Land Grants through the centuries of New Mexico History
by J. J. Bowden During the latter part of the first half of the Eighteenth Century the Spaniards mounted a fierce campaign against the hostile Indians who encircled the Northern frontiers of New Mexico. Following a number of successful engagements, the Spaniards secured the release of a number of…
by J. J. Bowden Captain Cristobal Torres was granted a tract of land on the Chama River by Governor Juan Domingo de Bustamante on June 6, 1724. The tract was described as being bounded: On the north, by the Sierra de las Grullas; on the east, by the Pueblo…
by J. J. Bowden Late in the summer of 1734, Bartolome Trujillo, Juan Jose de la Serna, Salvador de Torres, Miguel Montoya, Juan Trujillo, Miguel Martin Serrano, Josefa de Torres, Cristobal Tafoya, Francisco Trujillo and Vicente Jirón “registered” a tract of land in the Chama River Valley which was…
by J. J. Bowden Manuel Bustos, a resident of Santa Cruz, petitioned Governor Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza for a grant covering a piece of unappropriated land capable of growing one and a half fanegas of corn situated on the north bank of the Chama River and west of the…
by J. J. Bowden Juan Garcia filed suit on March 3, 1893, against the United States in the Court of Private Land Claims in an effort to secure the recognition of his interest in the Manuela Garcia de las Ribas Grant. In support of his claim he referred to…
by J. J. Bowden Rosalia, Ignacio, and Juan Lorenzo Baldes, residents of the Pueblo of Santa Cruz, petitioned Governor Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza for a grant covering a tract of unappropriated land lying near the Post of Abiquiu and described as being bounded: On the north, by the Copper…
by J. J. Bowden On March 3, 1893, Andres Garcia filed suit against the United States in the Court of Private Land Claims in an effort to secure the recognition of the Juan Estevan Garcia de Noriega Grant. The claim was based on an expediente contained in the Archives…
:by J. J. Bowden Jose Pablo Jaramillo, the owner of an interest in the Roque Jacinto Jaramillo Grant, filed suit which recited that Governor…
by J. J. Bowden Jose Luis Valdez filed suit in the Court of Private Land Claims on March 2, 1893 in an effort to secure the recognition of the Rio del Oso Grant. In his petition, Valdez alleged that some time prior to June 20, 1840 Jose Antonio Valdez…
