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Rancho San Miguel grant also known as Immediacion á Los Serritos : case file for land granted by Juan Bautista Alvarado to Raymundo Olivas and Felipe Lorenzana
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Case file for the Agua Caliente (Case 228) granted to Don José Antoinio Pico by Juan Bautista Alvarado
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An expediente or case file for the place called Agua Caliente, also known as Rancho San José del Valle in present San Diego County, once belonging to the Mission San Luis Rey. Included are statements by José Antonio Pico, Tiburcio Tapĩa, Juan María Osuna, Andres Pico and the grant by Mexican governor of Alta California, Juan Bautista Alvarado.
mssHM 19406
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Draft typescript : My Grandfather Juan Bautista Alvarado
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Draft typescript of a paper on Juan Bautista Alvarado, California's longest-tenured governor under Mexican rule, who held office for six years from 1836 to 1842. The paper was written and presented by Grace Alvarado Sahlberg to the San Mateo American Association of University Women studying "California Fact and Legend."
mssHM 44936
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Expediente or case file for Rancho San Pablo originally granted in 1823 by Governor Luís Antonio Argüello to Francisco María Castro, reconfirmed by Governor José Figueroa in 1834 to the heirs of Francisco Castro and claimed by Joaquín Ysidro Castro
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Expediente or case file for Rancho San Pablo originally granted in 1823 by Mexican governor of Alta California, Luís Antonio Argüello to Francisco María Castro, reconfirmed by Governor José Figueroa in 1834 to the heirs of Francisco Castro and claimed by Joaquín Ysidro Castro. The Rancho which was once part of the land belonging to the Mission Dolores, was a land grant in present-day Contra Costa County, California encompassing the cities of Richmond, San Pablo, and Kensington. Includes signed statements by Joaquín Ysidro Castro, Agustín V. Zamorano, Francisco Maria Castro, Jose Figueroa, Francisco del Castillo Negrete, José María de Echeandía, and Santiago Arguello.
mssHM 18959
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Juan Bandini letter to Juan Bautista Alvarado
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In this letter, Bandini writes to Alvarado of the poor state of the land at San Juan Capistrano. In Spanish.
mssHM 44935