Rancho Las Baulines Explained

Rancho Las Baulines was a 8911acres Mexican land grant in present-day Marin County, California, given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Gregorio Briones.^[1] The grant extended around Bolinas Lagoon and encompassed present-day Stinson Beach and Bolinas.^{[2] [3] [4]}

History

Gregorio Briones (1797-1863) born in Monterey, was the son of Marcos Briones who accompanied Junípero Serra in 1769. In 1819 Gregorio entered the army and remained in it for eleven years. In 1822 he married Maria Ramona Garcia (1803-), the sister of Rafael Garcia of Rancho Tomales y Baulines. Briones' sister, Juana Briones de Miranda, owned Rancho La Purísima Concepción. Gregorio Briones served as alcalde of San Jose in 1830, Pinole 1832-1837 and San Mateo 1837–1839.^[5] In 1837, his son, Jose Pablo Briones (1823-1897), moved with the family's cattle to Rafael Garcia's ranch in the area around Bolinas Lagoon. Garcia moved north up the Olema Valley to his Rancho Tomales y Baulines grant. The rest of the Briones family joined Pablo in 1838 and Gregorio moved there permanently in 1839.^[6] Governor Pio Pico granted Briones the two square league Rancho Las Baulines in 1846.^{[7] [8] [9]}

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 Las Baulines was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853,^{[10] [11] [12]} and the grant was patented to Gregorio Briones in 1866.^[13]

See also

• Ranchos of California
• List of Ranchos of California

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/hb8w1008dx/?&brand=oac Diseño del Rancho Las Baulines
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. J. P. Munro, 1880, History of Marin County, California, Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco
6. Book: Livingston, Dewey. A Good Life: Dairy Farming in the Olema Valley. National Park Service. San Francisco. 1995. 419.
7. Jack Mason, 1972, Point Reyes: The Solemn Land, Inverness: North Shore Books
8. http://pointreyes.stanford.edu/library/Sources/Ranching_Liv/Ranching%20-%20Sec01%20Pages%2001-19.pdf Dairy and Beef Ranches on the Point Reyes Peninsula 1834-1945
9. Robert H. Becker, "Historical Survey of Point Reyes," Land Use Survey. Proposed Point Reyes National Seashore (San Francisco: Region Four Office, National Park Service, February, 1961)
10. http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/265785 United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 189 ND
11. http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/266132 United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 174 SD
12. 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
13. http://www.slc.ca.gov/Misc_Pages/Historical/Surveyors_General/reports/Willey_1884_1886.pdf Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886