Rancho Corral de Cuati explained

Rancho Corral de Cuati (also known as Rancho Corral de Quati) was a 13322acres Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Agustín Dávila.[1] The grant was located along Alamo Pintado Creek, north of present-day Los Olivos. The grant is surrounded by Rancho La Laguna.[2] [3]

History

Agustín Dávila (1805 - 1848) was a painter who came to California in 1834 with the Híjar-Padrés Colony. Dávila painted the facade, nave walls, and the ceiling above the sanctuary of the Mission Santa Clara de Asís. He married María de Jesús Félix (1823  -) in 1836. He was granted the three square league Rancho Corral de Cuati in 1845. In a confrontation at Rancho Tinaquaic in 1848, Dávila was killed by Benjamin Foxen.

Cesario Lataillade acquired Rancho Corral de Cuati. Cesario Armand Lataillade (1819 - 1849) was a French trader involved in the hide and tallow trade who came to Santa Barbara in 1841. He married Antonia María de la Guerra (1827 -), the fourth and youngest daughter of José de la Guerra y Noriega, in 1845. Lataillade was granted Rancho Cuyama (No. 2), and acquired Rancho Cuyama (No. 1) and Rancho La Zaca . Lataillade was killed in an accident in 1849, and the properties inherited by his widow and their two children, Maria Antonia Lataillade (1846 - 1916) and Cesario Eugene Lataillade (1849 -). [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 for Rancho Corral de Cuati was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[5] [6] and the grant was patented to María Antonia de la Guerra y Lataillade in 1876.[7]

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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/hb567nb2jw/?&brand=oac Diseño del Rancho Corral de Cuati
  3. https://www.countyofsb.org/pwd/Surveyor/downloads/Ranchos.pdf Santa Barbara County Rancho Map
  4. De la Guerra vs Packard, 1860, Reports of Cases determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 17, pp.183-194, Bancroft-Whitney Company
  5. http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/266086 United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 49 SD
  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