Rancho Cañada de Herrera explained

Rancho Cañada de Herrera was a 6658acres Mexican land grant in present day Marin County, California given in 1839 by Governor pro tem Manuel Jimeno to Domingo Sais (also spelled Saens or Saez).[1] The grant encompassed present day Fairfax, Sleepy Hollow and a part of San Anselmo.[2] [3] [4]

History

Domingo Sais (1806 - 1853), eldest of sixteen children of Juan Maria Sais and Maria Dominga Valenzuela, was a soldier at the Presidio of San Francisco (1826 - 1833) and a soldier in the San Francisco militia in 1837. Domingo Sais married Maria Manuela Miranda in 1830. In 1839, Sais was granted the one and a half square league Rancho Cañada de Herrera in return for his military service.[5]

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 for Rancho Cañada de Herrera was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[6] [7] and the grant was patented to Domingo Sais in 1876.[8]

When Domingo Sais died in 1853, the rancho was divided amongst his heirs. James Black, grantee of Rancho Cañada de Jonive, and married to Maria Agustina Sais (1828 - 1864), sister of Domingo Sais, bought part of the rancho. Black's daughter, Mary, married Dr. Galen Burdell. Black's wife, Maria Agustina Sais, died in Dr. Burdell's dental chair in 1864.[9] In 1866 Black married Maria Loreto Duarte, Ygnacio Pacheco’s widow. James Black died in 1870.[10]

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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/hb767nb3sm/?&brand=oac Diseño del Rancho Cañada de Herrera
  3. http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/lb/main/crm/maps/MarinRanchosMap.swf Map of Marin County Ranchos
  4. http://www.chezbabcock.com/genealogy/maps/maringrants.html Original Mexican Land Grants in Marin County
  5. 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.
  6. http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/264449 United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 65 ND
  7. 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
  8. http://www.slc.ca.gov/Misc_Pages/Historical/Surveyors_General/reports/Willey_1884_1886.pdf Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
  9. http://www.coastalpost.com/97/9/13.htm Olompali Park Filled With History, Reutinger, Joan. The Coastal Post, Sept. 1997
  10. http://www.nicasio.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=62&limit=1&limitstart=4 The Settlement of Nicasio: James Black