Rancho Bolsa de las Escorpinas was a 6,416-acre (25.96 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Salvador Espinoza .[1] The grant was northwest of present day Salinas, bounded on the south by Espinosa Lake and Rancho Los Gatos or Santa Rita of his brother Trinidad Espinosa.[2] [3]
Salvador Maria Espinoza (1796–) married Maria Josefa Lugarda Castro (1796–1848) in 1814. Espinosa served in a number of public offices in Monterey including ]alcade and regidor. He was administrator at Mission Soledad in 1836-1839. He received the two square league Rancho Bolsa de las Escorpinas in 1837. His son, Jose Carlos Cayetano Espinosa, was the grantee of Rancho Posa de los Ositos.[4]
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Bolsa de las Escorpinas was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[5] and the grant was patented to Salvador Espinoza in 1876.[6]
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