Letter from Memorialist Mariana Day to Congress, 1870
Among the papers sent to Congress to prove ownership of the land was a letter from Mariana Day—a former Mexican citizen married to an American and the current occupant of a portion of the land. Her husband, Thomas Day, had purchased the land from Luis Mesa before he died.
The memorialist, Mariana Day, requested that the claim of the heirs of Luis Mesa "be presented to the U.S. District Court" so that "relief may be granted to remove the disability which now exists in the title to said Rancho." Mrs. Day referenced a similar case that was decided in favor of the petitioner as evidence that the request was legitimate.
Letter from Memorialist Mariana Day to Congress requesting a resolution to the disputed land claim (1870); Records of the United States Senate, RG 46.
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