Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos

Mexican land grant in California

Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos was a 1,110-acre (4.5 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Justo Larios.[1] The name means the Valley of the Little Captains. The grant was south of present day San Jose and bounded on the west by the Guadalupe River.[2][3]

## History

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Justo Larios (1808-), son of Jose Larios, was a military artilleryman at the Presidio of San Francisco. Larios was granted the one square league Rancho Los Capitancillos in 1842. Larios sold the whole grant to Grove C. Cook (-1852) in 1845.[4] In 1848 Cook sold the northern part of the grant (Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos) to the Guadalupe Mining Company.[5] Cook died in 1852,[6] and Charles Fossat bought the other three-quarters of the grant in a sheriff's sale.[7]

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 Cañada de los Capitancillos was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[8][9] and a portion of the grant was patented to Charles Fossatt Feb. 3, 1865, for 3,360.48 acres. A second claim was filed by Guadalupe Mining Company in 1853[10] and a portion of the grant was patented to Guadalupe Mining Company in 1871.[11]

## References

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1. ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
2. ^ Diseño del Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos
3. ^ Early Santa Clara Ranchos, Grants, Patents and Maps
4. ^ Portrait of Justo Larios
5. ^ Gray v. Quicksilver Mining Company (Circuit Court, N. D. California. June 24, 1895.), pp. 677-685
6. ^ J. P. Munro-Fraser, 1881, History of Santa Clara County, California, Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco
7. ^ Grattan v Wiggins, 1863, Reports of cases determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 23, pp.16-39, Bancroft-Whitney Company
8. ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 132 ND
9. ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
10. ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 142 ND
11. ^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine

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