Rancho Santa Teresa Explained

Rancho Santa Teresa was a 9647acres Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to José Joaquín Bernal.[1] The grant extended west from Coyote Creek to the Santa Teresa Hills, and included present-day Santa Teresa.[2] [3]

History

José Joaquín Bernal (1762–1837), a member of the 1776 De Anza Expedition, was a soldier at the Presidio of San Francisco and by 1805 at the Pueblo of San José. In 1819 he retired from the army, and in 1826 he settled his family of eleven children near Santa Teresa spring, ten miles south of San Jose.

In 1837, Jose Joaquin Bernal died, leaving an estate to be divided equally among his widow and his ten children. Four of his children were granted Rancho Valle de San Jose in 1839. In 1844, the Treaty of Santa Teresa was signed at the rancho by Governor Micheltorena and former Governor Alvarado.[4]

With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim was filed by Agustín Bernal, son of José Joaquín Bernal, with the Public Land Commission in 1853. The grant was one square league, and 4460acres was confirmed by the U.S. District Court.[5] [6] But the 1867 official survey and patent to Agustín Bernal in 1867 was for 9647acres.[7]

In 1855, another of José Joaquín Bernal's sons, Bruno Bernal (1799–1863) moved to his Rancho El Alisal, leaving the ranch to his sons Ygnacio (1841–1906), Francisco and Antonio.

Historic sites of the Rancho

References

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Notes and References

  1. Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  2. http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb9h4nb59x/?&brand=oac Diseño del Rancho Santa Teresa
  3. http://cagenweb.com/santaclara/landgrants.html Early Santa Clara Ranchos, Grants, Patents and Maps
  4. Book: Hoover, Mildred B. . Rensch . Hero . Rensch . Ethel . Abeloe . William N. . Historic Spots in California . 1966 . Stanford University Press . registration . 978-0-8047-4482-9.
  5. http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/265540 United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 181 ND
  6. http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/hb109nb422/ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
  7. http://www.slc.ca.gov/Misc_Pages/Historical/Surveyors_General/reports/Willey_1884_1886.pdf Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
  8. http://www.parkhere.org/portal/site/parks/ Santa Clara County Parks - Santa Teresa County Park
  9. http://www.mountaincharlie1850.org/pl_bernal_adobe.html Bernal Adobe Site and Bear Tree Lot
  10. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/view/chs-m6903.html Remains of the J.P. Bernal adobe

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