[1] The grant, west of Woodland, extended 2 leagues along both sides of Rio de Jesús María, now known as Cache Creek.
[2] William Henry Gordon (1801-1876), a native of Ohio, was a fur trapper who went to New Mexico in 1823, where he married Maria Lucero (1805-1844), her sister being the wife of Cyrus Alexander.
Gordon and his family came to California with the Workman-Rowland Party, arriving in Los Angeles in 1841.
In 1842 Gordon went north to Sonoma, and in 1843, was granted the two square league Rancho Quesesosi, becoming the pioneer settler of Yolo County.
[4][5][6] Gordon lived on the ranch until 1866, when he sold it, and moved to Cobb Valley in Lake County, where he died in 1876.