Alameda County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Las Positas (1839)
Granted 1839 by Gov. Alvarado to Salvio Pacheco. Present-day Alameda County. 8,880 acres. U.S. land case ND 135: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1839 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- Salvio Pacheco
- Size
- 8,880 acres, 2 square leagues
- County
- Alameda County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- ND 135, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Jose Noriega, Robert Livermore, and Josefa Higuera Livermore, Administrators, May 25, 1872, 8,880.00 acres, General Land Office patent no. 120
Open Las Positas 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 Pacheco 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 ND 135, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Alameda County
- San Lorenzo (Soto) (1841)
- Agua Caliente (1839)
- San Leandro (1842)
- Potrero De Las Cerritos (1844)
- Santa Rita (1839)
- San Lorenzo (Castro) (1841)
- Arroyo De La Alameda (1842)