Francisco Gastelum

Katherine Wagner, “Native of Arica: Requiem for a Don,” Journal of San Diego History, Spring 1971:

Don Juan [Bandini] purchased from the owner Don Francisco Xavier Gastelum that portion of the Rancho of Ensenada de Todos Santos on which his mine was located. [Gastelum to Bandini, Dec. 18, 1845, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Box 89.]

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Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen, La “Fiebra del Oro” en Baja California, Región y Sociedad, 2007 (http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/102/10203805.pdf):

En febrero de 1851, se anunció en el Daily Alta California el descubrimiento de un rico yacimiento de oro en el valle de San Rafael, a unos 64 kilómetros al sur de la frontera. El sitio se encontraba en los límites del Rancho San Rafael, propriedad de Francisco Xavier Gastélum y su familia.

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Samuel Truett, Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, p. 110 (http://books.google.com/books?id=XutSuKkNTcgC&pg=PA110&dq=gastelum&...):

[In the 1860s, Manuel Clemente] Rojo records a conversation with Don Francisco Xavier Gastélum (one of the respected Baja Californianos who befriended him and whom he interviewed) in which Gastélum claimed that the Dominican priests were responsible for all the colonial Indian rebellions, because of their practice of forcibly baptizing Indians against their will, making them work too hard, and treating them poorly. Rojo notes that through Gastelum he met an Indian (Jatnil), described as the leader of an insurrection ...

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Ensenada's Early History (http://www.truetraveler.com/may_2004.htm):

In 1849, a visit to the huge cattle ranch owned by the Senor Francisco Gastelum, an elegant Spanish man who had many of the conveniences of what was then considered civilized life of that era, would reveal clean tables, with table furniture and the first knives and forks to be seen in this country.

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Pioneer Notes: Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875 (Los Angeles, 1929):

[January 22, 1861:] [We] stop at the house of Don Juan Abila [near San Diego.] . . . . As we take our seats, news is brought that Don Francisco Gastellun is dead. They commonly call him the Sargento Gastellun, an old soldier of Lower California. He has been long sick with asthma; the troubles in La Frontera have made him a traveller, I might say an exile, in his old age, and at an unfavorable season for his infirmity. He died at Mr. Forster’s house at sunset, just as we entered the town.

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Preguntas y respuestas http://www.loscalifornianos.org/queries_171-180.htm:

FRANCISCO JAVIER GASTELUM was born about 1784 in El Fuerte, Sinaloa. He was a soldier in northern Baja California; promoted to corporal in 1811. In 1820 he was a sergeant. He arrived in Ensenada about 1824. Received Rancho San Rafael in 1826. In 1835 he was deputy mayor (alcalde auxiliar) of the northern territory, at San Vicente. He was justice of the peace (juez de paz) 1837-38. During the invasion of William Walker in 1854 his Ensenada ranch was robbed and sacked, and he was forced to sell it to his son-in-law, PEDRO GASTELUM (1861). He married SALVADORA, daughter of JOSÉ MANUEL RUIZ.