Rancho Las Salinas

Rancho Las Salinas also called El Tucho was a 17,712-acre (71.68 km2) Spanish land concession in present day Monterey County, California given in 1795 to Antonio Aceves and Antonio Romero.[1] A 4,414-acre (17.86 km2) Mexican land grant was made to Gabriel Espinosa by Mexican governor Nicolás Gutiérrez in 1839. The grant extended from present day Marina to Salinas.[2][3]

History

Antonio Quiterio Aceves and Antonio Romero held a four-league concession on the Salinas River, in 1795, one of the earliest land grants. However the grant was abandoned.[4]

A one square league Mexican grant was made to Gabriel Espinosa in 1839.

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 Las Salinas was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853,[5] and the grant was patented to Lucinda E. Pogue and the heirs of Gabriel Espinosa in 1867. Pogue received an undivided two-sevenths of the grant and each of the five children of Espinosa received one-seventh.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  2. ^ Diseño del Rancho Las Salinas
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Las Salinas
  4. ^ Hoover, Mildred B.; Hero & Ethel Rensch, and William N. Abeloe (1966). Historic Spots in California. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804744829. 
  5. ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 158 SD
  6. ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
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