Inventory of the Land Grant Collection, 1700-1993 (bulk 1765-1933)

New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
Archives and Historical Services Division
1205 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
Phone: 505-476-7908
Fax: 505-476-7909
Email: archives@state.nm.us
URL: http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/



©2000

New Mexico State Records Center and Archives


Collection Summary

Title Land Grant Collection,
Dates (Inclusive) 1700-1993 (bulk 1765-1933)
Creator New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
Collection Number 1959-133
Size 2.25 linear feet
Repository New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
Languages English, , and Spanish.

Organization

Collection is organized into four series:

I. General Land Grant Information

II. Pueblo Indian Land Grants

III. Individual Land Grants

IV. Arizona, Arkansas, and Texas Land Grants (formerly Not New Mexico Land Grants Collection)

Scope and Content

Collection consists of a broad range of documents (originals and copies) pertaining to land grants in New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas, and Texas. The bulk of the documents pertain to Pueblo Indian and individual land grants in New Mexico (1700-1933). Collection was created by the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives.

Some materials are in Spanish.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

None

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Land Grant Collection, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Access Terms

Conveyances

Land grants -- Arizona

Land grants -- Arkansas

Land grants -- New Mexico

Land grants -- Texas

Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- New Mexico

Contents List

General Land Grant Information 

Description Container

List of New Mexico Private Land Claims. 1906?

Box 1 Folder 1

List of Private Land Claims Brought Before the U.S. Court of Private Land Claims in the New Mexico District. Nd

Box 1 Folder 2

Listing of Title Book B (original in Huntington Library, San Marino, CA). 1764-1822

Box 1 Folder 3

Argument and Proposed Amendments to the Act Creating the Court of Private Land Claims. 1891 March

Box 1 Folder 4

Surveyor General: Survey Briefs. 1895

Box 1 Folder 5

Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office (copy). 1862

Box 1 Folder 6

Conveyance of Land Grants Owned by George Hill Howard. 1895 Oct. 25

Box 1 Folder 7

Petition (typescript and translation): Jose Pablo Trujillo and Others for Lands at Rito de La Gallina, Jurisdiction of Pueblo Quemado. 1825-1828

Box 1 Folder 8

Letter (carbon copy): Ortiz Mine and Sierra Mosca Grant. 1900 Mar. 12

Box 1 Folder 9

Correspondence: Sandoval County Land Grant Taxes. 1926-1933

Box 1 Folder 10

Pueblo Indian Land Grants 

Description Container

Acoma Land Grant: Patent (copy). 1879

Box 2 Folder 11

Pueblo of Laguna: Patent (copy). 1909

Box 2 Folder 12

Pueblo of Laguna: Purchase Patent (copy). 1884

Box 2 Folder 13

Jemez Pueblo: U.S. Confirmation (copy). 1864 Nov. 1

Box 2 Folder 14

Pueblo of Pecos Grant: Abstract of Title to Exception #316. 1956

Box 2 Folder 15

Sandia and Isleta Pueblos: Two Sale Documents (English typescripts). 1748-1751

Box 2 Folder 16

Sandia Pueblo: Cruzate Grant (copy). 1689

Box 2 Folder 17

Sandia Pueblo: Dispute Over Encroachment by Settlers who Purchased Land Originally Granted to Juan de Uribarri. 1712-1826

Box 2 Folder 18

Zuni Pueblo Grant: Patent (copy). 1933

Box 2 Folder 19

Agua Salada Land Grant: Patent (copy). 1909

Box 2 Folder 20

Sandia Pueblo vs. Pedro C. Garcia (#604, U.S. District Court in New Mexico): Argument and Brief. Nd

Box 2 Folder 21

Individual Land Grants 

Description Container

Alameda: Notes (carbon copy). Nd

Box 3 Folder 22

Las Animas: Correspondence. 1869-1873

Box 3 Folder 23

Town of Anton Chico vs. U.S. (1891) and Hugh Reilly vs. Robert Shipman (1920): Court Documents (copy and original). 1891,1920

