Rancho Tomales y Baulines explained

Rancho Tomales y Baulines was a 9468acres Mexican land grant in present-day Marin County, California, given in 1836 by Governor Nicolás Gutiérrez to Rafael Garcia.^[1] The grant extended south from Point Reyes Station along the Olema Valley and encompassed present day Olema and Garcia.^{[2] [3] [4]}

History

Rafael Garcia (1799-1866) married Maria Loreto Altamirano in 1827. Garcia was a corporal stationed at Mission San Rafael and was the first settler to occupy the area around Bolinas Lagoon in 1834. To allow his brother-in-law, Gregorio Briones, to have Rancho Las Baulines, Garcia moved north up the Olema Valley to Olema, and was granted the two square league Rancho Tomales y Baulines in 1836. Garcia gained "juridical possession" of this land from the authorities in Sonoma.^[5] In 1843, Garcia moved his livestock onto neighboring James Berry's Rancho Punta de los Reyes.^{[6] [7]} His widow, Loretta, was murdered in Olema in 1873.

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 Tomales y Baulines was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,^{[8] [9]} and the grant was patented to Rafael Garcia in 1883.^[10]

See also

• Ranchos of California
• List of Ranchos of California

Further reading

• Web site: Rancho: Tomales y Baulines (Tomales y Baulenes) . Marin County's Original Ranchos, Granted by Mexico between 1834 and 1846 . Marin County Free Library . 8 September 2020.

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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/hb2t1nb0xm/?&brand=oac Diseño del Rancho Tomales y 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. Book: Livingston, Dewey. A Good Life: Dairy Farming in the Olema Valley. National Park Service. San Francisco. 1995. 419.
6. 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
7. 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)
8. http://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/264452 United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 68 ND
9. 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
10. http://www.slc.ca.gov/Misc_Pages/Historical/Surveyors_General/reports/Willey_1884_1886.pdf Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886