Rancho San Antonio Abad
Rancho San Antonio Abad | |
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Land grant of Mexico | |
1828–1906 | |
• Type | Mexican land grant |
History | |
• Established | 1828 |
• Disestablished | 1906 |
Today part of | Mexico |
Rancho San Antonio Abad, a land grant in what is now the western part of
History
Origin
The origin of this rancho is obscure, but was one of the earliest ranchos established around San Diego. It is mentioned in a report in 1828, with the various ranchos of the San Diego region, Pennasquitos, de la Nación (then the rancho of the Presidio of San Diego), San Ysidro, El Rosario and Temescal. Among them is also mentioned that of San Antonio Abad as a rancho with 300 cattle, 80 horses, 25 mules and some grain fields on it. It may have been a second rancho belonging to or used by the Presido. [1]
The property of the Rancho San Antonio Abad would have been bounded on the west by the
Later in 1836-37, during the time of the
Post-Mexican American War
Following the
A map of the Rancho Melijo made by a county surveyor for its land commission case, indicates that the line of hills extending along the border south of the Tijuana River and down the coast into Mexico, were known as the San Antonio Hills, perhaps indicating the northern limit of the Abad rancho.[6]
It would seem that sometime between Walker's occupation of the abandoned rancho in 1854 and 1856 Santiago Arguello had acquired the rancho. On January 2, 1856, Santiago Arguello signed a sworn statement about the legal validity of the Mexican title of the San Pascual Rancheria. At the end of the document he signed it with a statement that indicated that he was the owner and resided at the rancho San Antonio Abad:
- "Given in my rancho of San Antonio Abad a Ti Juan. S. Arguello"[7]
Rancho San Antonio Abad seems not to have been kept together under that name as it does not appear in a report of settlements and ranchos in Baja California Norte in 1906, although there are a number of ranchos named San Antonio in the area mentioned.[8]
References
- ^ William Ellsworth Smythe, San Diego and Imperial counties, California: a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement, Volume 1, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1913, p.112
- ^ Herbert Howe Bankroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft; Volume 20: History of California, Volume 3 1825-1840, History Company, San Francisco, 1886, p.612, note
- ^ Smythe, p.403
- ^ Bancroft, p. 612
- ^ Luis Mario Lamadrid Moreno, Gran figura histórica (Tercera y última parte) Informes y mitos sobre Juan Antonio María Meléndrez, defensor del territorio ante una invasión de extranjeros, El Vigia, domingo, 16 de febrero de 2014, from elvigia.net accessed June 8, 2014.
- ^ Plan of the Rancho of Melijo (sic) : County of San Diego / from a reconnaissance by Chas. H. Poole, County Surveyor, 1854 from content.cdlib.org Calisphere, a service of the UC Libraries, powered by the California Digital Library, University of California, 2011, accessed June 12, 2014
- ^ Congressional Edition, Volume 906, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1857, Indian Affairs on the Pacific, p.117; Jan. 2, 1856, translation of a sworn statement of Santiago Arguello, witnessed by Captain, H. S. Burton
- ^ Dirección General de Estadística, División territorial de la República Mexicana, Volume 4, Estados del Pacifico, Secretaría de Fomento, Mexico, 1907, p.324