Napa County · Pío Pico (1845–1846)
Rancho Chimiles (1846)
Granted 1846 by Gov. Pio Pico to Jose Ygnacio Berreyesa. Present-day Napa County. 762 acres. U.S. land case ND 043: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1846 by Governor Pio Pico
- Grantee
- Jose Ygnacio Berreyesa
- Size
- 762 acres, 4 square leagues
- County
- Napa County, California
- Period
- Pío Pico (1845–1846)
- U.S. land case
- ND 043, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to William Gordan and Nathan Coombs, Dec. 19, 1860, 762.44 acres, General Land Office patent no. 89
Open Chimiles on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (2 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Berreyesa 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 043, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Napa County
- Mallacomes Or Moristul (1841)
- La Jota (1843)
- Entre Napa (1836)
- Locoallomi (1841)
- Caymus (1836)
- Catacula (1844)
- Tulucay (1841)
- Yajome (1841)
- Huichica (1841)
- Napa (1838)
- Carne Humana (1841)
- Las Putas (1843)