Land Grants through the centuries of New Mexico History
By Rick Hendricks John Alexander Dowie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847. In 1860 he moved to Australia and in 1888 relocated to the United States. In 1896 Dowie founded the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. Dowie established the city of Zion, which was formally founded in 1900 in…
Rober J. Tórrez Several agricultural colonies were established in New Mexico during the last decades of the nineteenth century. One of the earliest and least known of these was Park View, a settlement established in northern New Mexico by a Chicago based corporation in 1876. The Park View colony…
San Miguel del Vado Grant by J. J. Bowden Lorenzo Marquez, for himself and fifty-one associates, petitioned the Governor of New Mexico, Fernando Chacon, for a grant covering the lands located on both sides of the Pecos River at the ford known as El Vado. The petitioners acknowledged that…
The United States government began its occupation of New Mexico in 1846. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo established New Mexico as part of the United States in 1848. The United States government began its occupation of New Mexico in 1846. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo established New Mexico as part…
The colonial Spanish government is believed to have issued grants to all of the existing New Mexico Pueblos in the period between 1598 and 1821. Governor Tomas Vélez Cachupín and the Grants to the Pueblos of Zía, Jémez, Santa Ana, and Cochiti By James Dory-Garduño The colonial Spanish government…
In 1855, the Pueblo of Acoma requested confirmation of their land grant. Following a period of legal maneuvering the grant was given a patent by the office of the Surveyor General for 95,791.66 acres in 1877. The pueblo of Acoma is one of the most unusual Queres pueblos in…
For many years the name Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell was an emotional lightning rod in New Mexico. In recent years, it has been less so. Maxwell himself has been dead for over 130 years, and the land grant that bore his name has been sold off in small parcels and…
Essay on the Cristobal Nieto Grant, the family history and origins. "When Cristobal Nieto’s father, Alcalde José Nieto, heard the news of the Pueblo Indian uprising at Galisteo on August 10, 1680, he rounded up his family at his nearby estancia and tried to escape. Tragically, José Nieto, his…
By Mark Thompson In 1819, of Tome with a grant of land on the east side of the Manzano Mountains in Valencia County. Although never surveyed, it was estimated to cover…
By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Ceran de Hault de Lassus de St. Vrain, born May 5, 1802 in Spanish Lake, Missouri, was the fourth child of Jacques Marcellin Ceran de Hault de Lassus de St. Vrain and Marie Félicité Dubreuil. Ceran's grandfather, a French Flemish noble displaced…
