Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos explained
Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos was a 1110acres Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Justo Larios.[1] The name means the Valley of the Little Captains. The grant was south of present day San Jose and bounded on the west by the Guadalupe River.[2] [3]
History
Justo Larios (1808 -), son of Jose Larios, was a military artilleryman at the Presidio of San Francisco. Larios was granted the one square league Rancho Los Capitancillos in 1842. Larios sold the whole grant to Grove C. Cook ( - 1852) in 1845.[4] In 1848 Cook sold the northern part of the grant (Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos) to the Guadalupe Mining Company.[5] Cook died in 1852,[6] and Charles Fossat bought the other three-quarters of the grant in a sheriff's sale.[7]
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 los Capitancillos was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[8] [9] and a portion of the grant was patented to Charles Fossatt Feb. 3, 1865, for 3,360.48 acres. A second claim was filed by Guadalupe Mining Company in 1853[10] and a portion of the grant was patented to Guadalupe Mining Company in 1871.[11]
References
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Notes and References
- Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
- http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb0n39n5mp/?&brand=oac Diseño del Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos
- http://cagenweb.com/santaclara/landgrants.html Early Santa Clara Ranchos, Grants, Patents and Maps
- http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/arbuckle&CISOPTR=365&CISOBOX=1&REC=3 Portrait of Justo Larios
- Gray v. Quicksilver Mining Company (Circuit Court, N. D. California. June 24, 1895.), pp. 677-685
- J. P. Munro-Fraser, 1881, History of Santa Clara County, California, Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco
- Grattan v Wiggins, 1863, Reports of cases determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 23, pp.16-39, Bancroft-Whitney Company
- http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/265492 United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 132 ND
- 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
- http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/265502 United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 142 ND
- http://www.slc.ca.gov/Misc_Pages/Historical/Surveyors_General/reports/Willey_1884_1886.pdf Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886