Heading: (Napa)
Author:
Title: Abstract of title for 626 acres in Napa County, a portion of the Chimiles Rancho
Place Published:
Publisher:Napa County Abstract Company
Date Published: 1914
Description:

83, [2] pp. Two manuscript folding maps on linen. 34.5x22 cm (13½x8¾") original half-leather and gilt stamped red cloth, string bound at left edge.

An abstract of title for a 626 acre portion of the Rancho Chimiles land grant in Napa County. Rancho Chimiles was a 17,762-acre Mexican land grant, given in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico to José Ygnacio Berreyesa. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Chimiles was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852 and the grant was patented to William Gordan and Nathan Coombs in 1860. This 1914 abstract prepared for W.H. Lambert, with his name in gilt on front cover.

Light wear to binding, dampstain to front cover and in upper margin of a few leaves; very good.