Land Grants through the centuries of New Mexico History
by J. J. Bowden Jesus Maria Vigil, a resident of the Town of El Rito, for himself, and on behalf of all other interested parties, petitioned Surveyor General Henry M. Atkinson on October 22, 1883, seeking the confirmation of a grant which had been given to his great grandfather,…
by J. J. Bowden When Don Juan de Oñate entered the Rio Arriba area of New Mexico in July, 1598, he discovered a group of Tewa Indians living in two pueblos near the junction of the Chama and Rio Grande rivers. The first was the Pueblo of Kaypa, which…
by J. J. Bowden Francisco Tafoya filed suit against the United States in the Court of Private Land Claims on March 3, 1893 seeking the confirmation of a grant which had been made to “Juan and Antonio Tafoya” on June 8, 1724 by Governor Juan Domingo de Bustamante. The…
by J. J. Bowden Antonio de Salazar, for himself arid his brothers, petitioned Governor Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollon for a grant covering the tract of vacant land which their grandfather, Captain Alonzo Martin Barba, had owned prior to the Pueblo Revolt. He described the tract as being bounded: On…
by J. J. Bowden On July 27, 1707, Bartolome Sanchez, a sergeant in the militia, petitioned Governor Francisco Cubero y Valdes for a certain piece or parcel, of land described as being bounded: On the north, by the ancient Pueblo of Quemada; on the east, by the Mesa de…
by J. J. Bowden It was nine thirty on the night of March 3, 1893, the last day on which suit could be brought under the law of March 3, 1891, with the blanks hastily…
by J. J. Bowden Antonio Trujillo, a resident of the Villa of Santa Cruz, petitioned Governor Juan Domingo de Bustamante, seeking the revalidation of the grant which he had previously received from Governor Juan Flores Magollón. He stated that the boundaries of this grant were: On the north, a…
by J. J. Bowden On March 3, 1893, Juan Antonio Quintana filed suit against the United States in the Court of Private Land Claims seeking the confirmation of a tract of land estimated to contain 1,000 acres located on the Ojo Caliente River. Quintana claimed an interest in the…
by J. J. Bowden On January 29, 1893, Maria E. Lucero and the other heirs and legal representatives of Antonio de Abeytia filed a petition in the Court of Private Land Claims seeking the confirmation of the Antonio de Abeytia Grant. The petition asserted that the grant contained about…
by J. J. Bowden Sometime during 1743, Juan Garcia de la Mora and Diego de Medina appeared before and jointly petitioned Governor Juan Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza for a grant covering a tract of land located on the Ojo Caliente River and containing some “patches of table land” which…
