Rancho San Pascual, also known as Rancho el Rincón de San Pascual, was a
Mexican land grant in present-day
Los Angeles County, California
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, given to Juan Marine in 1834 by Mexican Governor
José Figueroa. The former Rancho San Pascual land includes present-day cities of
Pasadena
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,
South Pasadena, and portions of
San Marino
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, and the unincorporated communities of
Altadena and
San Pasqual.
History
After the
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel () is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. It was founded by the Spanish Empire on the Nativity of Mary September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish mi ...
was secularized in 1834, Governor
José Figueroa granted Rancho San Pascual to Juan Mariné, a retired artillery lieutenant. Juan Marine's wife
Maria Antonia Sepulveda had died in 1831. Marine married widow
Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné, who had served as
mayordoma and keeper of the keys at the Mission.
After Juan Marine died in 1838, Mexican Governor
Alvarado granted title of the rancho to José Pérez and
Enrique Sepúlveda in 1839. Both built small adobe houses near Arroyo Seco. Perez died in 1841 and Enrique Sepulveda died in 1843. Rancho San Pascual was once again abandoned.
Manuel Garfias Rancho San Pascual, also known as Rancho el Rincón de San Pascual, was a Ranchos of California, Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, given to Juan Marine in 1834 by Mexican Governor José Figueroa. The former Rancho S ...
, a lieutenant in the Mexican Army, denounced the former grant and claimed the land for himself. In 1843 Mexican Governor
Micheltorena granted title of Rancho San Pasqual to Garfias. Garfias served as an officer in Micheltorena's ''"Batalon Fijo de Californias"'' (the Fixed Battalion of California) from 1842 to 1845. Garfias married Luisa Avila, the daughter of
Francisco Avila and
María Encarnación Sepúlveda Avila, who owned
Rancho Las Cienegas and the
Avila Adobe.
With the
cession of California to the United States following the
Mexican–American War
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, the 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). It was signed on 2 February 1848 in the town of Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City, Guadalupe Hidalgo.
After the defeat of its army and the fall of the cap ...
provided that the historic land grants would be honored. But the US required, under its Land Act of 1851, that Mexicans file claims for their land grants.
María Merced Lugo de Foster and María Antonia Perez June filed a claim for Rancho San Pascual to the
Public Land Commission
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for three square leagues based on the Alvarado grant to Enrique Sepulveda and José Perez, but this was rejected. Cases were complicated and many American migrants competed to acquire such Mexican lands.
Garfias received a
US patent
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for based on the Micheltorena grant. American
Benjamin "Don Benito" Wilson acquired a small part of the Rancho in 1852, and received a US patent for .
Garfias sold portions of San Pascual to finance the building of an elaborate adobe manor that he constructed along the east bank of the
Arroyo Seco. This expensive adobe was his new headquarters of Rancho San Pascual, but financing it resulted in Garfias lohing is land. Benjamin Wilson bought the rest of the rancho from Garfias in 1858.
Two years later, in 1860, Wilson sold a half interest in Rancho San Pascual to John S. Griffin. Griffin sold portions of his share to Dr.
Benjamin S. Eaton, the father of
Fred Eaton. In 1872, American
George Stoneman bought from Wilson. Stoneman later served as Governor of California.
In 1873, Daniel M. Berry, a purchasing agent for the Indiana Colony of California, came to Rancho San Pascual. Berry purchased a large portion of the property along the
Arroyo Seco and on January 31, 1874, incorporated the
Indiana Colony.
[.]
Historic sites of the Rancho
*
Adobe Flores built by José Pérez. After being defeated at the
Battle of La Mesa,
Jose Maria Flores camped at Rancho San Pascual near the adobe.
*
Governor Stoneman Adobe, Los Robles.
Governor Stoneman Adobe, Los Robles
See also
* Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné
* Ranchos of California
In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Spanish and History of Mexico, Mexican governments from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish concessions of l ...
* List of Ranchos of California
References
External links
Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County
{{California history
History of Pasadena, California
Altadena, California
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County)
San Marino, California
San Gabriel Valley
South Pasadena, California
1834 establishments in Alta California
Ranchos of Los Angeles County, California