San Mateo County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Canada De Verde Y Arroyo De La Purisima (1838)
Granted 1838 by Gov. Alvarado to Jose Maria Alvisu. Present-day San Mateo County. 8,905 acres. U.S. land case ND 350: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1838 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- Jose Maria Alvisu
- Size
- 8,905 acres, 2 square leagues
- County
- San Mateo County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- ND 350, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Jos\u00e9 Antonio Alviso, Dec. 15, 1865, 8,905.58 acres
Open Canada De Verde Y Arroyo De La Purisima on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (3 held).
United States Supreme Court
The title to this grant was litigated to the U.S. Supreme Court: 23 How. 318. Opinions from the official United States Reports at the Library of Congress.
Sources
- Boundary & land-case data: ECAI/UCSD Spanish & Mexican Land Grants (via the California Land Grants ArcGIS project)
- Land case file ND 350, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in San Mateo County
- Canada Del Corte De Madera (1833)
- Laguna De La Merced (1835)
- Miramontes (1841)
- Canada De Guadalupe La Visitacion (1841)
- Butano (1838)
- San Mateo (1846)
- Canada De Raymundo (1840)
- San Gregorio (Rogriguez) (1839)
- Buri Buri (1835)
- Pulgas (1820)