by J. J. Bowden Juan de Dios Pena and six other residents of Santa Fe petitioned Governor Jose Antonio Chaves on April 14, 1830, asking for a grant covering the tract of vacant agricultural land known as the Gotera. They described the requested tract as containing approximately 2,000 varas…
by J. J. Bowden Antonio J. Ortiz and Nicolas Pino filed suit 1 in the Court of Private Land Claims on March 2, 1893, to secure the juridical recognition of the Badito Grant. They alleged that a grant had been made to Antonio Armijo and fifteen associates in 1835, by…
by J. J. Bowden On February 22, 1840, Juan Salas, and eleven other landless citizens of the Town of Pena Blanca petitioned the Alcalde of the Pueblo of Cochiti, Diego Antonio Aragón, asking him to recommend to the prefect of that district that a grant be given to them…
by J. J. Bowden Jose Serafin Ramirez y Casanove, the first auditing officer of the departmental treasury, acting treasurer of New Mexico, and a lieutenant in the auxiliary cavalry, petitioned Governor Mariano Martinez on February 12, 1844, for a grant covering a tract of vacant land known as the…
by J. J. Bowden In June, 1839, Jose Francisco Baca y Terrus and a number of landless citizens of New Mexico petitioned the Ayuntamiento of Santa Fe for a grant covering a tract of vacant agricultural land on the arroyo below Galisteo and bounded: On the north, by the…
by J. J. Bowden Francisco Baca y Pino. Francisco Baca y Ortiz, and Agustin Duran, residents of the Town of Galisteo, petitioned the Territorial Deputation of New Mexico on September 16, 1825, seeking a grant covering a piece of vacant agricultural land at Maragua together with sufficient water…
by J. J. Bowden The town of Real de Dolores del Oro, an unincorporated village, and Guadalupe Montoya, for himself and on behalf of its other inhabitants, filed suit in the Court of Private Land Claims on February 18, 1893, against the United States, the owner of the Ortiz…
by J. J. Bowden Jose de Jesus Garcia and Rafael Alejo discovered a rich vein of gold in the Oso Mountains, but did not have the capital to develop it. Therefore, they sold their rights on September 18, 1833, to Lieutenant Francisco Ortiz, the military commander at the Real…
by J. J. Bowden While prospecting in the Bonanzita Mountains, Luis Aguilar, a professional miner from Chihuahua, stumbled upon a shallow pit which contained interesting traces of gold in a white quartz lode. Aguilar appeared before Jose Albino Chacon, Alcalde of Santa Fe and also judge of the First…
by J. J. Bowden Beatriz Perea de Armijo filed a suit in the Court of Private Land Claims on February 11, 1893, seeking the confirmation of the Sitio de Juana Lopez Grant, which was bounded: On the north, by the lands of the Sitio de Cienega; on the east,…
