|
Rancho Santa Gertrudes was a 1834 Mexican land grant, in present-day Los Angeles County, California, resulting from a partition of Rancho Los Nietos. A former site of Nacaugna, the rancho lands included the present-day cities of Downey and Santa Fe Springs.〔(Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County )〕 ==History== At the request of Manuel Nieto heirs, governor José Figueroa in 1834, officially declared the Rancho Los Nietos grant under Mexican rule and ordered its partition into five smaller ranchos: Las Bolsas, Los Alamitos, Los Cerritos, Los Coyotes, and Santa Gertrudes.〔(Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County )〕 Josefa Cota (widow of Antonio Maria Nieto, son of Manuel Nieto) received the Rancho Santa Gertrudes grant.〔Ogden Hoffman, 1862, ''Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California'', Numa Hubert, San Francisco〕 Lemuel Carpenter (1808–1859), who had married Maria de Los Angeles Dominguez, a niece of Josefa Cota, bought the rancho in 1843 from Josefa Cota, his aunt by marriage.〔(Lemuel Carpenter )〕 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 part of Rancho Santa Gertrudes was filed Lemuel Carpenter with the Public Land Commission in 1852.〔(United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 194 SD )〕〔(Plat of the Rancho Santa Gertrudes ) "Samuel" Carpenter, claimant〕 Carpenter, who was deeply in debt to John G. Downey, killed himself in 1859. In 1859 the rancho was sold at a sheriff's auction to John G. Downey and James P. McFarland. of the grant was patented to McFarland and Downey in 1870.〔( Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 )〕 A claim for part of Rancho Santa Gertrudes was filed by Thomas Sanchez Colima with the Public Land Commission in 1852,〔(Diseño del Rancho Santa Gertrudes ) Tomas Sanchez Colima, claimant〕〔(United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 272 SD )〕 and of the grant was patented to Thomas Sanchez Colima in 1877.〔( Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 )〕 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 Santa Gertrudes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|