Rancho San Pedro was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California, given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Francisco Sanchez.Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco The grant encompasses present-day Pacifica.Diseño del Rancho San Pedro
History
The two square league grant was made to Francisco Sánchez (1805–1862), Commandante of the San Francisco Presidio and eighth alcade of the City of San Francisco after the Mexican secularization act of 1833.
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 San Pedro was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 82 NDFinding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892 and the grant was patented to Francisco Sánchez in 1870. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
When Sanchez died in 1862, the rancho was still intact, and his widow Theodora Higuera de Sanchez leased it to Francis Sievers. In 1871, the rancho was sold to James Regan (and Richard and Robert Tobin of Hibernia Bank) to pay debts.James Regan v Owen McMahon, July 1871, Reports of cases determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 41, Bancroft-Whitney Company
Historic sites of the Rancho Sánchez Adobe Park. 1842 adobe residence.Sanchez Adobe Park, National Park Service. Sanchez Adobe (No. 391) San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia Rockaway Quarry. Limestone mined from here to make whitewash for the Sánchez Adobe.
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