Land Grants through the centuries of New Mexico History
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…
by J. J. Bowden Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares petitioned Governor Felix Martinez asking for a grant covering the tract of land known as San Clemente, which was bounded: On the north, by the lands of Cristobal de Tapia; on the east, by the Rio Grande; on the south,…
by J. J. Bowden Two hundred and forty-four persons, claiming to be the owners of a tract of land known as the Ranchos de Albuquerque Grant, petitioned Surveyor General George W. Julian on July 30, 1887 requesting him to examine and recommend their claim to Congress for confirmation. While…
by J. J. Bowden Juan Barela and twenty-eight other residents of the Villa of Albuquerque petitioned the alcalde of that town on July 2, 1739 seeking permission to form a new settlement upon the sitio of land which originally had been granted to Tome Dominguez but subsequently revoked due…
by J. J. Bowden On or about June 1, 1739 Nicolas Duran de Chaves appeared before Governor Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza to register a tract of land which he was than occupying. His petition described the requested tract as being bounded: On the north, by the lands of Bernabe…
by J. J. Bowden On March 19, 1881 the heirs and legal representatives of Jose Hurtado de Mendoza and other inhabitants of the Town of Atrisco filed a petition in Surveyor General Henry M. Atkinson’s office seeking the confirmation of a certain grant known as the lands of the…
by J. J. Bowden On January 9, 1872 the inhabitants of the Towns of Candelarios, Los Griegos, Los Gallegos, Los Pueblanos, Los Ranchos and El Rancho petitioned Surveyor General T. Rush Spencer, seeking the confirmation of their grants. They alleged that sometime during the latter part of the Sixteenth…
