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CHAPTER XXY.

LOCAL ANNALS OF SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT.
1831-1840.

GAIN IN POPULATION NUMBER OF INHABITANTS IN CALIFORNIA, NORTH AND SOUTH SUMMARY OF SAN FRANCISCO EVENTS MILITARY AFFAIRS COMPANY TRANSFERRED TO SONOMA PUEBLO AND AYUNTAMIENTO GRANTING OF LOTS LATER LITIGATION GROWTH OF YERBA BUENA RICHARDSON, LEESE, AND SPEAR PRIVATE RANCHOS OF THE DISTRICT SAN FRANCISCO MISSION SAN RAFAEL PADRE AMOR6s MAP OF MISSION LANDS SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO PUEBLO OF SONOMA GENERAL VALLEJO S ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FRONTERA DEL NORTE SAN JOSE MisSION A PROSPEROUS ESTABLISHMENT SANTA CLARA PADRES VIADER AND MORENO PUEBLO DE SAN Josri DE GUADALUPE DE ALVARADO POPULATION MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS AND LIST OF OFFICIALS SUMMARY OF EVENTS.

THE population of gente de razon at San Francisco, given as 300 in 1830, may be regarded as 280, about equally divided between the peninsula and contra costa, in 1840, the departure of the soldiers having more than counterbalanced the gain from other sources. Adding 750 for San Jos? and 200 for Sonoma and the northern frontier we have a total for the district of 1,330, a gain from 840 during the decade.^[1] The ex-neophyte Indian population had meanwhile decreased from 4,920 to 2,300, of which nura-

↑ Data for estimating the district pop. , except at S. Jose", for which we have a regular padron, are very meagre. The size of the ayunt. 2 regidorea in 1835 may indicate a pop. between 50 and 200 in the jurisdiction. Also in 1835, the resident signers to a petition vero 30 in the contra costa. In 1837 the militia company of S. F. jurisdiction peninsula and contra costa numbered 86, which should be about ^ of the pop. And finally in 1842 a padron shows 157 gente de razon on the peninsula. In the northern frontier district there were in 1840 about 70 soldiers, cavalry and infantry, who with their families and those of the few rancheros etc. cannot have represented a pop. of less than 200, my estimate.

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[1] Data for estimating the district pop. , except at S. Jose", for which we have a regular padron, are very meagre. The size of the ayunt. 2 regidorea in 1835 may indicate a pop. between 50 and 200 in the jurisdiction. Also in 1835, the resident signers to a petition vero 30 in the contra costa. In 1837 the militia company of S. F. jurisdiction peninsula and contra costa numbered 86, which should be about ^ of the pop. And finally in 1842 a padron shows 157 gente de razon on the peninsula. In the northern frontier district there were in 1840 about 70 soldiers, cavalry and infantry, who with their families and those of the few rancheros etc. cannot have represented a pop. of less than 200, my estimate.

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