Santa Clara Land Papers: Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Geraldo Licon in October 2009; supplementary encoding and
revision by Diann Benti in 2017.
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San Marino, California 91108
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Santa Clara Land Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1849-1890
Bulk dates: 1850-1869
Collection Number: mssSanta Clara Land papers
Extent:
136 items in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains 136 documents chiefly dealing with
estates and land transactions in Santa Clara County, California, from 1850 to 1869; some notable estates represented in
the collection are those of: Ygnacio Alviso, Anastacio
Chavoya, Pablo de la Guerra, Jose Dolores Pacheco, Juan Sepulveda, and Robert
Stockton. There are also two maps and one song of San Jose, California.
Language: English.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Santa Clara Land Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Provenance
Purchased from Burger and Evans, August 9, 1971.
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents chiefly dealing with
the estates and land deals in Santa Clara County, California. This collection includes 136 items covering 1849 to 1890,
with the bulk of
the documents relating to the 1850s and 1860s. The material includes the following
kinds of documents: depositions, powers of attorney, wills, petitions, notices,
agreements, leases, indentures and plats. The documents chiefly deal with the
estates and land deals of several citizens of California; some of those significant
individuals included in the collection are: Ygnacio Alviso, Anastacio Chavoya, Pablo
de la Guerra, Jose Dolores Pacheco, Juan Sepulveda, and Robert Stockton. The
collection also includes two maps and one song of San Jose, California.
Arrangement
Organized into forty folders arranged
alphabetically by estate name.
Indexing: Added Entries
Alviso,Ygnacio
-
Subject in “Estate of Ygnacio Alviso” (1849-1858). Folder 1.
Chaboya, Anastacio
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Subject in “Estate of Anastacio Chaboya” (1856-1861). Folder 10.
Guerra, Pablo de la, 1819-1874
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Subject in “Estate of Anastacio Chaboya” (1856-1861). Folder 10.
Pacheco, Jose Dolores
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Subject in “Estate of Jose Dolores Pacheco” (1851-1862). Folder 29.
Rodríguez Sepúlveda, Juan Agustín, 1894
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Subject in “Estate of Juan Sepulveda” (1853). Folder 31.
Stockton, Robert Field, 1795-1866
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Subject in “Estate of Otto Bendeleben” (1857-1858). Folder 6.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Alviso,
Ygnacio.
Chaboya,
Anastacio.
Guerra, Pablo de la,
1819-1874.
Pacheco, Jose
Dolores.
Rodríguez Sepúlveda,
Juan Agustín, 1894-
Stockton, Robert Field,
1795-1866.
Subjects
Mexicans -- California.
Real property -- California -- Santa
Clara County.
Geographic Areas
California -- History --
19th century -- Sources.
San Jose
(Calif.)
Santa Clara County
(Calif.)
Genre
Agreements -- California -- 19th
century.
Indentures -- California -- 19th
century.
Petitions -- California -- 19th
century.
Plats (maps) -- California -- 19th
century.
Wills -- California -- 19th
century.
Folder 1
Estate of Ygnacio Alviso.
1849-1858
Physical Description: 7 items.
Folder 2
Estate of Sterling Alford.
1852
Physical Description: 2 items.
Folder 3
Estate of Jose Ramon Arguello.
1865
Physical Description: 2 items.
Folder 4
Estate of John Barker.
1852
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 5
Estate of Thomas Baum.
1850
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 6
Estate of Otto Bendeleben.
1857-1858
Physical Description: 2 items.
Folder 7
Estate of Van Bennett.
1854-1858
Physical Description: 3 items.
Folder 8
Estate of Antonio Buelna.
1856
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 9
Estate of Antonio Castro.
1851-1863
Physical Description: 2 items
Folder 10
Estate of Anastacio Chaboya.
1856-1861
Physical Description: 10 items
Folder 11
Estate of J.P. Clay.
1857-1859
Physical Description: 2 items.
Folder 12
Estate of Grove C. Cook.
1857-1859
Physical Description: 2 items
Folder 13
Estate of Samuel J Crosby.
1860
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 14
Estate of Augte Desfogei.
1890
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 15
Estate of James Donahue.
1863-1864
Physical Description: 2 items
Folder 16
Estate of Henry Frank.
1852
Physical Description: 2 items
Folder 17
Estate of Bartolo Garcia.
1853
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 18
Estate of Aguilla Glover.
1855
Physical Description: 2 items
Folder 19
Estate of Thomas B. Godden.
1852-1853
Physical Description: 4 items
Folder 20
Estate of William Gulnack.
1852-1854
Physical Description: 5 items
Folder 21
Estate of George Harlan.
1848-1864
Physical Description: 8 items
Folder 22
Estate of Hiram P. Hastings.
1854
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 23
Estate of John Hughes.
1855
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 24
Estate of James S. Jackson.
1853-1858
Physical Description: 7 items
Folder 25
Estate of John W. Jenkins.
1852
Physical Description: 2 items
Folder 26
Estate of James Jones.
1855
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 27
Estate of Jose Maria Antonio Mesa.
1850-1852
Physical Description: 8 items
Folder 28
Estate of Bernard Murphy.
1853-1854
Physical Description: 4 items
Folder 29
Estate of Jose Dolores Pacheco.
1851-1862
Physical Description: 13 items
Folder 30
Estate of Francis Rowe.
1850-1853
Physical Description: 3 items
Folder 31
Estate of Juan Sepulveda.
1853
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 32
Estate of John S. Snyder.
1870
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 33
Estate of Guadalupe Soto.
1853
Physical Description: 2 items
Folder 34
Estate of Antonio Sunol.
1865-1885
Physical Description: 2 items
Folder 35
Estate of Serafin Toledo.
1850-1851
Physical Description: 3 items
Folder 36
Estate of John Townsend.
1851-1852
Physical Description: 5 items
Folder 37
Estate of John J. Umiker.
1852-1857
Physical Description: 5 items
Folder 38
Documents from Unknown Estates.
1851-1866
Physical Description: 10 items
Folder 39
Estate of Francisca G. de Walkinshaw.
1874
Physical Description: 1 item
Folder 40
Estate of Charles White.
1852-1854
Physical Description: 4 items
