Rancho San Lorenzo (Sanchez)

Rancho San Lorenzo was a 48,286-acre (195.41 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Benito and Monterey County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Rafael Sanchez.[1] The grant was east of Soberanes Rancho San Lorenzo, and bounded on the north by Topo Creek.[2]

History

Rafael Sanchez came from Mexico to California in 1842 as secretary to Governor Manuel Micheltorena. He married Maria Antonia Castro (1826-), daughter of Jose Simeon Castro, grantee of Rancho Punta del Año Nuevo and Maria Antonia Pico grantee of Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo. Sanchez was granted the eleven square league Rancho San Lorenzo by Governor Pío Pico.

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 1853,[3] and the grant was patented to Rafael Sanchez in 1870.[4]

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 San Lorenzo
  3. ↑ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 277 SD
  4. ↑ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886

Coordinates: 36°22′12″N 121°04′12″W / 36.370°N 121.070°W / 36.370; -121.070

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