Additional details on the search for
land owned by
members of the Jacob Anderson Family
in the second half of the 1800’s
in southern
In the book, The Sloopers, the author Rosdail states, that Jacob, Serena and their family,
“settled
at a locality called Soscol in
Rosdail stated that after Jacob’s death, Serena and son Andrew,
“ran a road house called Soscol House. It was the only building ever erected at their crossroads, a place where teamsters stopped for their meals” (p. 426, emphasis added).
Many
Now, with the help of Floyd Stone of the Napa
County Historical Society, we are learning more accurately what
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Deed Ref: |
Grantor to Grantee |
Consideration/Description/Comments |
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John B. Frisbie* to Jacob Anderson Signatures witnessed by David
C. Oaks (Jacob’s son-in-law) *NOTE: John Frisbie was
the son-in-law of the famous Mexican governor General M. G. Vallejo. |
$600 for 50 acres +/- “… commencing at a point on the Northern boundary of the
thousand acre reserve in said Suscol Rancho, thirty-six
and fifty-four hundredths statute chains (36 54/100)
east of the north west corner thereof, and running thence west Eleven and forty three hundredth Statute
Chains (11 43/100) to a point, thence north Forty three
and eighty one hundredths (43 81/100) Statute Chains to
the southern boundary of a tract of land known as the Jones tract, thence
easterly along the said boundary to a point north of the point of beginning,
and thence South forty-four and Eleven hundredths Statute Chains (44 11/100) to the
point of beginning and Containing Fifty Statute acres of land a little more
or less, the above bearing having reference to the [True??] This early
property purchase apparently was in the northern part of the very controversial
huge (thousands of acres) Soscol Land Grant and clear title was probably never
initially obtained. It is now believed that this 50 acre parcel could have
been located, at least in part, in Section 36, T5N, R4W, east of the Soscol House. <
for
more history & background on this area, see 26 May 1866
Agreement with Sheehy below, links below & ____> |
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David C. Oaks (Jacob’s son-in-law) to Jacob Anderson |
$1,000 for 80 acres of "Swamp and Overflowed Land more
particularly described in Survey No. 31 of the County Surveyor of Solano
County, said tract of land is that generally known by the name of Green
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3 |
Book B, p. 251, |
Survey for Jacob Anderson by |
Survey of 475 71/100 acres of “ T 4 N, R 4 W, “Sections 15 & 16 being the S ½ of NW ¼
of 15 - & fractional part of the N.E.¼ of 15, & N½ of SW¼ of 15,
fraction of N½ of S.E.¼ of 15. S½ of N.E.¼ of 16, N½ of S.E.¼ of 16. fraction
of N½ of S.W.¼ of 16, & fractional S½ of N.W.¼ of 16. – Base and |
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4 |
Book B, p. 252, |
Survey for Jacob Anderson by |
Survey of “ T 4 N, R 4 W, “Sections 9, 10, 15 & 16 being the N½ of the N.E.¼ of Sec 16 & fractional parts of N½ of NW¼ of 16, of N½ N.W.¼ of 15 – of S½ of SW¼ of 10 & S½ of S.E.¼ of 9. Base & Meridian of Mt Diablo.” (Contain the “ |
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5 |
Book B, p. 253, |
Survey for Jacob Anderson by |
Survey of 286 84/100 acres of “ T 4 N, R 4 W, “Sections 9 & 10 being the S½ of NW ¼ of
Sec 10 & fractional parts of the N½ of S.W.¼ of 10 - of N½ of SE¼ of 10 -
of S½ of N.E.¼ of 10. of S½ of N.W.¼ of 9 - and of N½ of S.E.¼ of 9. – Base
and |
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6 |
NAPA: G-465 3 May 1862 |
Jacob Anderson to Andrew J. Anderson (his son) & signed by both “Jacob Anderson” & “Sarena Anderson” |
$1,000 for 160 acres +/- “… the North East quarter of Section one (1) Township Number four (4) north of Range Number four (4) west of the Mount Diablo base line and Meridian…” |
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NAPA: G-467 3 May 1862 |
Andrew J. Anderson to Jacob Anderson (his father) |
$320 for 320 acres +/- “… certain piece or parcel of land … known as Tule lands and bounded as follows towit: on the west Side by Napa Creek on the South by tule lands of Jacob Anderson [Jr?] on the east Side by lands Claimed by Peter Fagan on the north by lands Claimed by Peter Fagan and Waterson …” |
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County Surveyed & Unsurveyed Lands, Bk B, p. 72 7 Feb 1863 |
County of Napa to Jacob Anderson |
Down payment of $133.20 (20% of price) for 475 71/100 acres surveyed and described in #3 above. |
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26 May 1866 |
Robert Sheehy (of S.F.) to A.J. Anderson etc., heirs of Jacob Anderson, Deceased |
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We welcome any suggestions, corrections or additions to the above summaries. Please e-mail Keith |
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If the Jacob Anderson family actually owned all of the parcels described above, they would have owned at various times, or at one time, over 1,200 acres in southern Napa County, and that is not counting the poorly described 320 acres of #7, which may have been part of the other “Tule lands” of #3-5. It does appear that some of these property titles were moved around among family members and there are indications that some of the property was put in Jacob’s son’s name prior to Jacob’s death. Clear title to some of the earlier purchased land may have never been obtained.
Jacob died in May of 1864 just short of 57 years of age. Apparently Jacob died without a will and the Napa Probate Court directed his wife Serena, acting as Administratrix, to sell his holdings. From the probate records (NAPA: Book of Deeds J, pp. 420-21, 16 Mar 1867; see transcript>>) we know that Jacob owned the following land at the time of his death:
- 80
acres that contained “
- 475 71/100 acres described in Survey No. 96½ in #3 above.
This gives the total of 555 71/100 acres of real property that had to be sold to settle the estate. By the time the estate was settled in 1867, Jacob’s youngest son, Jacob Jr., had been deceased for several months and his only surviving son, Andrew J. Anderson, was the only one apparently seriously interested in keeping his father’s property. The two eldest surviving daughters, Martha and Isabelle, had by this time left the Napa area with their husbands; the youngest, Julia, had not yet turned 12. The son Andrew J. was the highest bidder on the property and obtained title to the property for the sum of $500 in gold coin.
Sometime between this settlement date in 1867 and the 1870
US Census, Andrew J., his wife Melissa, his mother Serena, his young sister
Julia, all moved back to where the family still owned property in southwest
Iowa. Records of the disposal of the
Background Links:
These
excellent history articles are made available by The Reporter newspaper of Vacaville, CA. We
thank them for sharing this information on the Internet.
Gen.
Vallejo sets out to tame the territories – Delaplane’s “Echoes
of Solano’s past” – Sep. 17, 1995
Vallejo:
Dignified in face of adversity - Delaplane’s “Echoes
of Solano’s past” – Sep. 24, 1995
City
straddled Solano-Napa border – Bowen’s “Solano: The Way It Was”
– Aug. 24, 2003
The rise
and decline of Soscol City - Bowen’s “Solano: The Way It Was” –
Sep. 7, 2003
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