Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos was a Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Justo Larios.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 name means the Valley of the Little Captains. The grant was south of present day San Jose and bounded on the west by the Guadalupe River.Diseño del Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos Early Santa Clara Ranchos, Grants, Patents and Maps
History Justo Larios (1808–), son of Jose Larios, was a military artilleryman at the Presidio of San Francisco. Larios was granted the one square league Rancho Los Capitancillos in 1842. Larios sold the whole grant to Grove C. Cook (–1852) in 1845. Portrait of Justo Larios In 1848 Cook sold the northern part of the grant (Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos) to the Guadalupe Mining Company.Gray v. Quicksilver Mining Company (Circuit Court, N. D. California. June 24, 1895.), pp. 677-685 Cook died in 1852,J. P. Munro-Fraser, 1881, History of Santa Clara County, California, Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco and Charles Fossat bought the other three-quarters of the grant in a sheriff's sale.Grattan v Wiggins, 1863, Reports of cases determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 23, pp.16-39, Bancroft-Whitney Company
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 Cañada de los Capitancillos was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 132 NDFinding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892 and a portion of the grant was patented to Charles Fossatt Feb. 3, 1865, for 3,360.48 acres. A second claim was filed by Guadalupe Mining Company in 1853United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 142 ND and a portion of the grant was patented to Guadalupe Mining Company in 1871. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886
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