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Land Grants in Grant, Sierra, Otero, Socorro, Doña Ana Counties, New Mexico
and in Arizona and Texas

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 Jocelyn Jean (J. J.) Bowden's unpublished 1969 six volume Master's Thesis "Private Land Claims in the Southwest" available to view on microfilm at the the NM State Archive, or in bound form at the NM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

Arkansas (Beales Colony)

SG F 100

865-881

Stephen Julian Wilson

5/27/1826

Hispano empresario

Ignacio Arispe, Gov. of Coahcuila & Texas

Texas, Oklahoma & Colorado & New Mexico: Colfax

45,000,000

Armendaris No. 33, Pedro

SG 33 (16/1063)

163

Pedro Armendaris

12/4/1819

Hispano private

Facundo Melgares

Socorro & Sierra

352,504

352,504

Armendaris No. 34, Pedro

SG 34 (16/1264)

168

Pedro Armendaris

5/3/1820

Hispano grazing

Gov Facundo Melgares

Socorro

352,504

352,504

Arroyo de San Lorenzo (Antonio Chaves, Alamillo)

SG 79 (21/209) PLC 37 (36/649)

196

Antonio Chaves

3/3/1825

Hispano private

Territorial Deputation

Socorro

130,138

Baca (Jose Manuel Sanchez Baca)

SG 129 (25/120) PLC 138 (47/1395)

65-77

Jose Manuel Sanchez Baca

6/5/1853

Hispano emigration

Guadalupe Miranda, Comr. of Emigration

Doña Ana

3,601

3,530

Barela, Rómulo E. (Varela)

PLC 281 (54/1015-1094)

22-25

Romolo Barlea

Hispano emigration

Guadalupe Miranda, Comr. of Emigration

Doña Ana

4,428

Belen, Town of

SG 13 (13/1145)

210

Diego de Torres & others

11/15/1740

Hispano community

Gaspar Domingo de Mendosa

Socorro & Valencia

194,663

194,663

Bosque del Apache (Antonio Sandoval)

SG 35 (16/1321-1368)

171

Antonio Sandoval

11/28/1845

Hispano private

Gov Manuel Armijo

Socorro

60,117

60,117

Brazito Tract (Bracito, Hugh Stephenson)

SG 6 (12/890)

99-112

Juan Antonio Garcia de Noriega

1/1/1823

Hispano private

Jose Ordas Lt Gov of El Paso

Doña Ana

10,612

14,808

Casa Colorada, Town of

SG 5 (12/840-889)

205

Rafael Gutierrez et al

9/15/1823

Hispano community

Provincial Deputation

Socorro, Valencia & Torrance

131,779

131,779

Doña Ana Bend Colony

SG 85 (21/843) PLC 24 (35/282)

127

Jose Maria Costales and 115 others

7/8/1840

Hispano community

Gov Francisco Garcia Conde & the Departmental Assembly of Chihuahua

Doña Ana

35,399

35,399

Mesilla Civil Colony

SG 86 (21/1132) PLC 151 (48/1338)

88-99

Rafael Ruelas and 59 others

8/4/1853

Hispano emigration

Guadalupe Miranda, Comr. of Emigration

Doña Ana

33,960

21,628

Mesilla, La Colonia de

88

Meragilto Guerra et al

Doña Ana

Miranda, Guadalupe

PLC 139 (47/1583-eor)

17-21

Guadalupe Miranda

7/13/1851

Hispano private

Gov of the State of Chihuahua

Doña Ana

2,442

Muerto, Jornado del (Juan Bautisa Vigil )

SG 26 (16/201-253)

147-160

Juan Bautisa Vigil

1/10/1846

Hispano private

Departmental Assembly

Sierra, Doña Ana & Socorro

Peralta 2 (Reavis, Heirs of Miguel Peralta)

PLC 110 (45/564)

1758-1790

Fraudulent

Grant & Arizona

12,467,456

Refugio Civil Colony

SG 90 (22/006) PLC 150 (48/1118), 193

53

50 settlers ofVillage of Refugio de los Amoles

2/2/1852

Hispano emigration

Gov State of Chihuahua

Doña Ana

26,000

11,524

San Acasio

PLC 158 (49/721-728)

213

Socorro

18,000

San Antonio de Isleta, Pueblo of (Ysleta, Rancho de)

PLC 33 (35/1657-eor)

4-14

Pueblo of San Antonio de Ysleta

8/31/1828

Hispano grazing

Gov Jose Antonio Arce of Chihuahua, and Cont. Congress of Chihuahua

Otero, Texas: El Paso & Hudspeth

823,608

Sanchez, Juan José (Blaza Alverez de Sanchez)

PLC 280 (54/936-1014)

48-53

Juan José Sanchez

6/29/1853

Hispano emigration

Guadalupe Miranda, Comr. of Emigration

Doña Ana

4,428

Santa Rita del Cobre (Santa Rita Mine)

SG F 107 (31/528) SG F 194 (31 801)

1736-1758

Lt Col Jose Manuel Carrasco

6/30/1801

Hispano mining

Douncement of Mining Claim

Grant

Santa Teresa (Rancho de)

SG 111 (23/831) PLC 168 (49/1164)

25-48

Francisco Garcia

1/20/1768

Hispano private

Lt Gov Neuva Viscaya

Doña Ana

17,712

8,478

Santo Tomas de Iturbide (Yturbide)

SG 139 (26/006) PLC 137 (46/744,47/006)

77-88

Colonists of Santo Tomas de Iturbe

8/3/1853

Hispano emigration

Guadalupe Miranda, Comr. of Emigration

Doña Ana

10,000

9,622

Sevilleta, Town of (Cevilleta)

SG 95 (22/934) PLC 55 (38/1216)

189

Carlos Gabaldon et al

5/29/1819

Hispano community

Facundo Melgares

Socorro

272,193

261,187

Socorro, Town of

SG 107 (23/392) PLC 13(34/995), 127

174

Settlers of San Miguel de Socorro

1/1/1815

Hispano community

Gov Alberto Marquez

Socorro

843,259

17,371

Grant Name

Source

Bowden

Grantee

Date

Type Grant

Grantor

County

Claimed
Acres

Confirmed
Acres

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