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Rancho Corral de Piedra

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Rancho Corral de Piedra was a 30,911-acre (125.09 km2), Seven Leagues, Mexican land grant in present
day San Luis Obispo County, California consisting of two square leagues given in 1841 by Governor Juan
B. Alvarado to José María Villavicencio, with an extension of five square leagues given in 1846, by
Governor Pio Pico. The grant was located between present day San Luis Obispo and Arroyo Grande, and Notes:
bounded on the south by Arroyo Grande Creek. The land grant was surveyed and patented on October
29, 1867.
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150 anniversary on
José María Teodoro Villavicencio (1800–1853), called for brevity Villa, was the grandson of Rafael de
Jesus Villavicencio (a soldier and member of the Portola expedition) and Maria Ildefonsa Berges. José October 29, 2017
María Villavicencio retired as captain of the militia at Monterey, and was administrator at Mission San
Antonio and Mission San Fernando. Villavicencio first married Maria Gertrudis Briones
(1802 to 1832) the daughter of Jose Manuel Briones (1774 to 1849) and Maria Steven Dorsi, Jay Stream’s
Raymunda Buelna (1780 to 1808). After Maria Gertrudis death, he remarried to Maria lawyer, handled the sale of La
Francisca Rafaela Elisabet o Ysabel Rodriguez (1814 to aft.1880?) the daughter of Lomita to Pedro Salas. Steven
Sebastian Rodríguez grantee of Rancho Bolsa del Pajaro and Maria Perfecta Pacheco. ordered a complete title
His brother, Rafael Jose Serapio Villavicencio was the grantee of Rancho San Geronimo. history and sent it to Pedro in
Mallorca. Upon receipt of the
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, paperwork, Pedro called
the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. Steven excitedly, saying “this
As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Corral de Piedra was filed with is my land!” He was referring
the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to José María to the original grantor, José
Villavicencio in 1867. María Villavicencio, Pedro’s
ancestor! Pedro Salas could
When José María Villavicencio died in 1853, he left the rancho to his seven children. In trace Villavicencio (or another
1860, his widow Rafaela borrowed money from her brother Jacinto Rodriguez. In 1866, owner?) in his own family
Rodríguez convinced the heirs to sell him the entire rancho, which he sold to dairymen. tree.
George Steele and his brothers Edgar W., Isaac C., and Rensselaer E. Steele. In 1867, the Jay Stream launched Steven’s
heirs decided that the sale to Rodríguez was not legal, and sold six-sevenths of the career as a lawyer.

rancho to George Alexander.

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