San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . s and invalid soldiers. This decree was unknown in California before 1820. One of the earliest ofthe grants made under this law was that of the Penasquitos. Rancho, of nearlynine thousand acres, to the veteran Captain Ruiz and Francisco M. Alvarado,on June 15, 1823. This grant was made against the earnest pretests of the mis-sionaries, as conflicting with their boundaries. In a report made in 1828 arenamed the Rancho del Rey, now known as the National Ranch, where the Pre-sidio had two hundred and fi
San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . s and invalid soldiers. This decree was unknown in California before 1820. One of the earliest ofthe grants made under this law was that of the Penasquitos. Rancho, of nearlynine thousand acres, to the veteran Captain Ruiz and Francisco M. Alvarado,on June 15, 1823. This grant was made against the earnest pretests of the mis-sionaries, as conflicting with their boundaries. In a report made in 1828 arenamed the Rancho del Rey, now known as the National Ranch, where the Pre-sidio had two hundred and fifty cattle and twenty-five horses; the San AntonioAbad, which had three hundred cattle, eighty horses and twenty-five mules, be-sides producing some grain; the Penasquitos Rancho, with fifty cattle, twentyhorses and eight mules; El Rosario, or Barracas, which had twenty-five headof live stock and some grain; and the San Ysidro stock range. It alsoappears from a statement of the missionaries in this year that the TemescalRancho had been occupied by Leandro Serrano, majordomo at San Juan. In. PAIjMS at old SAN DIEGO, PLANTED IN 1769 HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY 113 January or March, 1829, Governor Echeandia granted one league at Otay toJose Antonio Estudillo, and another to Maria Magdalena Estudillo. From about 1832 grants were rapidly made of the public or unoccupied landsof California; and subsequent to the acts of secularization of 1833-4, it was thepractice of tlie government to grant to individuals tracts of land belonging to themissions, but which were no longer used or occupied by them. In spite of theopposition of the priests, grants were constantly made by the government withinthe limits of the so-called mission domain, and this continued up to 1846, whenthe dominion of Upper California passed to the American government. And soit went on, until the country, except the mission and pueblo lands, had passedinto private hands. A table showing these early land grants is given
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