Francisco Antonio Berreyesa (1824–1856) was the son of
Rancho San Vicente, and who was killed by John C. Frémont's men in 1846.[4] Francisco Berreyesa was a soldier at San Francisco, and was also a grantee of Rancho Cañada de Capay in 1846. Pío Pico granted two square leagues to Francisco Berreyesa in 1846, and Berryessa sold the rancho to Johnson Horrel in 1851. In 1856, Francisco was murdered in his home in Santa Clara.[5]
Johnson Horrell (1798–1867) born Pennsylvania, was a lawyer came to California in 1849. He constructed a dam across the Yuba River, and afterwards aided in laying off the city of Marysville. He was the owner of the first silver mine opened in Nevada.[6]
With the
Public Land Commission in 1853,[7][8] and the grant was patented to Johnson Horrell, Joseph Green, and Ramón G. de la Riva in 1866.[9]
In 1856 R. B. Markle and W. J. Miller bought 759 acres (3.1 km2) from Johnson Horrell. In 1859, James Abram Kleiser bought Markle's interest, and the town Cloverdale was laid out.
See also
Berreyesa family
References
^Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco