 After secularization of the California missions, Governor Juan Bautista Alvardo granted the 12,545-acre Rancho Cañada de Raymundo which now includes the Phleger Estate to John Coppinger in 1841.Coppinger was a British seaman who deserted his ship in San Francisco in 1835 but he went on to support Governor Alvarado's revolt against the Mexico-installed Governor Gutiérrez in Monterey in 1836.When Coppinger died in 1847, his widow Maria Luisa Soto Coppinger married another Irish seaman, Captain John Greer, who sold off timber rights on the Rancho and is notable for laying out Cañada Road in 1862.