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VOL. IV, No. 18 San Diego, Alta California, January 8, 2010 Price: Free

military commandant of the San Mariano Vallejo Francisco Presidio. Sent that year to investigate the Russians and the “General’s” at Ft. Ross, he was authorized to Map, Part 1 establish a military presence at Sonoma. Receiving in 1834 a grant Therese Muranaka to Rancho Petaluma (eventually Associate State Archaeologist 66,000 acres), Vallejo began to he only Casa de Bandini seriously develop his influence and historic map known political control of the area north to date is one drawn of San Francisco Bay. Governor T from General Mariano Jose Figueroa warned Vallejo, who Guadalupe Vallejo’s memory. was known for self-promotion, in Born at the Monterey Presidio the now famous line: on July 4th, 1807, Vallejo was de California (Bancroft Library). the eighth child of Sgt. Ignacio This government trusts… During this time, he must have Ferrer Vallejo and Maria Antonia you will not let escape an drawn two San Diego maps: the Lugo. Vallejo’s father Ignacio had opportunity to deserve the only known sketches of the San come to San Diego in 1774 with premium to which all men Diego Presidio and the Casa de the Moncada-led expedition. aspire—POSTHUMOUS Bandini. Raised also with his nephew FAME… After a long and influential Juan Bautista Alvarado (a future life, including experimentation governor of California) and Who was this Spaniard, with wine-growing in Napa boyhood friend Jose Castro (a Mexican, American and and Sonoma, an 1865 visit to future commandant general), Californian, and how did he come Washington, D.C. to see his hero Vallejo’s early memories included to draw this map? Years later, George Washington’s belongings, surviving the 1818 destruction of struggling to record his memories and initial work to save the the Monterey Presidio by the pirate of changing times for the historian redwoods, Vallejo spent his last Hippolyte Bouchard. A favorite Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vallejo days struggling to make ends meet, of Governor Pablo Vicente de would write of his pro-American selling water and produce from Sola and the Englishman William leanings (born after all on the his final home Lachryma Montis Hartnell, Vallejo was coached in 4th of July), of his appointment (Mountain Tear). The realities politics, English, French, Latin as comandant general (hence the title of American democracy had not and accounting at an early age. “General Vallejo” although he matched his dreams. His son-in- At only 15 he was the secretary was only a colonel in the Mexican law paid for his funeral when he of California Governor Luis Army), and of his imprisonment died on January 18, 1890. Part Arguello. at Sutter’s Fort during the U.S.- 2 of this series shows his hand- A cadet in the Monterey Mexican War in the five volume drawn map of the Bandini House, Company by 1824, he later Historical and Personal Memoirs and the challenge translator became a member of the territorial Relating to Alta California and the 36 Cynthia Hernandez had bringing legislature (diputacion), and in 1833 volume Documentos para la Historia its original meaning to light.

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