Land Grant Sketch
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1860
label: associated date
content: 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Diseño – land grant survey sketch ca. 1860.
label: Description
content: This diseño or sketch was used by the Doña Juana Sancez de Pacheco to file a patent for ownership of land for about 2 leagues near Mt. Diablo, Contra County California (just outside of Oakland). The Pacheco family petitioned Governor José Figueroa for land in the 1830’s. The first claim about this case was filed in 1852. The case finally ended with an issuing of a patent to the Pacheco heirs in 1866.
label: Description
content: Property rights law was different in Mexico then in the U.S. In Mexico “previous use” of land was enough to show ownership. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was supposed to have guaranteed property rights to Mexicans in the newly acquired territory of California. Many Mexicans lost their lands because of the 1851 California Land Act, taxes, Anglo squatters, and frauds claiming ownership. Many of the long time Mexican families lost their savings in legal battles over land claims and eventually had to sell their lands to cover costs.
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
topic: label: Subject
content: Maps
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content: Home and Community Life: Community Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.306999.01
label: catalog number
content: 306999.1
label: catalog number
content: 306999.01
label: accession number
content: 306999
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Manuscript
label: Object Name
content: map
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 51 cm x 30.5 cm; 20 1/16 in x 12 in