Santa Clara County · Spanish era grants (to 1821)
Rancho Las Animas (1803)
Granted 1803 by Gov. Marquinas to Mariano Castro. Present-day Santa Clara County. 26,518 acres. U.S. land case ND 136: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1803 by Governor Marquinas
- Grantee
- Mariano Castro
- Size
- 26,518 acres
- County
- Santa Clara County, California
- Period
- Spanish era grants (to 1821)
- U.S. land case
- ND 136, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to the heirs of Jose Maria Sanchez, Mar. 15, 1873, 26,518.68 acres, General Land Office patent no. 224
Open Las Animas on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (27 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Castro family, one of the landholding dynasties of Mexican California.
Sources
- Boundary & land-case data: ECAI/UCSD Spanish & Mexican Land Grants (via the California Land Grants ArcGIS project)
- Land case file ND 136, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Santa Clara County
- Posolmi (1844)
- El Potrero De Santa Clara (1844)
- Rincon De Los Esteros (Berryessa) (1838)
- Rinconada Del Arroyo De San Francisquito (1841)
- Rincon De Los Esteros (Alviso) (1838)
- Ulistac (1845)
- Unnamed grant (SD 325) (1839)
- San Ysidro (Gilroy) (1833)
- San Ysidro (Ortega) (1833)
- Milpitas (Alviso) (1830)
- La Purisima Concepcion (1840)
- Tularcitos (Higuera) (1821)
- La Polka (1833)
- Pala (1835)