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Rancho San Lucas was a Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Rafael Estrada.〔Ogden Hoffman, 1862, ''Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California'', Numa Hubert, San Francisco〕 The grant extended along the west bank of the Salinas River south of present-day San Lucas.〔(Diseño del Rancho San Lucas )〕 ==History== José Rafael Estrada, son of José Raymundo Estrada and Josefa Maria Vallejo de Alvarado, received the grant of the San Lucas for two square leagues in 1842. Rafael Estrada was a half brother of Governor Juan Alvarado. Estrada sold Rancho San Lucas to James McKinley. Captain James McKinley, a Scottish sailor, arrived at Monterey in the 1820s and became a successful trader. In 1843, he was involved in a trading business partnership with Captain John Paty and Henry D. Fitch. He served as an agent for both Thomas O. Larkin and his half brother, Captain John B.R. Cooper. McKinley married Carmen Amesti, daughter of José Amesti, who was the grantee of Rancho Los Corralitos. McKinley was also the patentee of Rancho Moro y Cayucos. 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 San Lucas was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853,〔(United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 34 SD )〕 and the grant was patented to James McKinley in 1882.〔( Report of the Surveyor General 1844–1886 )〕 McKinley sold the Rancho San Lucas in 1862 to Alberto Trescony. Alberto Trescony (1814–1892), born in Italy, drove sheep from Texas into Mexico, and came overland to Los Angeles in 1844, and went to Monterey shortly afterwards. A tin smith, he became wealthy manufacturing gold pans for the miners. With the purchase of part of Rancho San Bernardo and all of Rancho San Benito, Alberto Trescony consolidated his San Lucas holdings into a ranch of about . Trescony also acquired Rancho Tularcitos. Drought in 1871–1872 killed large numbers of Trescony's sheep. In 1876, Trescony moved to Santa Cruz, and turned over the operation of the rancho to his son, Julius A. Trescony.〔Julius Trescony,1978,''An Heir to a Land Grant'', University of California, Davis, Oral History Center〕 Alberto Trescony died in 1892 and his property was distributed to his three children: a one-third interest to his son Julius A. Trescony; a one-third interest to his daughter, the wife of Robert F. Johnson of El Paso, Texas; and a one-third interest to the two minor children (Anita Christal and her brother Leo Christal) of his deceased daughter, Rose, wife of J.F. Christal.〔''Anita Christal Purdy vs Robert F. Johnson and Julius A. Trescony'', 1917, California Decisions By California Supreme Court, Volume 53 The Recorder, San Francisco〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rancho San Lucas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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