Rancho Cañada de los Coches was a 28-acre (0.11 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Apolinaria Lorenzana. This small land grant was located just west of Flinn Springs and in the center of Rancho El Cajon. The San Diego Mission fathers formerly watered their swine in dry seasons at a little spring arising from subterranean sources, thus giving it its name of "Glen of the Hogs".
Apolinaria Lorenzana (1790–1884) came to California with her mother in 1800. When her mother returned to Mexico, Apolinaria moved to San Diego, under the care of Raymundo Carrillo. Apolinaria Lorenzana remained a single woman devoted to the church. As a result of her religious devotion, she was called "La Beata", meaning "the pious one". She was also grantee of Rancho Jamacha. Lorenzana continued to live at the San Diego Mission. Following a further decline in the Mission, Lorenzana moved to San Juan Capistrano in 1846.[1][2]
Lorenzana sold her Rancho Canada de los Coches to Anacleto Lestrade, a native of France, and a priest at the San Gabriel Mission 1851 -56. Lestrade was also the claimant for Rancho Rosa Castilla.
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 was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[3] and the grant was patented to Anacleto Lestrada in 1873.[4]
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