Amador County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Arroyo Seco (1841)
Granted 1841 by Gov. Alvarado to Teodocio Yorba. Present-day Amador County. 48,857 acres. U.S. land case ND 199: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1841 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- Teodocio Yorba
- Size
- 48,857 acres, 11 square leagues
- County
- Amador County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- ND 199, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Jospeh M. Moss, H.W. Carpentier, Edward F. Beal, and Herman Wholer on, Apl. 29, 1865, 48,857.52 acres, General Land Office patent no. 99
Open Arroyo Seco on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Family
The grantee belongs to the Yorba 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 199, Bancroft Library (digicoll)