Napa County CA Archives Obituaries.....English, Daniel March 14, 1868
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Source: [Lyman L. Palmer], History of Napa and Lake Counties, California (San Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881), pages 149-150.

Killing of DANIEL ENGLISH.---On the evening of March 14, 1868, a party of
Americans, consisting of Daniel and Charles English, two brothers, Albert
Haines, J. C. Jones, R. Coddington, B. B. Durbin and W. D. Treanor, went to the
house of Dolores Coronado, in Spanishtown, (East Napa,) where a dance was in
progress. In a short time some difficulty sprang up between the Americans and
Spaniards, and Coronado attacked Dan English with a revolver. His brother
Charles came to his rescue with a pistol in his hand, when a Spaniard by the
name of Anastacia grabbed it from him and began firing at him. Both of the
English boys were severely wounded, and Dan died soon after, but Charley
recovered. The following is the verdict of the Coroner's jury: "We, the
Coroner's jury, convened to examine into the case, on investigation do find that
the name of the deceased was Daniel English, a native of the United States, and
resident of Solano County, California, aged thirty-four years, and that he came
to his death by a pistol-shot, which pistol was in the hands of Dolores
Coronado, and was fired on the evening of the 14th of March, in the county of
Napa, State of California, at the house of Dolores Coronado." This made the
fifth brother who had died a violent death. It does not seem that the Spaniard
was held, for in a few days afterwards he came to a hotel in Merced County, kept
by Dr. Griffiths, with whom he quarreled, and who shot and killed him.

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