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Land Grants in Colfax and Mora Counties, New Mexico and in Colorado

Grants A-J | Grants L-R | Grants S-Z | Grants by County | Explanation of Types of Grants

No Location Determined | Rio Arriba - Los Alamos | Taos | Colorado - Colfax - Mora
McKinley - Sandoval | Santa Fé | San Miguel | Bernalillo | Valencia | Guadalupe - Torrance
Arizona - Grant - Sierra - Otero - Socorro - Dona Ana - Texas

Source abbreviations: SANM= State Archives of New Mexico, SG = Surveyor General, PLC=Court of Private Land Claims, PLB=Pueblo Lands Board, ICC=Indian Claims Commission, F=File J=Journal, (##/###)= reel & frame of microfilm at the New Mexico State Archive Land Grant Records in Santa Fé, NM.

Bowden reference: Page # of Mr. Jocelyn Jean (J. J.) Bowden's unpublished 1969 six volume Master's Thesis "Private Land Claims in the Southwest" available to view on microfilm at the the NM State Archive, or in bound form at the NM Supreme Court Law Library and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

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Grant Name

Sources

Bowden

Grantee

Date

Type Grant

Grantor

County

Claimed
Acres

Confirmed
Acres

Animas, Rio Las (Huerfano, Vigil & St. Vrain)

SG 17 (14/613) PLC 44 (937/648), 128, 154, 216

1794-1805

Connelio Vigil & Ceran St. Verain

12/9/1843

Gov Munuel Armijo

Colorado: Las Animas, Bent, Otero, Pueblo & Huerfano

4,096,346

97,514

Arkansas (Beales Colony)

SG F 100

865-881

Stephen Julian Wilson

5/27/1826

Hispano empresario

Ignacio Arispe, Gov. of Coahcuila & Texes

Texas, Oklahoma & Colorado & New Mexico: Colfax

45,000,000

Conejos, Los

SG F 80 (31/209) PLC 109 (45/365)

1666-

Francisco Montes Vigil

2/23/1842

Hispano community

Colorado: Alamosa, Rio Grande, Mineral & Conejos, New Mexcio: Rio Arriba &Taos

2,500,000

Corpus Cristo

PLC 48 (38/319-432)

846-849

Hispano private

Colfax

696,960

0

Guadalupita

SG 152 (27/1573) PLC 131 (46/386)

824-827

Pedro Antonio Gallegos et al

3/9/1837

Hispano community

Juan Nepomoceno Trujillo Constitutional Alcalde of Las Trampas

Mora & Colfax

115,200

John Scolly (La Junta de Los Rios)

SG 9 (13/523-782)

775

John Scolly et al

3/29/1843

Hispano quasi-community

Gov Manuel Armijo

San Miguel & Mora

108,507

21,701

Maxwell (Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda)

SG 15 (14/141-563)

850-864

Carlos Beaubien et al

1/11/1841

Hispano private

Gov Manuel Armijo

Colfax, Taos & Colorado: Las Animas

1,714,764

1,476,764

Mora, Town of

SG 32 (16/852-1062)

811-816

Jose Tapia et al

9/28/1835

Hispano community

Gov Albino Perez

Mora, San Miguel, Colfax & Taos

827,631

827,631

Nolan, Gervacio (Cañoncito del Rio Colorado)

SG 39 (16/1557) PLC 46 (37/851)

817-823

Gervacio Nolan et al

11/18/1845

Hispano private

Gov Manuel Armijo

Mora, Colfax & San Miguel

655,698

0

Ocate (Eugracia Alvarez )

SG 143 (26/709) PLC 231 (52/1324)

827-835

Manuel Alvarez

10/16/1837

Hispano private

Gov Manuel Armijo

Mora & Colfax

69,848

Sangre de Cristo

SG 4 (12/683)

885-891

Luis Lee & Narciso Beaubien

12/30/1843

Hispano quasi-community

Gov Manuel Armijo

Taos, Colfax & Colorado: Costilla

998,780

Santiago Boné (Maria Cleofes Boné)

SG F 206 (30/956) PLC 62 (40/163)

770-775

Santigo Boné

9/28/1835

Hispano private

Gov Albino Perez

San Miguel & Mora

6,000

Tierra Amarilla

SG 3 (12/564-682)

1052-1058

Manuel Martinez et al

7/20/1832

Hispano quasi-community

Territorial Deputation

Rio Arriba & Colorado: Archuleta

594,515

524,515

Uña de Gato (Salvador Bernal, Tomas Lopez)

SG 94 (22/499)

839-845

Salvador Vernal et al

7/4/1839

Hispano private

Gov Manuel Armijo

Colfax

Grant Name

Source

Bowden

Grantee

Date

Type Grant

Grantor

County

Claimed
Acres

Confirmed
Acres

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