Berreyesa family
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 162 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5081-0921-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Berreyesa family was a substantial clan of Basque-heritage Spanish-speaking settlers in early Northern California who held extensive land in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The members of the family lost nearly all of their real estate holdings to Anglo squatters, debts and legal battles in the decades following the formation of the United States Public Land Commission in 1851—though pre-existing land grants of Mexican-era landowners had been continued by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In the 1850s, Anglo settlers of California killed eight Berreyesa men, and some Berreyesas chose to leave Northern California to save their lives. Antonio Berreyesa once said that his Californio family was the "one which most justly complained of the bad faith of the adventurers and squatters and of the treachery of American lawyers." Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в...