San Benito County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Cienega De Los Paicines (1842)
Granted 1842 by Gov. Alvarado to Angel Castro. Present-day San Benito County. 8,917 acres. U.S. land case SD 220: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1842 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- Angel Castro
- Size
- 8,917 acres, 2 square leagues
- County
- San Benito County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- SD 220, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Angel Castro et al, Sept. 23, 1869, 8,917.52 acres, General Land Office patent no. 268
Open Cienega De Los Paicines on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (1 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 SD 220, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in San Benito County
- San Joaquin (1837)
- Lomerias Muertas (1842)
- Los Aromitas Y Agua Caliente (1835)
- Bolsa De San Felipe (1837)
- San Justo (1839)
- Real De Las Aguilas (1844)
- Santa Ana Y Quien Sabe (1839)