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Isaac Williams was born near Scranton, Pennsylvania and had resided in Ohio and Missouri before leaving Fort Smith in 1831, with the Bean-Sinclair trapping party for the Rocky Mountains.
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At Taos he joined the Ewing Young fur trapping expedition that arrived in Los Angeles, Alta California on April 14, 1832. After bearing three children, Maria de Jesus died in childbirth in 1842. The following year, an addition to the rancho of three square leagues (for a total of eight square leagues) was granted by Governor Micheltorena to Williams.
During the Mexican American War the Battle of Chino occurred at the adobe on September 26-27, 1846, during which 24 Americans including Williams were captured by a group of about 50 Californios.
Williams would send help to travelers on the desert road who were starving or had lost their animals, giving the travelers or their rescue parties food and sometimes horses or mules, or sent his own men out into the desert to do southern Located on the Southern Immigrant Trail the adobe became a stop and later an inn famous for its hospitality to parties of Forty-niners and later travelers.
Williams died at his home in 1856.