Box 3 Folder 24

Antonio Baca. 1842 May 22

Box 3 Folder 25

Antonio Sandoval (Bosque del Apache) (copies). 1877 Mar. 21

Box 3 Folder 26

Bartolome Baca (Estancia Valley): Early History. Nd

Box 3 Folder 27

Jose Manuel Sanchez Baca: Documento de Merced. 1904

Box 3 Folder 28

Preston Beck: Tax Documents. 1902

Box 3 Folder 29

Caja del Rio: Typescripts of Spanish Documents. 1740, Nd

Box 3 Folder 30

Canada de Los Alamos: Patent (copy). 1911

Box 3 Folder 31

Canon del Agua. 1845-1846

Box 3 Folder 32

Canon de Agua: Bound Title Papers. Nd

Box 3 Folder 33

Canon de Chama: Quit-Claim Deed. 1896

Box 3 Folder 34

Canon de San Diego: Warranty Deeds. 1789

Box 3 Folder 35

Casa Colorado: Record Book. 1903-1921

Box 3 Folder 36

Cebolleta: Patent (copy) and Land Taxes. 1861,1881-1882

Box 3 Folder 37

Cebolleta: List of Grantees. Nd

Box 3 Folder 38

Chamita Grant: Correspondence. 1920-1921

Box 3 Folder 39

Juan de Chavez: Original and Copy. Nd

Box 3 Folder 40

Ignacio Chaves Patent: Patent (copy). 1899

Box 3 Folder 41

Cienguilla (copies). 1877

Box 3 Folder 42

Cubero: Patent (copy). 1900

Box 3 Folder 43

Santo Domingo de Cundiyo. 1838 Jul. 20

Box 3 Folder 44

Dona Ana Bend Colony: List of Trustees. Nd

Box 3 Folder 45

El Rito Colorado: Merced del Rito Colorado. 1824 Apr. 14

Box 3 Folder 46

Dispute Between Casey Sanchez and BLM (copies). 1993

Box 3 Folder 47

Bartolome Fernandez (copies). 1903

Box 3 Folder 48

Galisteo: #54, Court of Private Land Claims (Luciano Chaves and Others vs. U.S.). 1892

Box 3 Folder 49

Gijosa- Taos. Circa. 1716

Box 3 Folder 50

Jacona Grant: Notes (carbon copies). 1706,1721,1728

Box 3 Folder 51

San Jose de Las Huertas. 1847 Feb. 24

Box 3 Folder 52

San Antonio de Las Huertas: WPA File (copy) People of the San Antonio de Las Huertas Grant, New Mexico, 1767-1900, by Andrew T. Smith. Circa. 1930s

Box 3 Folder 53

Las Vegas: Letters (carbon copies). 1913 Feb. 17

Box 3 Folder 54

Las Vegas: Notice to the Public (English and Spanish). 1873 Jan 3

Box 3 Folder 55

Las Vegas. 1905-1916

Box 3 Folder 56

Las Vegas. 1894-1917

Box 3 Folder 57

Las Vegas. 1906-1909

Box 3 Folder 58

Las Vegas. 1904-1909

Box 3 Folder 59

Las Vegas. 1910-1921

Box 3 Folder 60

Luis Maese (copies). 1700

Box 3 Folder 61

Manzano (original and copy), #387. Nd

Box 3 Folder 62

Marques and Padilla. 1883

Box 3 Folder 63

Martinez. 1847

Box 3 Folder 64

[unittitle added: see error report] 

Box 3 Folder 64

Maxwell: Published: #79, In Chancery in the District Court of Colfax County Thomas A. Scott and Samuel M, Felton vs. Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Co. and Farmers Loan and Trust Co. 1879

Box 3 Folder 65

Beaubien and Miranda (#150, SANM I: Correspondence and Clipping). 1885-1887

Box 3 Folder 66

Maxwell: Report of E. Platt Stratton. 1881 Sept. 2

Box 3 Folder 67

Maxwell: Printed Notices. 1880s

Box 3 Folder 68

Maxwell: Published Prospectus. Nd

Box 3 Folder 69

Maxwell: Correspondence. 1877

Box 3 Folder 70

Maxwell: Schedule of Taxes. 1889-1891

Box 3 Folder 71

Maxwell: Copies of Purchase Documents (Cimarron, town lots, plats, purchases). 1871 Jul. 27

Box 3 Folder 72

Maxwell: Court Documents, Includes U. S. District Court Case In Equity Henry A. Kiker vs. Frederick H. Wickett et al. 1915

