Rancho Los Coyotes was a 48,806-acre (197.51 km) 1834 Mexican land grant resulting from the partition of the Rancho Los Nietos grant, in present-day southeastern Los Angeles County and northwestern Orange County , California . The rancho lands include the present-day cities of Cerritos , La Mirada , Artesia , Stanton , and Buena Park .
6-567: At the request of Manuel Nieto 's heirs, Governor José Figueroa in 1834 officially declared the 167,000-acre (680 km) Rancho Los Nietos grant under Mexican rule and ordered its partition into five smaller ranchos: Las Bolsas , Los Alamitos , Los Cerritos , Los Coyotes, and Santa Gertrudes . Juan José Nieto (eldest son of Manuel Nieto) received Los Coyotes. In 1840, Juan José Nieto sold Rancho Los Coyotes to Juan Bautista Leandry, an Italian immigrant who settled in California in 1827 and
12-545: A small profit. As his cattle numbers increased, the need for more grazing land was required. In 1784, he was granted a provisional grant of the land that would become Rancho Los Nietos by Pedro Fages , the governor of Alta California . The original grant was 300,000 acres (1,200 km ), but in 1785 Father Sanchez from the San Gabriel Mission contested the Nietos grant on the grounds that it encroached upon
18-604: The Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Los Coyotes was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Andrés Pico and Francisca Uribe de O'Campo in 1875. 33°48′00″N 117°59′24″W / 33.800°N 117.990°W / 33.800; -117.990 Manuel Nieto (soldier) Jose Manuel Nieto (1734–1804) was a soldier from the Presidio of San Diego who
24-399: The southern portion of their property. A decision in favor of the mission was reached and Rancho Los Nietos was reduced to nearly half of its original size, but still leaving Corporal Nieto with 167,000 acres (680 km ). Nieto retired from duty and settled down on his rancho with his family. A small community called Los Nietos gradually built up around the Nietos adobe home, which was near
30-829: Was assigned to the Mission San Gabriel at the time his land was granted by the Spanish Empire in 1784. Nieto was a mulatto , born in Sinaloa , Mexico in 1734. He came to Alta California with the Gaspar de Portolà expedition of 1769. He served in the Royal Army in the province of Alta California. Jose Manuel Perez-Nieto was first mentioned as a soldier of the Presidio of Monterey, in 1773. Presidio soldiers were permitted to raise cattle for food and make
36-551: Was married to Maria Francisca Uribe, who renamed it "La Buena Esperanza," – The Good Hope – but it was still generally known as Los Coyotes. Leandry died in 1842, and his widow, Maria Francisca Uribe, married Francisco O'Campo. 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
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