Alta California · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho El Piojo (1842)
Granted 1842 by Gov. Alvarado to Joaquin Soto. 13,329 acres. U.S. land case SD 210: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1842 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- Joaquin Soto
- Size
- 13,329 acres, 3 square leagues
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- SD 210, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to the heirs of Joaquin Soto, Apl. 30, 1866, 13,329.28 acres, General Land Office patent no. 310
Open El Piojo 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 Soto 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 210, 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)