Joseph Yves Limantour
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Joseph Yves Limantour was a French-Mexican merchant who engaged in the California sea trade during the years preceding American occupation of that Mexican province in 1846. He was also known in Califo
Joseph Yves Limantour
Manuel Micheltorena
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Joseph Manuel María Joaquin Micheltorena y Llano was a brigadier general and adjutant-general of the Mexican Army, governor of California, commandant-general and inspector of the department of Las Cal
Joseph Yves Limantour
…the Gale's schooner Star of Oregon for 350 cows, and then transferred ownership to Limantour. Limantour supplied the Mexican government of Governor Manuel Micheltorena with goods and loans, Limantour said often in exchange for land grants. Mexican government records were often incomplete and not well documented…
Manuel Micheltorena