Rancho Aguajito was a Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1835 by Governor José Figueroa to Gregorio Tapia.Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco The grant was south of Monterey and encompassed Hotel Del Monte, the present-day Naval Postgraduate School, and the Del Monte Golf Course.Diseño del Rancho Aguajito
History Gregorio Tapia (1814-) married Maria Martina Vasquez (1814-) in 1830.
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 Aguajito was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853,United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 323 SDFinding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892 and the grant was patented to Gregorio Tapia in 1868. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
David Jacks, owner of the adjoining Rancho Pescadero bought the rancho. David Jacks sold the rancho to the Pacific Improvement Company in 1880.
See also Ranchos of California List of Ranchos of California
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