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Contributing Institution:
Society of California Pioneers
Title: Lands of Bodega Letters
Identifier/Call Number: C057721
Identifier/Call Number: 922
Physical Description:
1 folder
Date: 1843
Abstract: The folder contains a letter in Spanish to the Prefect of the 1st District regarding lands solicited by Stephen Smith and
Don Victor Prudon.
Language of Material:
English
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Lands of Bodega Letters, The Society of California Pioneers
The folder contains a letter in Spanish to the Prefect of the 1st District regarding lands solicited by Stephen Smith and
Don Victor Prudon.
Bodega Bay was discovered by Lt. Francisco de la Bodéga y Cuadro. The Russian American Company laid claim to part of the land
around Bodega Bay, and Ivan Kuskov founded Romanzov, a settlement that grew wheat and hunted sea otter. In 1835, Mariano Guadalupe
Vallejo gave American sailors on the border of the Russian land in order to curtail Russian expansion. In 1841, the Russian
land was sold to John A. Sutter, and Governor Micheltorena granted thousands of acres of Bodega land, including some of the
former Russian land, to Stephen Smith. Smith created the Rancho Bodega.
Bibliography: Hart, James D., ed. A Companion to California. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bodega Bay (Calif.)
Land grants -- California.