Background
José de los Santos Berreyesa was born in Yerba Buena (present day San Francisco) in northern Alta California of Mexico. He was the sixth child and fourth son of José de los Reyes Berreyesa.
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Career
Fluent to a high degree in both English and Spanish, he served as a witness on many land grant cases before the Public Land Commission in the 1850s and 1860s. Berreyesa served as the alcalde at the Mexican Presidio of Sonoma. The dead were stripped of their belongings, and left for Mission Indians to bury.
When Berreyesa asked whether his father had been killed, Frémont said it might have been a man named Castro.
A soldier of Frémont"s was seen wearing the father"s serape, and Frémont refused to assist Berreyesa in retrieving it as a final token of his father to give to his mother. The three Berreyesa brothers resorted to buying the serape from the soldier for the extortionate price of $25.
Later, Carson told Jasper O"Farrell that he regretted killing the Californios, but that the act was only one such that Frémont ordered him to commit. Family
Berreyesa married Francisca Ignacis Martínez (1824–1907), a twin daughter of Ygnacio Martínez.
Rancho Mallacomes
Berreyesa received the 17,742-acre (7180 km2) Mexican land grant of Rancho Mallacomes from Governor Manuel Micheltorena in 1843.
lieutenant was located in the Napa Valley, within present day in Napa County, California. After the United States. statehood of California (1850), as required by the Land Acting of 1851, a claim for Rancho Mallacomes was filed by Berreyesa in 1852 with the Public Land Commission. 12,540 acres (507 km2) was patented by the United States. to his estate in 1873.
José de los Santos Berreyesa died in Martinez, California on October 30, 1864.
