Alta California · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Piedra Blanca (1840)
Granted 1840 by Gov. Alvarado to José de Jesús Pico. 48,805 acres. U.S. land case SD 043: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1840 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- José de Jesús Pico
- Size
- 48,805 acres
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- SD 043, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Jose de Jesus Pico, Oct. 9, 1876, 48,805.59 acres, General Land Office patent no. 321
Open Piedra Blanca on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Family
The grantee belongs to the Pico 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 043, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in County
- San Gabriel (1845)
- San Gabriel (1845)
- Unnamed grant (SD 058) (1845)
- Alcatraz (1843)
- San Gabriel (1845)
- 500 varas by 250, near San Gabriel (1843)
- San Gabriel (1843)
- San Gabriel (1846)
- Prospero (1843)
- San Gabriel (1842)
- Mesa De Ojo De Agua (1833)
- San Gabriel (1845)
- Potrero Y Rincon De San Pedro De Reglado (1838)
- Potrero Chico (1844)