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Den, Bell, and Luton Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-07
Abstract
The papers of the Den, Bell, and Luton Families are focused largely on land ownership by brothers Nicholas and Richard Den, early settlers of Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, and their heirs. They highlight the transition in land tenure during the Mexican period and early years of California statehood as well as the inner operations of land and oil development in Santa Barbara County during the first part of the twentieth century.
Dates:
1784 - 1974
Found in:
Presidio Research Center
Clifton F. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-35
Dates:
1828-1996
Found in:
Presidio Research Center
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- Subject: Land tenure X
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- Subject
- California--History--To 1846 1
- Church lands 1
- Deeds 1
- Diaries 1
- Inventories of decedents’ estates 1
- Leases 1
- Oil and gas leases 1
- Ranches 1
- Rancho Dos Pueblos (Calif.) 1
- Rancho Las Armas (Calif.) 1
- Rancho Los Prietos (Calif.) 1
- Rancho San Marcos (Calif.) 1
- Rancho Tequepis (Calif.) 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 1
- Spanish; Castilian 1
- Names
- Bell, John Stewart 1
- Bell, Katherine M., 1844-1926 1
- Chaboya, Anastacio 1
- Den, Nicholas Augustus 1
- Den, Richard S. 1
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