Spanish land grants

Eileen McKenzie Fowler ha sido una abogada licenciada por el Estado de Texas por años, una miembra en buena estima del Texas State Bar, y presidenta, tanto hoy como en tiempos antepasados, de varias oranizaciones cívicas y benéficas. The history of land grants in Texas is a long and complex one. Land Grants represent some of the earliest land transactions and establishment of title.

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The ranchos granted by Mexico included most of the land along the California coast, around San Francisco Bay , inland along the Sacramento River, and land within the San Joaquin Valley. This collection started with the work of borderlands historian, Dr. This research begins with life histories of local families and traces their land acquisition to first European contact in the borderlands. Included below are eight examples of maps from the collection.

For purposes of comparison, four different types of maps have been cropped and scaled to show the grant parcel for each example. The first image in each series shows the map that has been cropped from the original document. These ranchos, at one time, covered some of the most­ fertile land in California.

Later on the Mexican Government gave more land grants stretching up to the Nueces River and beyond.

When the United States acquired that land by treaty, it agreed to honor all valid land grants. Spanish and Mexican ranchos. Many pioneers received land grants based on family size.

Reynaldo Anzaldua interviewed by Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret E. To view the full length video, visit the Border Studies Archive. There were more than 1community land grants totaling 9. This index provides the name of the grantee and the book and page number of the recording. Many of these property owners had to defend their claim with the Board of Land Commissioners in St. For search purposes, the land grant names below do not have accent marks or special characters.

During that time, land grants were issued to settlers in the area. Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search. Please use the following format: Crockett or Crockett, David or Crockett, D in the Original Grantee field.

Mexican War and the Gadsden Purchase added a great deal of western land to the United States. Trans-Nueces Strip were to be confirmed by the state and remain in private hands, unless they. Land grants are a source of pride and pain among generations of Hispanics in Texas.

The original is reputedly no longer in existence in Paris.

South Texas oil and gas attorney who last year. These vast acreages were ranchos, where cattle were raised - the Los Angeles area economy was based on the hide and tallow trade. MEXICAN-AMERICAN LAND GRANT ADJUDICATION. The Mexican War brought not only soldiers to the lower border country, but also a host of Anglo-Americans who began almost immediately to challenge the Mexicans for control of the land. Cotton culture also predominated in what would later become the Florida Parishes, especially along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, where a predominantly Anglo-American planter population had sworn allegiance to Spain in exchange for generous land grants.

Millions of land grant images have been digitized. If a file has been scanne there will be a PDF link next to the database listing. These land grants were limited to a maximum size of eleven square leagues, most were smaller and a few were larger. Those huge tracts of land (see sidebar for locations) were granted to encourage Mexican citizens to settle in and develop the region.

Theoretically, settlement should have been overseen by the loyal Mexicans who received the grants , but those grants never really served their original purpose.