskoff , who took possession of the place on the fragile pleas that he had been refused a supply of water at Yerba Buena ( San Francisco ) , and that he had obtained , by ...
... Sonoma County , was visited in January , 1811 , by Alexander Koskoff , who took possession of the place on the fragile pleas that he had been refused a supply of water at Yerba Buena ( San Francisco ) , and that he had obtained , by ...
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acres Alameda Alameda county Antioch April arrived in San August Board born boundaries brother Brown building California Captain Castro church coast commenced Contra Costa county Costa county Court Court of Sessions deceased December decree District dollars elected father February feet five four Government Governor grant hundred Indians James January John John Tormey Jones July June L. C. Wittenmyer land leagues located March Mark Shepard married Martinez Mexican miles mines Miss missions Missouri months Moraga Mount Diablo mountains moved Napa county native Nortonville November October Pacheco Pacific party petition Pinole present purchased Rancho remained resided returned river Sacramento San Francisco San Joaquin San Joaquin river San José San Pablo San Ramon Santa Clara September settled Slitz Smith sobrante Sonoma Suisun Bay Supervisors Sutter's Fort thence thousand tion town Township Number tract valley Walnut Creek William York
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Page 339 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ; for in the image of God made he man.
Page 338 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 99 - T was the returning tide, that afar from the waste of the ocean, With the first dawn of the day, came heaving and hurrying landward. Then recommenced once more the stir and noise of embarking; And with the ebb of the tide the ships sailed out of the harbor, Leaving behind them the dead on the shore, and the village in ruins.
Page 338 - And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
Page 512 - A wonderful stream is the River Time, As it runs through the realm of tears, With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme, And a broader sweep and a surge sublime, As it blends with the Ocean of Years.
Page 19 - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.
Page 341 - Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep : Or land, or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.
Page 563 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a
Page 152 - All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property; and laws shall be passed more clearly defining the rights of the wife, in relation as well to her separate property, as to that held in common with her husband.
Page 341 - Oh God ! it made me quake to see Such sense within the slain ! But when I touched the lifeless clay, The blood gushed out amain ! For every clot, a burning spot Was scorching in my brain ! " My head was like an ardent coal, My heart as solid ice; My wretched, wretched soul, I knew, Was at the Devil's price : A dozen times I...