Title Papers of San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Grants
Collection
Identifier: MSS-75-BC
Scope and Content
This incomplete, bound, printed volume contains copies of various legal documents showing the history of ownership of the San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Grants from 1844 to 1880. There are deeds, field claims, briefs, decisions of the Surveyor General of New Mexico, descriptive notes of surveys, petitions of Jose Serafin Ramirez y Casanova, title of the San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Company, quitclaim deed from owners of Ortiz Grant and other legal documents.
Dates
- 1844-1880
Language of Materials
English.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Limited duplication is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy and libel laws. Permission is required for publication or distribution.
History
Jose Serafin Ramirez was a lawyer from Bernalillo County, New Mexico. He served in the New Mexico Territorial Legislature from December 1853 to January 1857 and later in December 1863 to January 1865. He filed a private land claim for the San Pedro Grant, located in Bernalillo County. He gave the boundaries on the north as the Pueblo of San Felipe, on the south, the Cañon del Agua, on the east, the Ojo del Tuerto and on the west, banks of the Rio Norte. He also petitioned for the Cañon del Agua Grant, located in Santa Fe County, east of the San Pedro Grant, since it was "vacant and without owner." He received both grants. Thereafter this these two grants have also been called the "Ramirez Grant." There was alleged fraud concerning the boundaries established for the grants and subsequent litigation. In 1866, Ramirez and his wife, Maria Antonio Sandoval, sold the grants to a group of investors for $30,000. The group consisted of Asa B. Carey, Corydon E. Cooley, Hampton B. Denman, Charles S. Hinckley, Charles W. Kitchen, and John C. McFerran. In 1888 the grants were sold to the San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Company, who brought litigation for title to mining lands within the limits of the grants. It was ruled that Ramirez only had surface land rights since the Spanish and Mexican governments reserved the rights to the minerals.
Extent
1 volume
Relevant Secondary Material
- Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Series I, Surveyor General Records and the Records of the Court of Private Land Claims.[Microfilm edition]
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Title Papers of San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Grants, 1844-1880
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by T.S. Reinig
- Date
- ©2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- June 28, 2004: PUBLIC "-//University of New Mexico::Center for Southwest Research//TEXT (US::NmU::MSS 75 BC::Title Papers of San Pedro and Canon del Agua Grants)//EN" "nmu1mss75bc.sgml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15).
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu