Camilo Ynitia

In 1775 the Presidio of San Francisco sent an exploring party into the north bay country and Camilo's father, chief at Olompali, made them welcome.

Historians think that the natives that built the house had learned how to make adobe bricks at the Mission San Francisco.

(The other native to receive a land grant was Vallejo's close friend, the Suisunes Chief Solano.)

This land grant was confirmed by the American government after control of California was transferred to the United States.

The adobe home as adapted by Camilo had walls 32 inches (810 mm) thick, and ceilings 8 feet (2.4 m) high.

[citation needed] At the time of the Californian revolution known as the Bear Flag Revolt, on 24 June 1846 the Battle of Olompali occurred when a violent skirmish broke out at Camilo's adobe between a troop of American Bear Flaggers from Sonoma and a Mexican force of 50 from Monterey, under the command of Joaquín de la Torre.

[citation needed] Camilo eventually had to sell most of Rancho Olompali to James Black on 13 August 1852 for $5,200, but retained 1,480 acres (6.0 km2) called Apalacocha.

Juan Pablo was born in 1839; he died in a boating accident on 28 May 1851 along with the father of the man who would marry Maria Antonia.

Cayetana died 21 November 1850, and Camilo married his fourth wife, Susanna Maria on 5 January 1852.

Camilo conveyed approximately 20 acres (81,000 m2) in the extreme southwest corner of Apalacocha to John on 14 February 1853.

On 26 November 1860, "Being in want of money for a Maintenance," Maxima and Maria sold Apalacocha, to John Knight, their Mendocino attorney, for $3,693.

"[9] It is said that Camilo buried all his gold from his sale to James Black on a mountainside, because when he died he had very little money on record.

One theory is his last wife or family knew where the gold was and unburied it later to assist them in purchasing cattle and part of Rancho Sanel in Mendocino County.