Merced County · Alvarado (1836–1842)
Rancho Sanjon De Santa Rita (1841)
Granted 1841 by Gov. Alvarado to F. Soberanes. Present-day Merced County. 48,823 acres. U.S. land case SD 206: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1841 by Governor Alvarado
- Grantee
- F. Soberanes
- Size
- 48,823 acres, 11 square leagues
- County
- Merced County, California
- Period
- Alvarado (1836–1842)
- U.S. land case
- SD 206, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Francisco Soberanes, Nov. 20, 1862, 48,823.80 acres, General Land Office patent no. 198
Open Sanjon De Santa Rita on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Family
The grantee belongs to the Soberanes 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 SD 206, Bancroft Library (digicoll)