Sonoma Democrat, 17 December 1857
BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION issued out of the District Court of the Third Judicial District, in and for the County of Alameda, State of California, duly attested on the 4th day of June, A. D., 1857, and to me directed :Whereas a judgment was rendered in said Third Judicial District Court, in the Court House in said county of Alameda,on the 31st day of August, A, D.1854, against Victor Castro, and in favor of John B. Watson, for the sum of Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-nine and 22-100 dollars, with Interest thereon at 5 per cent, per month, compounded every month from the 31st day of August, A D., 1854, until paid, and the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-two and 88-100 dollars, costs of suit. A transcript of said judgment filed in the Recorder’s Office of Sonoma county on the 29th day of July, A. D., 1856, I have this, the 10th day of December, 1857, levied upon all the right, title, claim, portion, inheritance and interest which the defendant Victor Castro had on the 29th day of July, A. D. 1856. or at any time thereafter, of, in and to the following described piece or tract of Land, situated in the county of Sonoma, State aforesaid, to wit : All that part of the rancho called the “ Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa,” lying south of the Arroyo de Santa Rosa, and which is bounded and described as follows : Commencing at a stake on the bank of the said Santa Rosa Creek, running thence south 28 degrees east from the magnetic meridian, passing through the two large oak trees marked with a cross, till touching a branch which rises in a marsh, to the east of a building known as Salvador’s house; thence down said branch to its junction with the Matouzas creek ; thence to its junction with the Santa Rosa creek ; thence up the Santa Rosa creek to the place of beginning; containing 337 ½ acres of land, more or less, being the same property which by the U. S. Land Commissioners and the U. S. District Court was confirmed to Felicidad Carrillo. The above description being as to land marks as of the date of 1853, and the right, title and interest of the said defendant being the undivided two-thirds of the tract of land aforesaid; the said interest of the said Victor Castro having been derived by him by inheritance from his deceased wife, the said Felicidad Carrillo, and from the infant child of the said Victor Castro and wife, also deceased ; also all the right, title and interest of said defendant in and to that certain tract of land or rancho, situated in said county of Sonoma, and known as the Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa, granted in the year 1841 to Moria Ygnacio Lopez, and containing two square leagues of land Notice is hereby given, that on Thursday, the 7th day of January, A. D., 1858, between, the hours of 9 o’clock, A. M., and 4 o’clock, P. M., of said day, in front of the Court House door, in the town of Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, State of California, I will sell all the right, title, interest, inheritance and claim of the defendant, Castro, to the above described property for cash in hand.
E L. GREEN, Sheriff of Sonoma County. Santa Rosa.
Dec. 10th, 1857. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Justice’s Court,. County of Sonoma, Santa Rosa Township.
THE People of the State of California, to Marshall Martin, Greeting; You are hereby summoned to appear before me, at my office in Santa Rosa Township, of the county of Sonoma, on the 28th day of December, A. D., 1857, at two (2) o’clock, P. M., to answer unto Julio Carrillo, who complains that you are indebted to him in the sum of Thirty five ($35) dollars, being amount due from you the said defendant to the said plaintiff, upon a promissory note, dated February 20th, 1855, when judgment will be taken against you for the said amount, together with costs and damages, if you fail to appear and answer.
To any Sheriff or any Constable of said County, Greeting : Make legal service and due return hereof. Given under my hand this 17th day of Dec., A. D., 1857, THOMAS H. PYATT, Justice of the Peace of said Township. Santa Rosa, Dec 17,1857