Box 3 Folder 73

Mesilla Civil Colony: Clipping (copy). 1874

Box 3 Folder 74

Bernabe Montano: Patent (copy). 1909

Box 3 Folder 75

Miguel and Santiago Montoya: Patent (copy). 1925

Box 3 Folder 76

Lo de Mora- Taos: Request for Land (Mathew Kinkead and Francisco Conn). 1834

Box 3 Folder 77

Nuestra Senora de Las Lagunitas: Patent (copy). 1902

Box 3 Folder 78

Ojo Del Espiritu: Patent (copy). 1916

Box 3 Folder 79

Ojo Caliente: Sale to Antonio Joseph (copy). 1873 Aug. 3

Box 3 Folder 80

Antonio Ortiz: Published Abstract to Title. Nd

Box 3 Folder 81

Antonio Ortiz: Survey Field Notes (Carbon Copy). 1926

Box 3 Folder 82

Perea Land Grant: Field Notes, Re-Survey. 1874

Box 3 Folder 83

Petaca (copies). 1883-1893

Box 3 Folder 84

Piedra Lumbre: Clipping (copy). 1956

Box 3 Folder 85

Piedra Lumbre: Quit-Claim Deed. 1894

Box 3 Folder 86

Refugio Colony (copies). 1884-1885

Box 3 Folder 87

Gaspar Ortiz (typescript). 1895

Box 3 Folder 88

Plaza Blanca, Plaza Colorado: Survey Field Notes (carbon copy). 1923

Box 3 Folder 89

Rio de Tesuque (Court of Private Land Claims #123, Surveyor General #98): Typescript Translation. 1788

Box 3 Folder 90

San Isidro de Rio de Tesuque (English typescript). 1788

Box 3 Folder 91

Antonio de Salazar (#132, Surveyor General): Published Letter from the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. 1882-1884

Box 4 Folder 92

Sangre de Cristo-Trinchera Colony Tract: Abstract of Title (copy). 1908

Box 4 Folder 93

Sangre de Cristo: Diversion of Water from Costilla River. 1930-1941

Box 4 Folder 94

Sangre de Cristo: Land Petition (original and translation). 1842

Box 4 Folder 95

San Mateo Springs: Patent (copy). 1909

Box 4 Folder 96

San Miguel del Bado: Deed, George H. and Mary E. Penniman to Levi P. Morton. 1884

Box 4 Folder 97

Alleged Santa Fe Copper Mine (copies). 1869

Box 4 Folder 98

Antonio Sedillo: Patent (copy). 1907

Box 4 Folder 99

La Joya de Sevilla: Warranty Deed (copy), Vidal Saliz de Cordoba to Maria Cordova. 1919 Apr. 25

Box 4 Folder 100

La Joya de Sevilleta: Deed, Juan Cruz Trujillo to Salvador Armijo 1820 Jun. 20 102 La Joya de Sevilleta (copies). 1931

Box 4 Folder 101

Felipe Tafoya: Patent (copy). 1895

Box 4 Folder 103

Tecolote: Patent (copy). 1856

Box 4 Folder 104

Tejon: Request for Partition. 1882 Oct. 9

Box 4 Folder 105

Tierra Amarilla: Hernandez Abstract to Title (copy). 1901 107 Tierra Amarilla: Abstract (copy). 1909

Box 4 Folder 106

Tome: Published case #1384, Supreme Court of New Mexico, George W. Bond at al. Vs. Unknown Heirs of Juan Barela. 1911

Box 4 Folder 108

Las Truchas: Nuestra Senora del Rosario, San Fernando y Santiago (copy). 1905

Box 4 Folder 109

Las Truchas vs. Las Trampas Acequia Dispute (original and copy). 1755 May-June

Box 4 Folder 110

Las Truchas: Nuestra Senora del Rosario. 1853

Box 4 Folder 111

Las Trampas: Published Report. Nd

Box 4 Folder 112

San Pedro and Canon del Agua Grants: Bound title papers (Santa Fe and Copper Mining Co.). 1880 Apr. 26

Box 4 Folder 113

Arizona, Arkansas, and Texas Land Grants (Formerly Not New Mexico Land Grants Collection) 

Description Container

Senecu Pueblo (Texas): Proceedings under Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (copies). 

Box 5 Folder 114

Pueblo de Santa Rosa (Arizona): Tribal Brief (unfiled), Pueblo de Santa Rosa vs. Secretary of the Interior. Nd

Box 5 Folder 115

Tipton and Flipper Arizona Land Grant Titles (copies). 1897

Box 5 Folder 116

Beales Colony (Arkansas). 1881

Box 5 Folder 117

Beales Land Grant Papers (Texas and New Mexico). 1886-1902

Box 5 Folder 118

Beales Colony (Texas and New Mexico)- copies. 1887

Box 5 Folder 119

Court of Private Land Claims-Arizona District. Nd

Box 5 Folder 120

Pelham Humphries (copies). 1835

Box 5 Folder 121