Rancho Potrero de San Luis Obispo
Rancho Potrero de San Luis Obispo was a 3,506-acre (14.19 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Luis Obispo County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to María Concepción Boronda.[1] Potrero means "pasture" in Spanish. The grant was north of present day San Luis Obispo, and encompassed Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.[2]
History
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The Boronda family patriarch, Manuel Boronda (1750-1826) accompanied Junípero Serra’s second expedition to Alta California. By 1790, Boronda was stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco and married Maria Gertrudis Higuera (1776-1851). The three sons of Manuel and Gertrudis Boronda were: José Canuto Boronda (1792-1882); José Eusebio Boronda (1808-1880) grantee of Rancho Rincon de Sanjon; and José Manuel Boronda (1803-1878), grantee of Rancho Los Laureles.[3]
José Canuto Boronda was a soldier at Monterey and Missions San Antonio, San Miguel and San Juan Bautista. He married Francisca Castro (1799-1830) and they had nine children. He received the one square league Rancho Potrero de San Luis Obispo land grant in about 1842. His daughter Maria Concepcion Boronda (1820-1906) received the patent in 1870. She married Oliver Deleissegues, a French sea captain, and after his death she married Jose Maria Munoz, an attorney in 1851.[4][5][6]
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Potrero de San Luis Obispo was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853,[7][8] and the grant was patented to María Concepción Boronda in 1870.[9]
In 1854, Francisco Estevan Quintana (1809–1880) purchased Rancho Potrero de San Luis Obispo from Maria Concepcion "Chona" Boronda Munoz. After visiting Alta California in 1839 and 1841, Quintana bought a ranch near in the vicinity of Paso Robles. In 1843 he left with a party from New Mexico with his family and livestock, traveling over the Old Spanish Trail to the San Bernardino Valley, then on to San Luis Obispo in 1844. There he served as alcalde of San Luis Obispo in 1845 and 1849.[10]
In 1880, Estevan's wife, Maria de Guadalupe Lujan Quintana inherited the ranch house and surrounding farm lands on the Rancho Potrero. Half of the rancho went to the heirs of his deceased daughter Manuela, minor children of her husband Dolores Herrera: sons Francisco, Estevan and Benito Herrera and daughters Dolores and Hellena Herrera.[10]
See also
References
- ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
- ^ Diseño del Rancho Potrero de San Luis Obispo
- ^ "Historical Information for José Manuel Boronda". FamilySearch. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ^ "California, U.S., Spanish Land Records, 1784-1868 for Maria Concepcion Boronda". California, U.S., Spanish Land Records, 1784-1868. p. 17. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ^ "Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886" (PDF). Sacramento State Office. Sacramento, California. 1886. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ^ "Maria "Chona" Boronda". HISTORICAL Morro Bay, California. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 304 SD
- ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
- ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b The Biography of Francisco Estevan Quintana (1801--1880) and Maria de Guadalupe Lujan (1809--1884) by Donald Rivara, Copyright January 2, 2009 by Don Rivara from oldmorrobay.com accessed July 18, 2017
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