Hi, In case you haven't been to this link it is great for old maps. http://www.livgenmi.com/1895 Leighton is listed on it. Cow creek runs from The Sacramento river just outside of Anderson up into the hills outside of whitmore. Janie At 12:30 AM 7/20/99 EDT, LolaGF@aol.com wrote: >I sent for my Greatgrandfather's John CHRISTENSEN'S land records and just >received them back today. Some months ago we discussed where Cow Creek was >located, because he still has a living daughter and all she can remember is >Cow Creek! >John's witness' were H.J. KAH, P.W. Arnold, J.W. CONLAN, J.J. KELLY, all from >Leighton. In these land records it had to be proven that John had lived on >the premises. It was ag. land, At one point someone had mispelled his last >name doing a sOn instead of sEn. So, just by a stroke of luck there is a hand >written document from the S.F. Court, that says Certified copy of act of >Naturalization. He had to prove that he was the one and only John >Christensen, because of the misspelling. The Affidavit from the land office >at Redding Cal. dated July 29, 1893, John CHRISTENSEN of Leighton, Shasta Co. >Cal, applying to enter file for a Homestead. He was living on the land in >1866. He had a total of 150 acres. He was 40 yrs. old at the time. > >If is not under water, how would a person now find out where the location of >this land be? > >Just to let everyone know, it took 60 days to get these records from the >National Archives. > >Thank you >Jean Hehn > > >