Los Angeles County · Figueroa (1833–1835)
Rancho Santa Gertrudes (Mc Farland & Downey) (1834)
Granted 1834 by Gov. Jose Figueroa to Josefa Cota de Nieto. Present-day Los Angeles County. 17,602 acres. U.S. land case SD 194: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1834 by Governor Jose Figueroa
- Grantee
- Josefa Cota de Nieto
- Size
- 17,602 acres, 5 square leagues
- County
- Los Angeles County, California
- Period
- Figueroa (1833–1835)
- U.S. land case
- SD 194, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to James P. McFarland and John G. Downey, Aug. 19, 1870, 17,602.01 acres, General Land Office patent no. 466
Open Santa Gertrudes (Mc Farland & Downey) on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (5 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Nieto 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 194, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
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- San Pascual (Wilson) (1834)
- Los Nogales (1838)
- El Escorpion (1845)
- Canada De Los Nogales (1844)
- Cienega O Paso De La Tijera (1844)
- Cienega O Paso De La Tijera (1843)
- Tajauta (1843)
- Providencia (1843)
- San Jose De Buenos Ayres (1843)
- San Antonio Or Rodeo De Las Aguas (1838)
- Las Cienegas (1843)
- Rincon De Los Bueyes (1821)
- Azusa (Dalton) (1841)
- La Merced (1844)