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While the social elite greatly benefited from the redistribution of mission property resulting from secularization, this manuscript reveals that other individuals also had opportunity to acquire property and land. María Silveria Pacheco, for example, lived and worked at Mission Santa Clara, where she had transformed a simple room into a house. In 1840, after the secularization of the Mission, María Silveria Pacheco turned to the Alta California government requesting ownership of this property. Governor Alvarado granted María Silveria the house as well as a considerable area of land.
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