Cristobal de la Serna Grant

Cristobal de la Serna Grant, Land Grant

Governor Joseph Chacon Medina Salazar y Villasenor, Marquis de la Penuela approved the grant.  Located in Taos County the office of the Surveyor General and the Court of Private Land Claims confirmed the grant for 22,232 acres.  Known as a quasi-community grant, it began as a private grant, but with the coming of additional colonists who settled the area it came to be regarded as a community grant with the use of unalloted lands in common.

The Cristobal de la Serna Grant was petitioned as a private land grant by Cristobal de la Serna in 1710, for 30,000 acres.

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Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Series 1, Surveyor General\'s Records, and the Records of the Court of Private Land Claims.

Courtesy of the State Records Center and Archives.