(CALIFORNIA) Land grant to two Mexican American women to est

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(CALIFORNIA.) Land grant to two Mexican-American women to establish San Diego cattle ranches. 10 pages of manuscript transcripts, plus later manuscript docket leaf reading "Contrato de un terreno en que son propetarias las Señoras Guadalupe Estudillo de Arguello y Doña Josefa Carrillo de Fitch." Folio, stitched; moderate wear, dampstaining along top edge. Santo Tomas, Baja California, 29 March 1852

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A manuscript transcript of an 6 June 1846 land grant from Alta California governor Pío Pico to two wealthy Mexican women to establish cattle ranches in San Diego, CA. One of the recipients, Guadalupe Estudillo de Argüello, was the wife of San Diego-area rancher Santiago E. Argüello, who would fight for the United States in the Mexican-American War. The other, Josefa Carrillo de Fitch, was the wife of San Diego merchant Henry D. Fitch, an early Anglo settler. The original grant was made in Los Angeles just months before the United States occupied the city, making Governor Pico the last governor of Alta California. The present transcript was made in Baja California six years later.