Rancho San Vicente

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Coordinates: 37°11′24″N 121°48′36″W / 37.190°N 121.810°W / 37.190; -121.810
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For other Ranchos San Vicente, see Rancho San Vicente (disambiguation).

Rancho San Vicente was a 4,438-acre (17.96 km2)

Almaden Valley. The grant was bounded on the north by Rancho Los Capitancillos.[2][3]

History

José Reyes Berreyesa (1785–1846) was the son of Nicholas Antonio Berreyesa (1761–1804). José Reyes Berreyesa married Maria Zacarais Bernal (1791–) in 1805. One of their sons was the grantee of

Rancho Canada de Capay. Berreyesa was a teacher at San Francisco in 1823. He retired as sergeant with thirty-seven years' of service to his credit, and was granted the one square league Rancho San Vicente by Governor Alvarado in 1842. José Reyes Berreyesa was killed by John C. Frémont's men on June 28, 1846, as he landed from a boat at San Rafael on his way to Sonoma to visit his son Jose de los Santos Berreyesa, the Alcalde of Sonoma, who was being held prisoner.[4]

With the

Public Land Commission in 1852,[5][6] and the grant was patented to Berreyesa's widow Maria Zacarias Berreyesa in 1868.[7][8][9]

The

United States Supreme Court whereupon it was finally decided in 1862 that, the mine was on Rancho Los Capitancillos, and that the furnaces and improvements of the company below the hill were on Rancho San Vicente. The company bought into these two titles and then sold the entire operation in 1864 to the Quicksilver Mining Company.[11]

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 Vicente
  3. ^ Early Santa Clara Ranchos, Grants, Patents and Maps
  4. ^ José de los Reyes Berreyesa Archived 2010-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 363 ND
  6. ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
  7. ^ United States v. Heirs of Berreyesa, U.S. Supreme Court, 64 U.S. 23 How. 499 (1859)
  8. ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Berreyesa v. United States, U.S. Supreme Court, 154 U.S. 623 (1876)
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  11. ^ Hall, Frederic (1871). The History of San José and Surroundings: With Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers. A.L. Bancroft and Co. pp. 412–13. forbes castillero.

37°11′24″N 121°48′36″W / 37.190°N 121.810°W / 37.190; -121.810

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