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Collection Summary | ||
| Title | Title Papers of San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Grants | |
| Dates (Inclusive) | 1844-1880 | |
| Creator | San Pedro and Canon del Agua Company | |
| Collection Number | MSS 75 BC | |
| Size | 1 volume | |
| Repository | University of New Mexico. Center for Southwest Research. | |
| Language | English. | |
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.
Cover of the "Title Papers to San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Grant."
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.
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Title Papers of San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Grants (MSS 75 BC), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico Libraries.
Thomas B. Catron Papers, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico
Thomas D. Campbell Papers, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico
Indian Affairs Collection Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico
Land grants - - Law and legislation - - New Mexico
Land grants - - New Mexico - - Bernalillo County
Land grants - - New Mexico - - Santa Fe County
San Pedro and Cañon del Agua Company
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Title Papers San Pedro & Cañon del Agua Grants,
1850-1880.
152 pages (Some of the final pages appear to be missing.) |
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Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Series I, Surveyor General Records and the Records of the Court of Private Land Claims.[Microfilm edition]