Santa Clara County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Rinconada De Los Gatos (1840)
Granted 1840 by Gov. Alvarado to S. Peralta and J. Hernandez. Present-day Santa Clara County. 6,631 acres. U.S. land case ND 164: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1840 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- S. Peralta and J. Hernandez
- Size
- 6,631 acres, 1.5 square leagues
- County
- Santa Clara County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- ND 164, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Jose Hernandez and Sebastian Peralta, Mar. 19, 1860, 6,631.44 acres, General Land Office patent no. 192
Open Rinconada De Los Gatos on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (3 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Peralta 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 164, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Santa Clara County
- Posolmi (1844)
- El Potrero De Santa Clara (1844)
- Rincon De Los Esteros (Berryessa) (1838)
- Rinconada Del Arroyo De San Francisquito (1841)
- Rincon De Los Esteros (Alviso) (1838)
- Ulistac (1845)
- Unnamed grant (SD 325) (1839)
- San Ysidro (Gilroy) (1833)
- San Ysidro (Ortega) (1833)
- Milpitas (Alviso) (1830)
- La Purisima Concepcion (1840)
- Tularcitos (Higuera) (1821)
- La Polka (1833)
- Pala (1835)