Santa Barbara County · Spanish era grants (to 1821)
Rancho Nuestra Senora Del Refugio (1794)
Granted 1794 by a Spanish governor to Antonio M. Ortega. Present-day Santa Barbara County. 26,529 acres. U.S. land case SD 154: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1794 by Governor a Spanish governor
- Grantee
- Antonio M. Ortega
- Size
- 26,529 acres
- County
- Santa Barbara County, California
- Period
- Spanish era grants (to 1821)
- U.S. land case
- SD 154, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Antonio M. Ortega and Magdelena Cota de Ortega, July 28, 1866, 26,529.30 acres, General Land Office patent no. 379
Open Nuestra Senora Del Refugio on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Family
The grantee belongs to the Ortega 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 154, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Santa Barbara County
- Las Positas Y La Calera (1843)
- La Zaca (1838)
- La Goleta (1846)
- Tinaquaic (1837)
- Casmalia (1837)
- Tequepis (1845)
- Tepusquet (1837)
- Canada Del Corral (1841)
- Las Cruces (1837)
- Canada De Salsipuedes (1844)
- Lomas De La Purificacion (1844)
- Nojoqui (1843)
- San Carlos De Jonata (1845)
- Santa Rosa (Cota) (1839)