Rancho Yerba Buena or Rancho Socayre was a
Mexican land grant in present day
Santa Clara County, California given in 1833 by Governor
José Figueroa to Antonio Chaboya (also spelled Chavoya or Chabolla). The grant was between
Coyote Creek on the west and the foothills, and encompassed present day
Evergreen neighborhood of southeast
San José
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History
Francisco Xavier Antonio Chaboya (1803–1865) was the son of
De Anza Expedition soldier Marcos Chaboya, and a brother of Anastasio Chaboya, grantee of
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. Antonio Chaboya married his first wife Maria Juliana Feliciana Rosario Buitron in 1826. After her death, he married Maria Ramona Encarnacion Higuera in 1846.
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 Yerba Buena was filed with the
Public Land Commission
The California Land Act of 1851 (), enacted following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the admission of California as a state in 1850, established a three-member Public Land Commission to determine the validity of prior Spanish and Mexican la ...
in 1852, and the grant was
patented to Antonio Chaboya in 1859.
Gustave Touchard (1818–1888) bought part of Rancho Yerba Buena from Chaboya. Touchard was a San Francisco furniture dealer, and president of the Union Insurance Company from 1866 to 1888. During a lengthy court proceeding regarding a boundary dispute, squatters settled on portions of the property. In 1861, San Jose sheriff Murphy evicted the squatters. Antonio Chaboya died in 1865, leaving the property to his family. His son, Francisco Chaboya, and nephew, Salvador Chaboya (1837–) were named as executors of the will.
The marshy area of the rancho known as Laguna Socayre was drained for farmland, and is now the site of
Lake Cunningham Park and
Eastridge Mall in San José; Lake Cunningham serves as storm water
retention basin.
Coyote Creek Watershed Historical Ecology Study
Santa Clara Valley Water District 2006
References
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