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GOMEZ-GONGORA. 759 Don Joaquin was reported to the govt at Wash, by Larkin as a man of prop erty and character, friendly to the U.S.; in 48 Los Verjclcs was advertised for sale for the benefit of creditors. He had a son and a daughter, Dolores, who came to Cal. after his arrival. The latter married and died at Mont, after 78. G. (Jos6 Maria), soldier in S.F. comp. 19-20; killed by Lid. 29. iii. 110. Gomez (Jose" Miguel), 1842, Mex. priest who served as curate at Purisima in 42-4, and at S. Luis Ob. in 44-56; claimant for S. Simeon rancho. iv. 371, 421, 426, 647-8, 656-7, 659; v. 638-9. G. (Juan), soldier of S.F. comp. 19. G. (Juan), 1834, mr of the Natalia, and of the Leonidas 36. iii. 265-7, 383; iv. 104. G. (Juan), son of Rafael, resid. of Mont, and S.F. in 75-85, who gave me the privilege of copying a col. of his father s Doc. Hist. Cal. G. (Manuel), Mex. sergt of artill. at S. F. and Mont, from 16; lieut from 19; left Cal. in 22. Biog. ii. 470; ment. ii. 225-32, 247, 263, 371, 422, 451, 454, 461. G. (Nicolas), one of the mission guard at S. Juan Cap. 1776. i. 303. G. (Pedro), executed at Sta Cruz 47 for killing his wife. v. 641. G. (Rafael), convict settler at S. Jose" 1798-1808. i. 606, 638; ii. 192. Gomez (Rafael), 1830, Mex. lawyer who came to Cal. as asesor, or legal adviser of the govt, a relation of Joaquin. ii. 607, 677; ii. 46, 54. As a sup porter of Gov. Victoria, or rather by his legal opinions in the criminal cases of 31, he excited considerable opposition among the Californians, and tried to escape after V. s downfall; but failed and was not molested, iii. 190-2, 195, 213, 660-1; grantee of Sta Rosa in 31. iii. 713, 721; iv. 160; supports Zamo- rano 32. iii. 222-3; action in P. Mercado s case 33. iii. 324; supports Figue- roa ; 34. iii. 277; but resigned his office. He was grantee of Tularcitos in 34. iii. 679; regidor at Mont. 35. iii. 673; memb. of the dip. in 36, also ap pointed agent in Mex., but did not go. iii. 426, 454; being at this time 36 years old; wife Josefa Estrada, child. Felipe b. 33, Maria Isabel 34, Juan 35. His Diario de Cosas Notables de 36 (erroneously accredited to his son in list of auth. ) I have found to be a very useful document, iii. 422. A few years after 36, at his rancho of Tularcitos, he was accidentally killed by being en tangled in the reata of a horse he was trying to drive away from his grain. Don Rafael was a man of good character and a lawyer of much ability, who came to Cal. in reality as a kind of political exile. G. (Teodoro), soldier at Soledad 1791-1800. i. 499. G. (Vicente), 1825. Mex. guerrillero chief in the war of independence; a fiend known as El Capador, who, however, be haved well enough in Cal. during his stay of a few months, iii. 16. Gomez (Vicente Perfecto), 1842, son of Jose Joaquin and nat. of Guadala jara, who came to Cal. as a clerk with Gov. Micheltorena. In 44 he was, or at least claimed later to have been, the grantee of the Panocha Grande ran cho. iv. 655, 672. This grant, rejected by the courts, was the foundation of the famous McGarragan claim to the New Idria quicksilver mines; and Don Vicente is the villain of Bret Harte s Story of a Mine. He was also the unsuccessful claimant for Tucho. iv. 656. In 45 he was sec. of the juzgado at Mont. iv. 653; aided Manuel Castro in Nov. 46. v. 366; had a Cal. claim of 11,500, of which 500 was paid (v. 462); and in 47-S was for a time in charge of S. Antonio mission, v. 640. As a witness in later land litigation he met with some severe criticism, much of it doubtless undeserved; and though an intelligent clerk and good penman, knowing little English, he had a hard time in the later years to pay his grog bills. In 75-6 he worked for me in the Library and various archives, doing much faithful service. Many were the stories he told of old times in Cal.; his fellow-laborers were instructed to write out his yarns; and the result is a large vol. of MS. called Gomez, Lo Qne tSabe, full of interest, and by no means devoid of historic value. He died at Mont, in 84 at the age of about 60, a better man in several respects than he has been given credit for. He had no family. /-I f __ /T__y A_i. _ ~C T e ~T K !*>?( S. Antonio 73; sergt from 75; ment. in connection with Anza s exped. 76. i, 269-71, 287. In 79 Gov. Neve reported against his promotion; and in 82