Rancho Del Puerto was a

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in present-day

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given in 1844 by Governor

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to Mariano and Pedro Hernández. The grant extended east of the present-day Highway 33 to the San Joaquin River. The northern boundary was Del Puerto Creek and the southern boundary was just south of Marshall Road, and encompassed present-day Patterson.

History

Brothers Mariano and Pedro Hernandez received the 3 square league Rancho Del Puerto in 1844. Samuel G. Reed and Ruben S. Wade acquired the property. With the cession of California to the United States following the

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, the 1848

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provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Del Puerto was filed with the

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in 1853, and the grant was patented to Samuel G. Reed and Ruben S. Wade in 1864. Reed and Wade sold Rancho Del Puerto to J.O. Eldredge in 1866. Two months later, he sold it to John D. Patterson. John D. Patterson (1816–1902) came to California in 1854 bringing with him

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French merino sheep.''George Henry Tinkham, 1821, History of Stanislaus County California'', Historic Record Company, Los Angeles Patterson bought more land and owned three ranches in California including of

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near

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. Patterson married Caroline L. Gage (1826–) in 1866. Patterson returned to

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with his wife and his brother in 1890, to run the Patterson Works, a family farm implement firm. When Patterson died in 1902, a total of acres was willed to nephews Thomas W. Patterson and William W. Patterson, executors of his estate, and other heirs. Two of the heirs, Thomas W. Patterson and John D. Patterson bought out the other heirs and incorporated the Patterson Ranch Company on May 16, 1908.

References

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