Rancho San Lorenzo was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Benito and Monterey County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Rafael 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 was east of Soberanes Rancho San Lorenzo, and bounded on the north by Topo Creek.Diseño del Rancho San Lorenzo
History Rafael Sanchez came from Mexico to California in 1842 as secretary to Governor Manuel Micheltorena. He married Maria Antonia Castro (1826-), daughter of Jose Simeon Castro, grantee of Rancho Punta del Año Nuevo and Maria Antonia Pico grantee of Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo. Sanchez was granted the eleven square league Rancho San Lorenzo by Governor Pío Pico.
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 was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853,United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 277 SDFinding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892 and the grant was patented to Rafael Sanchez in 1870. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
See also Ranchos of California List of Ranchos of California
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