Rancho Los Tularcitos

Rancho Los Tularcitos was a 4,394-acre (17.78 km2) Spanish land concession in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1821 to José Loreto Higuera by the last Spanish governor of Alta California, Pablo Vicente de Solá. The land grant was confirmed by Mexican Governor Juan Alvarado in 1839.[1] The name means "place of the little Tule thickets". The rancho, in what is today central and northern Milpitas, extended from the confluence of Calera and Pennitencia creeks in the northwest to a large live oak tree that marked its southeastern corner. South of Rancho Los Tularcitos was the land of the Pueblo of San José.[2][3]

Not to be confused with Rancho Tularcitos (Goméz).
Rancho Los Tularcitos
Mexican land grant
Rancho Los Tularcitos is located in California
Rancho Los Tularcitos
Rancho Los Tularcitos
Location of Santa Clara County, Californiay
Coordinates: 37°27′36″N 121°54′0″W
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
Settled1821
Area
 • Total4,394 acres (1,778 ha)

History

Ygnacio Anastacio Higuera (1753–1805) came to California with the De Anza Expedition of 1776. Along the way, Ygnacio Higuera married Maria Micaela Bojorquez (1762–1794). Ygnacio Higuera was a soldier at the Presidio of San Francisco. He moved to the Pueblo of San José, and was killed in 1805. Ygnacio's son, Jose Loreto Higuera (1778–1845), married Maria Pilar Sanchez (1778–1811) in 1794. After she died, José Higuera married Ramona Bernal (1794–1831) in 1813.[4]

Between 1817 and 1822, Spanish Governor Sola made several land grants, and José Loreto Higuera was awarded Rancho Los Tularcitos in 1821.[5] José Higuera married Ramona Garcia (1812 - ) in 1832.[6] In 1836 José Loreto Higuera's son, Fulgencio Higuera, was the grantee of Rancho Agua Caliente. In 1843, his son Valentin Higuera was the grantee of Rancho Pescadero.[7] The Rancho Los Tularcitos land grant to Jose Higuera was confirmed by Mexican Governor Alvarado in 1839.

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 Los Tularcitos was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[8][9] and the grant patented to Antonia Higuera et al., the heirs of Jose Higuera in 1870.[10][11]

The beginning of the break-up of the rancho is said to have begun with the land given to José Loreto Higuera's grand daughter, daughter of Valentin Higuera, Maria Margarita Higuera, when she married Nicolas Chavarria.[12][13] Henry Curtner (1830–1917) purchased Rancho Tularcitos in 1868.[14]

Historic sites of the Rancho
  • José Higuera Adobe. Soon after being given the land, José Higuera built a one story adobe for what would be, his fourteen children from three marriages.[15]

References
  1. Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  2. Diseño del Rancho Los Tularcitos
  3. Early Santa Clara Ranchos, Grants, Patents and Maps
  4. Jose Loreto Higuera
  5. Hoover, Mildred B.; Rensch, Hero; Rensch, Ethel; Abeloe, William N. (1966). Historic Spots in California. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4482-9.
  6. Milpitas History
  7. Robert L. Burrill, 2004, Milpitas, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-2910-3
  8. United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 228 ND
  9. Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
  10. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Higueras v. United States, US Supreme Court, 72 U.S. 5 Wall. 827 827 (1866)
  12. Jacqueline Higuera McMahan, 2003,California Rancho Cooking: Mexican and Californian Recipes, Sasquatch Books, ISBN 978-1-57061-384-5, "Maria Higuera's Wedding"
  13. Jacob A. Morenhout v Valentin Higuera, 1867, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 32, Pages 289-296, Bancroft-Whitney Company
  14. Henry Curtner
  15. Higuera Adobe
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