Alameda County · Micheltorena (1842–1845)
Rancho Potrero De Las Cerritos (1844)
Granted 1844 by Gov. Micheltorena to Tomás Pacheco and Agustín Alviso. Present-day Alameda County. 10,610 acres. U.S. land case ND 119: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1844 by Governor Micheltorena
- Grantee
- Tomás Pacheco and Agustín Alviso
- Size
- 10,610 acres
- County
- Alameda County, California
- Period
- Micheltorena (1842–1845)
- U.S. land case
- ND 119, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Thomas Pacheco and Augustine Alviso, Feb. 21, 1866, 10,610.26 acres, General Land Office patent no. 134
Open Potrero De Las Cerritos on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (8 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 119, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Alameda County
- San Lorenzo (Soto) (1841)
- Agua Caliente (1839)
- San Leandro (1842)
- Santa Rita (1839)
- Las Positas (1839)
- San Lorenzo (Castro) (1841)
- Arroyo De La Alameda (1842)