San Benito County History

This section is excerpted from A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California by Henry D. Barrows and Luther A. Ingersoll, and published by The Lewis Publishing Company in 1893.

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Mexican Land Grants.

The following is a list of confirmed land grants wholly or partly in San Benito county, with names of confirmés, dates and numbers of acres each.

NAME OF GRANT Date Acres Grantees
Aromitas y Agua Caliente, 1835 8,659 F. A. Mac Dougall, et al.
Ansaymas y San Felipe, 1833 11,744 F. P. Pacheco
Bolsa de San Felipe, 1840 6,795 F. P. Pacheco
Cienega del Gabilan, 1843 21,874 J. D. Carr
Cienega de los Paicines, 1842 8,917 A Castro, et al
Los Carneros, 1842 236 F. A. Mac Dougall, et al.
Liano del Tequisqaite, 1835 16,016 Sanchez heirs
Lomerias Muertas, 1842 6,660 Sanchez heirs
Los Vergeles, 1835 2,085 James Stokes
Mission S. Juan Bautista, 1797 55 Bishop, etc. J. S. Alemany
Real de los Aquilas, 1844 31,052 F. A. Mac Dougall, et al.
San Antonio, 1846 4,493 M. Larios
Santa Ana y Qaien Sabe, 1839 48,822 M. Larios, et al.
San Joaquin, 1836 7,425 C. Cervantez
San Justo, 1839 34,619 F. P. Pacheco
San Loreuzo, 1846 2,384 R. Sanchez
Tract near Mission S. Juan 1839 401 P. Breen
The status of Panoche Grande, about 17,000 acres, 1844 to V. P Gomez is given elsewhere.
Total area of Mexican grants, 232,100 acres
Total area of public lands, 442,900 acres
Total area of S Benito county, 676,000 acres

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This section is excerpted from A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California by Henry D. Barrows and Luther A. Ingersoll, and published by The Lewis Publishing Company in 1893.


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