Rancho El Pinole: Difference between revisions

==History==

Ygnacio Martínez (1774-1848) was commandant of the [[Presidio of San Francisco]] from 1822 – 1827, and again from 1828 – 1832, and was a member of the [[List of pre-statehood mayors of San Francisco|town council]] in 1824 and 1827. Martinez retired in 1831. Martinez represented to the Mexican authorities in 1834, that in consideration of his military service, Governor [[Luís Antonio Argüello]] in 1823 gave him title to a tract of land known as Pinole y Canada del Hambre. Martinez stated that he had lost his title papers. Record evidence was not found to support his claim, and he was required to petition anew, which he did in 1837. While proceedings were pending upon the Martinez petition, Felipe Briones in 1839, also petitioned for a grant of El Pinole. In 1842, Governor Alvarado, made a four square league grant of Rancho El Pinole to Ygnacio Martinez, and a three square league grant of [[Rancho Boca de la Canada del Pinole]] to Briones.<ref>J. P. Munro-Fraser,1882,''History of Contra Costa County, California'', W.A. Slocum.</ref>

 

*Fernandez Mansion. During the 1850s Bernardo Fernandez, a Portuguese immigrant, started a trading facility on the shores of San Pablo Bay and eventually built the historic Fernandez Mansion.<ref>[http://www.noehill.com/contracosta/nat1973000399.asp Bernardo Fernandez House (National Register #73000399)]</ref>

*Samuel Tennent House. The 1851 home of early Anglo-American settler in Contra Costa County, Dr. Samuel J. Tennent, who married Ygnacio Martinez’s daughter Rafaela. Tennent, through his wife Rafaela, owned much of the land in the area.

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