Rancho Napa
Rancho Napa was a 22,718-acre (91.94 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Napa County, California given in 1838 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Salvador Vallejo. The grant extends along the Napa Valley, north of present-day Napa.[1]
History
[edit]Jose Manuel Salvador Vallejo (1813 - 1876) was the younger brother of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. He was Captain of militia at Sonoma and married Maria de la Cruz Carrillo. In 1839 Governor Alvarado granted to Salvador Vallejo an additional grant known as Salvador's Ranch.[2]
Unlike most Mexican land grants in California that remained intact at the end of the Mexican era, Rancho Napa was subdivided. Salvador Vallejo subdivided and sold much of the land in 1847 (during the Mexican-American War and before the transfer of California to the United States), retaining 3,179 acres (12.9 km2) for himself. There were claims filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853 for 26 tracts (Land Cases 66 ND,[3] 67 ND,[4] 71 ND,[5] 76 ND,[6] 78 ND,[7] 79 ND,[8] 109 ND,[9] 110 ND,[10] 111 ND,[11] 112 ND,[12] 114 ND,[13] 116 ND,[14] 117 ND,[15] 118 ND,[16] 120 ND,[17] 122 ND,[18] 123 ND,[19] 139 ND,[20] 141 ND,[21] 146 ND,[22] 149 ND,[23] 168 ND,[24] 169 ND,[25] 225 ND,[26] 261 ND,[27] 313 ND,[28] and 393 ND[29]) of Rancho Napa and 4 tracts (Land Cases 212 ND,[30] 241 ND,[31] and 249 ND[32]) of Salvador's Rancho.[33][34]
In 1863 Salvador Vallejo was a Major in the Union Army, and after the Civil War, he resigned and returned to his ranch in Napa in 1865, and died in 1876.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Diseño del Rancho Napa
- ^ Hoover, Mildred B.; Rensch, Hero; Rensch, Ethel; Abeloe, William N. (1966). Historic Spots in California. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4482-9.
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 66 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 67 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 71 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 76 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 78 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 79 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 109 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 110 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 111 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 112 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 114 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 116 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 117 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 118 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 120 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 122 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 123 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 139 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 141 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 146 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 149 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 168 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 169 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 225 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 261 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 313 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 393 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 212 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 241 ND
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 249 ND
- ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District)
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