Diseños of land grant Rancho Feliz was a 4,448-acre (18.00 km2 ) Mexican land grant in present day San Mateo County, California given in 30 April 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Domingo Féliz.[ 1] Rancho Cañada de Raymundo along the San Andreas Valley, west of San Andreas Lake up to Sweeney Ridge .[ 2] [ 3]
History
Plat of Feliz Rancho Domingo Féliz (1820–??), born in San Francisco, received the one square league grant in 1844.[ 4] Cañada de las Auras .[ 5]
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War , the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Feliz was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[ 6] [ 7] patented to Domingo Féliz in 1873.[ 8]
In 1854 Agoston Haraszthy acquired 388-acre (1.57 km2 ) of Rancho Feliz.[ 9]
References
^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California , Numa Hubert, San Francisco
^ Diseño del Rancho Feliz ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Feliz ^ Hoover, Mildred B.; Rensch, Hero; Rensch, Ethel; Abeloe, William N. (1966). Historic Spots in California ISBN 978-0-8047-4482-9 ^ Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names 130 . ISBN 0520213165 ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 148 ND ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892 ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine ^ Brian McGinty, 1998, Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy , Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-3145-4
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