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SAN BENITO COUNTY
Old California
Don Manuel Larios
Much of Larios’s prosperity came from the influence of his friend, Juan Anzar, who had met Larios in Monterey when he was stationed there. Anzar made Larios the overseer of his lands and the entwined fortunes of the two men flourished. Mexico had won its independence from Spain by then, and new opportunities presented themselves. In 1839, Larios and his patron bought 48,823 acres of the Santa Ana y Quien Sabe Rancho, and Larios bought 4,439 acres on the edge of San Juan Bautista that had  originally belonged to Mission San Juan
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"Rancho Santa Ana y Quien Sabe"

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