RANCHO PRIMER CANON O RIO DE LOS BERRENDOS
LAMBERT M. SURHONE, MARIAM T. TENNOE, SUSAN F. HENSSONOW
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Rancho Primer Canon o Rio de Los Berrendos was a 26,637-acre (107.80 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Tehama County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Job Francis Dye.
Rio de Los Berrendos means River of the Antelopes.
The grant was on the east side of the Sacramento River and was bounded by Antelope Creek on the north and Rancho Rio de los Molinos and Dye Creek on the south.
Job Francis Dye (1807-1883) was born in Allen County, Kentucky.
He arrived via New Mexico in Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1832 with the Ewing Young Party.
He worked for Captain John B.R.
Cooper on his Rancho El Sur, then rented a portion of Joaquin Buelna's Rancho Zayante near Santa Cruz, and created a small grist mill and a distillery.
In 1839, Dye married Escolastica Rodriguez (b.1822).
Dye arrived at his six square league grant in the company of Robert Hasty Thomes (Rancho Saucos), Albert G. Toomes (Rancho Rio de los Molinos), and William Chard (Rancho Las Flores).
