Finding Aid of the Lands of Bodega Letters C057721

K. Ransick
Society of California Pioneers
February 19, 2010
101 Montgomery Street, Suite 150
Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94129
pkeats@californiapioneers.org


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 .

Conditions Governing Access

Access is unrestricted.

Preferred Citation

Lands of Bodega Letters, The Society of California Pioneers

Scope and Contents

The folder contains a letter in Spanish to the Prefect of the 1st District regarding lands solicited by Stephen Smith and Don Victor Prudon.

Biographical / Historical

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.