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PEACEMAKER: Count de Mofras advocated that France acquire 'the entire harbor of San Francisco, the key to the Pacific Ocean'
Dona Teresa’s opinion of Count de Mofras is the lowest on record. Others range from the mild opprobrium of vecino Alvarado to enthusiastic French reviews of his Travels on the West Coast. Seno… more →
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SUSANNA BRYANT DAKIN: Forward to 'The Lives of William Hartnell,' pages vii - viii
goyodelarosa wrote 3 months ago: FORWARD My knowledge of the many lives of William Hartnell comes entirely from primary sources, from … more →
THE LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL By SUSANNA BRYANT DAKIN: fascinating study of a many-faceted personality
goyodelarosa wrote 3 months ago: Here is the biography of an Englishman who died a Californian in the year 1854 – a man who pos … more →
PEACEMAKER: DONA 'TERESA DE LA GUERRA HARTNELL lived on at Alisal into the eighties, surrounded by children and children's children' ... THE END of Susanna Bryant Dakin's 1949 history of Alta California, 'The Lives of William Hartnell'
goyodelarosa wrote 3 months ago: William Hartnell’s contribution to California history is difficult to define. He created a pl … more →
PEACEMAKER: DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL: 'I appoint as my sole executor ... my dearly beloved wife Maria Teresa de la Guerra' [Hartnell]'
goyodelarosa wrote 3 months ago: “I do further declare that I hearby constitute and appoint as my sole executor, and as Tutor a … more →
PEACEMAKER: 'It was no longer within Dona Teresa's power to aid her husband [William Edward Petty Hartnell], save that her herbs and salves eased his pain, and her presence always comforted him.'
goyodelarosa wrote 3 months ago: When he returned to Alisal, when his laborious task was done, Hartnell wrote to the secretary of sta … more →
PEACEMAKER: DONA TERESA DE LA GUERRA HARTNELL + DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL 'looked forward to the coming of another child, the eighteenth and last a - a little boy named Benjamin Armejo, who did not live very long'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 months ago: Hartnell did not yield to the gold-mining craze but, with Don Juan Alvarado, decided to develop a si … more →
PEACEMAKER: In San Francisco DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL 'made a new friend, an anomaly in the rough, masculine city...Italian portrait painter Leonardo Barbieri'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 months ago: Overnight, almost, she had become a crude American city, powerless to resist the horde of “ar … more →
PEACEMAKER: MONTEREY ALCALDE REV. WALTER COLTON, 'overworked and underfed, fell ill at this time, and would have been in serious condition had it not been for Dona Teresa [de la Guerra] Hartnell'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 months ago: Even the Indians caught the fever and, within a month, members of the gente de razon who remained in … more →
PEACEMAKER: 'A little daughter named Margarita Amelia was born to Dona Teresa [de la Guerra Hartnell] and Don Guillermo [Hartnell] on February 22, 1847'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 months ago: This interview with Dona Teresa put the lonely and disgruntled officer in such a good frame of mind … more →
PEACEMAKER: American Lieutenant Wise 'found the Senora [Teresa de la Guerra Hartnell] sensible, good-humoured, and what was more notable, the mother of fourteen male and five female children'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 months ago: Hutton was welcome in such homes as Hartnell’s and Jimeno’s because of mutual interests … more →
PEACEMAKER: "Mrs. [Teresa de la Guerra] Hartnell ... was too much engrossed by the care of her twenty children (or thereabouts) to give much attention to literature - but her house was always gay"
goyodelarosa wrote 4 months ago: For a time, a naval officer from New York named Selim Woodworth, and Philip Roach of the New York Vo … more →
PEACEMAKER: 'Dona Teresa [de la Guerra Hartnell], aided by Teresita, and even the younger daughters, ran both the ranch household [Alisal] and la casa Arnel in Monterey'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 months ago: In strange contrast to the tumult of the next few years in California was the life lived by William … more →
PEACEMAKER: Captain John C. 'Fremont's men, two hundred strong, turned from El Camino Real and started up the side road ... right on to the Hartnell home site' of Rancho Alisal
goyodelarosa wrote 4 months ago: General Vallejo ended the speeches with a stirring appeal for annexation, then and there, to the Uni … more →
PEACEMAKER: Duflot de Mofras wanted to avenge 'the deplorable loss of Canada + Louisiana' by grouping 'French-Spanish Catholics' of California around San Francisco to form 'a new French America!'
goyodelarosa wrote 5 months ago: Dona Teresa’s opinion of Count de Mofras is the lowest on record. Others range from the mild … more →
PEACEMAKER: Count de Mofras advocated that France acquire 'the entire harbor of San Francisco, the key to the Pacific Ocean'
goyodelarosa wrote 5 months ago: Dona Teresa’s opinion of Count de Mofras is the lowest on record. Others range from the mild … more →
PEACEMAKER: Dona Teresa de la Guerra Hartnell 'told a fantastic tale of well-known writer + world traveller, Count Duflot de Mofras'
goyodelarosa wrote 5 months ago: He was a French diplomat carrying a letter from his king to the man who so often had acted as host t … more →
DONA TERESA DE LA GUERRA HARTNELL found French Count Duflot de Mofras 'dead drunk' on her husband Don Guillermo Hartnell's library floor
goyodelarosa wrote 5 months ago: It is not surprising that the hearing was long-drawn-out and unsuccessful, for Jones had not endeare … more →
PEACEMAKER: 'The Hartnell position became comparable, in the capital [Monterey] to that of the de la Guerras in Santa Barbara'
goyodelarosa wrote 5 months ago: In the first half of that decade, ideas of empire which had been brewing for a long time suddenly be … more →
DONA TERESA DE LA GUERRA HARTNELL WOULD SMOKE + 'SERVE IN A QUEENLY WAY WHATEVER HER DAUGHTERS PRODUCED. MUSIC USUALLY FOLLOWED REFRESHMENTS', page 243 of DAKINS' 'THE LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL'; Leonardo Barbieri portrait of Dona Teresa de la Guerra Hartnell, 1853; RANCHO ALISAL
goyodelarosa wrote 10 months ago: RANCHO ALISAL, SALINAS, CALIFORNIA: LA CASA DE LA FAMILIA DE LA GUERRA -HARTNELL In the first half o … more →
