Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo

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Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo (also called "Sagrada Familia" - Holy Family) was a 6,916-acre (27.99 km2) Mexican land grant in the northern Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California. It was given in 1822 by Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá to Joaquín de la Torre.[1]

The grant was bounded on the north by Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo, and present-day Castroville.[2][3]

History

José Joaquín de la Torre was a soldier from Spain who was alcalde in Monterey, and afterwards secretary to Governor Sola. Torre married Maria Los Angeles Cota (1790-1877) in 1803. Torre was granted the two square league Bolsa del Potrero in 1822. The Potrero, also called La Familia Sagrada, was sold by Torre to John B.R. Cooper in 1829.[4] In 1840, Joaquín de la Torre was granted Rancho Arroyo Seco by Governor Juan B. Alvarado.

In 1840, Captain Cooper traded Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo for Alvarado's Rancho El Sur. Alvarado was a nephew of Cooper's wife, Encarnacion Vallejo. Alvarado subsequently sold Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo back to Cooper.

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 Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[5] and the grant was patented to John B. R. Cooper in 1859.[6]

See also

References

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  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 Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo
  3. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 7 SD
  6. ↑ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
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