Rancho San Francisquito (Munrás)

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Coordinates: 36°28′48″N 121°48′00″W / 36.480°N 121.800°W / 36.480; -121.800
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Rancho San Francisquito was a 8,813-acre (35.66 km2)

nature preserve
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History

The two square league grant was made to Catalina Manzanelli de Munrás who was the wife of Esteban Munrás (1798–1850), a Monterey trader, amateur painter, and grantee of Rancho San Vicente. Catalina Manzanelli, the daughter of Maria Casilda Ponce de León and Nicolas Manzanelli, a silk merchant from Genoa, Italy, was also grantee of Rancho Laguna Seca.[3][4]

William Robert Garner(1803–1849), an English ex-whalerman, arrived in Santa Barbara in 1824, and in Monterey in 1828. In 1831, he married Antonia Francisca Butrón (1814–1883), one of the heirs to Rancho La Natividad. Garner began cutting lumber from the redwoods in the upper Carmel Valley. William Garner bought Rancho San Francisquito. He was killed by Indians in 1849.[5]

Rancho San Jose y Sur Chiquito. José Abrego was the grantee of Rancho Punta de Pinos in 1844 and in 1853 he bought Rancho San Francisquito at the probate sale of William Robert Garner estate.[7]

With the

Public Land Commission in 1853[8][9] and the grant was patented to him in 1862.[10] On July 18, 1853, Abrego sold the land to Lewis F. Belcher, known as the "Big Eagle of Monterey", an American from New York who has first arrived in Monterey in 1842.[11]

In 1858 Bradley Varnum Sargent, who already owned Rancho Potrero de San Carlos bordering Rancho San Francisquito, bought this land as well. Sargent (1828–1893), born in New Hampshire, came to California with his three brothers, Jacob L. Sargent (1818–1890), Roswell C. Sargent (1821–1903), and James P. Sargent (1823-1890) in 1849. In 1856 the Sargent brothers bought Rancho Juristac.[citation needed]


See also

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. ^ Diseño del Rancho San Francisquito
  3. ISBN 978-0-8047-4482-9
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  4. ^ Luther A. Ingersoll,1893,Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.
  5. ISBN 978-0-520-01565-4
  6. ^ Reminiscences of Mrs.Abrego Memorial And Biographical History Of The Coast Counties Of Central California, 1893, p.79
  7. ^ Donald Munro Craig, 1970, Letters From California, 1846-1847. William Robert Garner, University of California Press, Berkeley, California
  8. ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 247 SD
  9. ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
  10. ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
  11. JSTOR 25156211
    . Retrieved 9 January 2021.

36°28′48″N 121°48′00″W / 36.480°N 121.800°W / 36.480; -121.800

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