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name, and above, on Antelope Creek, lives Job F, Dye, below P. B. Reading, who ranks as the most northern settler in the valley, on Cottonwood Creek,** one of the numerous tributaries here fed by the adja- cent snow-crowned summits dominated by the majes- tic Shasta.
Descending along the west bank of the Sacramento, we encounter the rancho of William B. Ide, of Bear-flag fame ;*• below him, on Elder Creek, is William C. Chard, and R. H. Thomes on the creek named after him.**^ On Stony Creek, whence Sutter obtains grindstones,*^ live Granville P. Swift, Franklin Sears, and Bryant; below them John S. Williams has lately settled with his wife, the first white woman in this region." Watt Anderson is found on Sycamore Slough, and on the north side of Cache Creek the family of William Gor- don.** Eastward lies the rancho of William Knight,** and below him, facing the mouth of Feather River, that of Thomas M. Hardy.** In a hut of tule, facing the Sutter s-fort grant, lives John Schwartz, a reticent builder of airy castles upon his broad domain, and of whom it is said that, having lost his own language, he never learned another. A northern slice of his land he sold to James McDowell and family.** On Putah Creek, John R. Wolfskill had, since 1842, oc- cupied a four-league grant. Adjoining, on Ulattis
- ODe Julian occupied it for him in 1845, and he himself settled tbeie in
1847.
'* Jnst below the present Red Bluff, a tract bought by him from Josiah Belden. These northern grants averaged five leagues each.
- ^ He built the first dwelling in the county, on the site of Tehama
- ^ Cut by Moon, Merritt, and Lassen.
- Of Colusa county, daughter of Jos. Gordon. He located himself two
miles south of Princeton, on the Larkin children's grant, with 800 head of cattle, on shares with Larkin. M. Diaz* claim to 11 leagues was rejected.
- Who built the first dwelling in Yolo county, in 1842, on Quesisoei grant.
His son-in-law, Nathan Coombs, was probablv the first white brideffroom in the Sacramento Valley. Married by Sutter m 1844. His son William was the first white child of Yolo county. Coombs soon moved to Napa Valley.
- Who settled %t the present Knight's Landing.
^ An Englishman, hostile to Americans.
^' McDowell built a log house at the present Washinffton, and was, in 1847»
presented with the first white girl of Yolo county. He paid Schwartz 12^
cents an acre for 600 acres.
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