Alameda County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho San Lorenzo (Castro) (1841)
Granted 1841 by Gov. Alvarado to Guillermo Castro. Present-day Alameda County. 26,722 acres. U.S. land case ND 029: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1841 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- Guillermo Castro
- Size
- 26,722 acres
- County
- Alameda County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- ND 029, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Guillermo Castro, Feb. 14, 1865, General Land Office patent no. 122 (Perez 1982)
Open San Lorenzo (Castro) 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 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 029, 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)
- Las Positas (1839)
- Arroyo De La Alameda (1842)