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THE SANCHEZ FILE, Appendix A
Inventory of the Estate of José
María Sánchez as submitted by
administrator Samuel C. Head
to Probate Court, May 23, 1853
REAL ESTATE (the ranchos)
1. Rancho Las Animas
16,000 acres at $5.00
$80,000
2. Rancho Llano del
Tequisquite
1 1/2 chains 12,000
Improvements 1,000
TOTAL
13,000
3. Rancho Lomerias Muertas
1 1/2 chains
16,000
Improvements
5,000
TOTAL
21,000
4. Part of Rancho
San Antonio German
on the north side of the Pájaro River
1,000 acres at 8.00
8,000
5. Lot and house
in Monterey
750
6. Lot in Monterey
on James St. 70 x 100 varas
granted by Walter Colton, Dec.27, 1847
75
7. Lot in Monterey
on John St. 60 x 60 varas
granted by Walter Colton, Dec. 27, 1847
50
8. Frame house on
the Alameda in San Juan
400
9. Four lots in
San Juan
80
10. Lot and adobe in San Juan
450
TOTAL REAL ESTATE
$123,805
MORTGAGES, NOTES, AND CASH
1. Juan and Nicodemus Gilroy
note
recorded in Santa Clara,
May 27, 1851
1,250
2. Antonio German note on Rancho
La Brea
1,500
3. Thomas Doak, Balance of mortgage
240
4. Refugio Galindo, note
1,000
5. Widow Encarnación
Sánchez, money found on the
premises
and used for her benefit. She has
acknowledged
this debt to the administrator
3,215
6. Cash found in house of
deceased
3,555
TOTAL- MORTGAGES, NOTES AND CASH
$20,760
LIVESTOCK
3,000 head of cattle @
18.00
54,000
10 yoke of oxen 100.00
1,000
38 tame mares
35.00
1,330
45 horses
60.00
2,700
6 mules
100.00
600
76 wild mares
25.00
1,900
26 colts
10.00
260
1 jackass
125
58 hogs
21.00
1,218
500
sheep and lambs 7.00
3,500
TOTAL STOCK
$66,633
PERSONAL PROPERTY
2 large wagons
@ 25.00
250
1 smaller
wagon
125
1 California
cart
30
12 Calf yokes
20
6 cut
leaf tobacco
25.00
150
185 dozen cigars
.60
111
50 fanegas beans
.04
200
500 cakes of soap
.06
30
1 bolt
of carpeting
30
1 large
pump
50
1 pair
sheet yards
5
saddle leathers
50
4 large
iron boilers
30.00
120
2 lg
copper boilers
50
1 set
inferior carpenter's tools
10
1 set
of blacksmith tools
100
2 iron
cooking stoves
50
10 trunks
70
household furniture
100
TOTAL PERSONAL PROPERTY
$1,551
SUPPLEMENTAL INVENTORY, DISCOVERED
LATER
2,136 head of cattle
@ 18.00
38,448
1 damaged flat boat found sunk in the
Pájaro River by the Administrator.
Raised and now laying upon the bank
of the river
50
* see NOTE end of screen
Total supplemental inventory
38,498
Previously listed
12,749
sub total
$251,247
Add other assets and transfers
of funds
56,115
GRAND TOTAL
$307,362
*NOTE
The flat boat may be the ferry
that figured in Sánchez's death. During the storm of 1852 the Pájaro
River ran deep. After the boat sunk it remained hidden until the dry summer
when the river lowered and the boat was exposed, dragged up on the bank
and found damaged, probably from being rammed by the tree trunk.
The Pájaro River, usually placid, can still
cause serious flooding. During the storms of early 1995 there was heavy
flooding in Castroville and adjacent farmlands, and to the river's
namesake, the community of Pajaro, adjacent to Watsonville.
Appendix Appendix B. of sales
by Sheriff Roach at the Rancho