Alta California · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Punto Del Ano Nuevo (1842)
Granted 1842 by Gov. Alvarado to Simeon Castro. 17,753 acres. U.S. land case ND 070: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1842 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- Simeon Castro
- Size
- 17,753 acres, 4 square leagues
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- ND 070, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Simeon Castro, Dec. 3, 1857, General Land Office patent no. 205 (Perez 1982)
Open Punto Del Ano Nuevo on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Family
The grantee belongs to the Castro 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 070, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
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- 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)