Land Grants through the centuries of New Mexico History
by J. J. Bowden While the instrumento de la fundación of the Villa of Albuquerque has been lost, there is a strong tradition that it received a grant in 1706, covering at least four square leagues at the Bosque Grande. One of the several documents in the archives which…
by J. J. Bowden When Texas sold the eastern portion of the present state of New Mexico to the United States on September 9, 1850, Spruce H. Baird, Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District of the State of Texas, was left without a job. Since he did not have…
by J. J. Bowden On March 21, 1887 Francisco Griego and fourteen other applicants petitioned Surveyor General George W. Julian seeking the confirmation of the Las Lagunitas Grant under which they claimed, in severalty, title to twenty individual tracts. The tract was described as being bounded: On the north,…
by J. J. Bowden Thomas C. Gutierrez and the sixteen other heirs and lineal descendants of Clemente Gutierrez petitioned Surveyor General George W. Julian on September 10, 1877 seeking the confirmation of their claim to the Pajarito Grant, which they described as being bounded: On the north, by the…
by J. J. Bowden Juan Jose Garcia, Gaspar Atencio and twenty five associates petitioned the Prefect of the District of Bernalillo, Antonio Sandoval, on March 16, 1840, seeking a grant covering the tract of vacant agricultural land known as San Antonito, which is located east of the Sandia Mountains…
by J. J. Bowden On November 1, 1818 Juan Duran, a resident of the Town of Albuquerque, presented a petition to Governor Facundo Melgares asking that a tract of land in the Canon de Carnue be granted to him and twenty others. As consideration for the grant, the petitioners…
by J. J. Bowden The principal motive for the exploration and conquest of the northern frontiers of New Spain by the Spaniards was the search for precious metal. Although the Indians of the Southwest had obtained, copper from the extensive natural deposits in the Santa Rita Basin prior to…
by J. J. Bowden On March 27, 1883 James Addison Reavis petitioned the Surveyor General of Arizona, Joseph W. Robbins, seeking the confirmation of the Peralta Grant. In support of his claim, Reavis filed a number of Spanish documents. The first was a printed copy of a Royal Cedula…
by J. J. Bowden Francisco Montes Vigil, a resident of Santa Fe, petitioned Governor Jose Chacon Medina Salazar y Villaseñor asking for a grant covering the tract of land known as Alameda. In support of his request, he reminded Chacon that he was among the settlers who emigrated…
by J. J. Bowden Elias Brevoort, Matthias Smythe, Augustus Z. Huggins and Luis Elsberg, as legal representatives of the heirs and assigns of Antonio Matias Gomez and Jose Luis Baca de Sondaga, petitioned William L. Campbell, Surveyor General of Colorado, on August 30, 1877, and requested the investigation and…
