Alameda County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Arroyo De La Alameda (1842)
Granted 1842 by Gov. Alvarado to J. de Jesus Vallejo. Present-day Alameda County. 17,705 acres. U.S. land case ND 060: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1842 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- J. de Jesus Vallejo
- Size
- 17,705 acres, 4 square leagues
- County
- Alameda County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- ND 060, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to José de Jesús Vallejo, Jan. 1, 1858, 17,705.38 acres, General Land Office patent no. 133
Open Arroyo De La Alameda on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (19 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Vallejo 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 060, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Alameda County
- San Lorenzo (Soto) (1841)
- Agua Caliente (1839)
- San Leandro (1842)
- Potrero De Las Cerritos (1844)
- Santa Rita (1839)
- Las Positas (1839)
- San Lorenzo (Castro) (1841)