Alta California · Figueroa (1833–1835)
Rancho Shoquel (1833)
Granted 1833 by Gov. Jose Figueroa to M. Castro. 1,668 acres. U.S. land case ND 295: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1833 by Governor Jose Figueroa
- Grantee
- M. Castro
- Size
- 1,668 acres
- Period
- Figueroa (1833–1835)
- U.S. land case
- ND 295, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Martina Castro, Mar. 19, 1860, 1,668.02 acres, General Land Office patent no. 215
Open Shoquel 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 295, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in County
- 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)