Land Grants through the centuries of New Mexico History
The Pedro Armendaris Grant No. 33 by Michael Miller Pedro Ascue de Armendaris was the collector of tithes and was the former First Lieutenant at the garrison in San Elizario. In 1819, he petitioned for the first of three land grants in the southern part of Nuevo Mexico. …
Elena Gallegos, daughter of Antonio Gallegos and Catalina Baca, was one of the Hispanic colonists of New Mexico who was present at the time of the Pueblo Revolt. Gallegos was a child in 1680, and fled south with her family, returning sometime after the Spanish re-occupation of New Mexico in…
An essay about the Abiquiu Land Grant written for the Center of Land Grant Studies. The Abiquiú Genízaro Grant The Abiquiú Genízaro Grant is the only grant made exclusively to genízaro Indians, that is Plains Indians and Navajos who were captured and sold to Spaniards mainly for use as…
Land, Violence and Death: The Bartolome Baca Grant. by Michael Miller In 1819, Bartolome Baca petitioned Governor Facundo Melgares for a grant covering a tract of land situated east of the Abo mountains near a place called Torreon. He described the boundaries to the governor in this way: “On the north,…
Former Surveyor General George Julian published an article in the North American Review attacking the Beaubien-Miranda Grant as an “astounding piracy of the public domain.” His article prompted the New Mexico Bar Association to recommend to Congress a special tribunal to investigate all unconfirmed private land claims in New…
by J. J. Bowden Juan Jose Sanchez, the Jefe Politico of El Paso del Norte, petitioned Guadalupe Miranda, Commissioner of Emigration, for a league of land located on the west bank of the Rio Grande River between Refugio Civil Colony and the Santa Teresa Grant. Sanchez stated that he…
by J. J. Bowden Romulo Barela, an influential citizen of El Paso del Norte, petitioned Commissioner of Emigration, Guadalupe Miranda, for a league of land lying west of the Rio Grande River between the Miranda and Santa Teresa Grants. Barela stated that he desired to plant an orchard on…
by J. J. Bowden A deep sense of patriotism prompted Guadalupe Miranda who, in 1846, was Governor Manuel Armijo’s private secretary and also Secretary of the Department of New Mexico, to move from Santa Fe to El Paso del Norte following General Stephen W. Kearny’s conquest of New Mexico….
by J. J. Bowden Jose Manuel Sanchez Baca was one of the wealthy patriotic New Mexicans who elected to retain his Mexican citizenship after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. At his own expense, he transported his family, peons, and some 6,000 sheep from New Mexico to…
by J. J. Bowden After the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, numerous residents of New Mexico, who did not desire to become citizens of the United States, moved to Mexico. Many of these emigrants settled in the area west of the Rio Grande River in…
