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who settled here in 1837/^ in an adobe hut, and achieved distinction as a misanthrope and miser, sympathetic with the spirit at whose mountain's feet he crouched.
The upper part of the San Joaquin Valley had so far been shunned by fixed settlers, owing to Indian hostilit}^ toward the Spanish race. With others the aborigines agreed better; and gaining their favor through the mediation of the influential Sutter, the German Charles M. Weber had located himself on French Camp rancho, which he sought to develop by introducing colonists. In this he had so far met with little success; but his farm prospering, and his em- ployes increasing, he laid out the town of Tuleburg, soon to rise into prominence under the new name of Stockton.^* He foresaw the importance of the place as a station on the road to the Sacramento, and as the gateway to the San Joaquin, on which a settlement had been formed in 1846, as far up as the Stanislaus, by a party of Mormons. On the north bank of this tributary, a mile and a half from the San Joaquin, the migratory saints founded New Hope, or Stanislaus, which in April 1847 boasted ten or twelve colonists and several houses. Shortly afterward a summons
^^ He bought it from J. Noriega, and called it the Pulpunes; extent, three leagues by foar. The San Pablo and Pinole covered four leagues each, the PauM Goloradoe three leagues, the Monte del Diablo, on which Pacheco had some 5,000 head of cattle, four leagues. The aggressive Indians had disturbed several settlers, killing F. Briones, driving away Wm Welch, who settled in 1832, and the Romero brothers. Brown settled in 1847, and began to ship lumber to San Francisco. There were also the grants of Las Juntas of Wm Welch, three square leagues; Arroyo de las Nueces of J. S. Pacheco and Cafiada del Haoibre of T. Soto, the two latter two sauare leagues each.
^Amonff the residents were B. K. Thompson, £ii Randall, Jos. Buzzell, Andrew Baker, James Sirey, H. F. Fanning, George Frazer, W. H. Fairchild, James McKee, Pvle, and many Mexicans and servants of Weber. See fur- ther in Tinkham s Hist, StocHon; San Joaquin Co, Hist.; Col. Star, May 13, 1848, etc. Tavlor reports two log cabins on the site in 1847, those of Buzzell and Sirey. Nic. Gann's wife, while halting in Oct. 1847, gave birth to a son, William. The name French Camp came from the trappers who fremiently camped here. T. Lindsay, while in charge in 1845, was killed by Indian nidexB. The war of 1847 had caused an exodus of proposed settlers.
