by J. J. Bowden The inhabitants of the Pueblo of Laguna petitioned surveyor General William Pelham on June 29, 1859 seeking the confirmation of the rancho commonly called San Juan. Although their title papers to the premises had been lost or destroyed, the Lagunans based their claim on actual…
by J. J. Bowden Early in the nineteenth century the Laguna Indians purchased to Surveyor General William Pelham on June 29, 1859 for confirmation under Section 8…
by J. J. Bowden In accordance with the customary practice consisted of three separate Spanish instruments. The…
by J. J. Bowden The Pueblo of Isleta, an ancient Tigua settlement, is located on the west bank of the Rio Grande, about twelve miles south of Albuquerque. While the pueblo was mentioned as early as 1540, a mission was not established there until about 1629. Thereafter, it became…
by J. J. Bowden On March 2, 1893 the heirs of John Gwin, Jr, filed suit in the Court of Private Land Claims against the United States seeking the confirmation of the Ojito de los Medanos Grant, which covered a square tract of sixteen leagues, or 69,443.22 acres with…
by J. J. Bowden Santiago Duran y Chaves, a resident of the Town of Atrisco, appeared before Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta and requested a grant covering the tract of land surrounding the San Mateo Spring. As justification for his supplication, he advised Mendinueta that he owned eighty mares…
by J. J. Bowden As a result of the Court of Private Land Claims dismissal of J. Francisco Chavez’s suit in connection with the San Clemente Grant on the ground that the grant did not cover any land north of the Town of Los Lentes, he filed two additional…
by J. J. Bowden Juan Otero, a resident of the Town of Valencia, petitioned Francisco Sarracino, Prefect of the Third District of New Mexico, on January 22, 1845, and requested a grant covering a tract of vacant land located within an area two leagues on each of the cardinal…
by J. J. Bowden Jose Chavez Garcia do Noriega, a resident of the Town of Belen, discovered a silver vein in the Manzano Mountains. On December 24, 1840 he appeared before Antonio Sandoval, Prefect of the Second District of New Mexico, and registered his discovery, which he named the…
by J. J. Bowden Diego de Padilla, a resident of the Town of Albuquerque, finding himself without sufficient lands to support his family, petitioned the Governor of New Mexico for a grant covering the tract of land known as Lo de Padilla. He described the tract as being bounded…
