Land Grants through the centuries of New Mexico History
by J. J. Bowden Prior to the Pueblo Revolt, Captain Francisco de Anaya Almazan and his family lived on his hacienda which was located about eleven miles west of Santa Fe at the place known as Cieneguilla. He was on patrol when the Santa Clara Indians attacked the hacienda…
by J. J. Bowden Jose Pacheco, a soldier stationed at the royal garrison at Santa Fe, and his brother Salvador Pacheco, a resident of Rio Arriba, petitioned Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta for the revalidation of the grant covering a tract of land “susceptible of being sown with one…
by J. J. Bowden Juan de Dios Pena and six other residents of Santa Fe petitioned Governor Jose Antonio Chaves on April 14, 1830, asking for a grant covering the tract of vacant agricultural land known as the Gotera. They described the requested tract as containing approximately 2,000 varas…
by J. J. Bowden Jose Serafin Ramirez y Casanove, the first auditing officer of the departmental treasury, acting treasurer of New Mexico, and a lieutenant in the auxiliary cavalry, petitioned Governor Mariano Martinez on February 12, 1844, for a grant covering a tract of vacant land known as the…
by J. J. Bowden Francisco Baca y Pino. Francisco Baca y Ortiz, and Agustin Duran, residents of the Town of Galisteo, petitioned the Territorial Deputation of New Mexico on September 16, 1825, seeking a grant covering a piece of vacant agricultural land at Maragua together with sufficient water…
by J. J. Bowden The town of Real de Dolores del Oro, an unincorporated village, and Guadalupe Montoya, for himself and on behalf of its other inhabitants, filed suit in the Court of Private Land Claims on February 18, 1893, against the United States, the owner of the Ortiz…
by J. J. Bowden Jose de Jesus Garcia and Rafael Alejo discovered a rich vein of gold in the Oso Mountains, but did not have the capital to develop it. Therefore, they sold their rights on September 18, 1833, to Lieutenant Francisco Ortiz, the military commander at the Real…
by J. J. Bowden While prospecting in the Bonanzita Mountains, Luis Aguilar, a professional miner from Chihuahua, stumbled upon a shallow pit which contained interesting traces of gold in a white quartz lode. Aguilar appeared before Jose Albino Chacon, Alcalde of Santa Fe and also judge of the First…
by J. J. Bowden Beatriz Perea de Armijo filed a suit in the Court of Private Land Claims on February 11, 1893, seeking the confirmation of the Sitio de Juana Lopez Grant, which was bounded: On the north, by the lands of the Sitio de Cienega; on the east,…
Transcript: Distinguished Sergeant Cleto de Miera and Pedro Bautista Pino petitioned Governor Fernando Chacon on January 21, 1788, asking for a grant covering the tract of land known as the Sitio de los Serrillos and setting forth as its boundaries the following natural objects: On the north, the boundaries…
