San Diego County · Pío Pico (1845–1846)
Rancho Monserate (1846)
Granted 1846 by Gov. Pio Pico to Y. M. Alvarado. Present-day San Diego County. 13,322 acres. U.S. land case SD 224: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1846 by Governor Pio Pico
- Grantee
- Y. M. Alvarado
- Size
- 13,322 acres, 3 square leagues
- County
- San Diego County, California
- Period
- Pío Pico (1845–1846)
- U.S. land case
- SD 224, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Isidro Alvarado, July 17, 1872, 13,322.90 acres, General Land Office patent no. 506
Open Monserate 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 Alvarado 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 224, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
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- Cuca (1845)
- Guajome (1845)
- Otay (Dominguez) (1829)
- Otay (Estudillo) (1846)
- San Dieguito (1845)
- Agua Hedionda (1842)
- Pauma (1844)
- Guejito (1845)
- Rincon Del Diablo (1843)
- Valle De San Felipe (1846)
- Jamul (1831)
- Los Vallecitos De San Marcos (1840)
- Los Penasquitos (1835)
- Santa Ysabel (1844)