Rancho La Goleta was a
Mexican land grant
The Spanish and Mexican governments made many concessions and land grants in Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish Concessions of land were made to retired soldiers as an inducement for ...
in present-day
Santa Barbara County, California given in 1846 by Governor
Pío Pico to
Daniel A. Hill. The grant extended along the Pacific coast from today’s Fairview Avenue in present-day
Goleta, east to
Hope Ranch
Hope Ranch is an unincorporated coastal suburb of Santa Barbara, California, located in Santa Barbara County. It is bounded on the east by Santa Barbara, on the north and west by the unincorporated area of Noleta, and on the south by the Pacifi ...
. The grant was adjacent to
Rancho Dos Pueblos Rancho Dos Pueblos was a Mexican land grant in present day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Nicolas A. Den. The rancho stretched along the Pacific coast to the northwest of today's city of Santa Barba ...
granted to his son-in-law
Nicolas A. Den in 1842.
History
The one square league grant was made to Daniel Antonio Hill in 1846.
With the
cession
The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty. Ballentine's Law Dictionary defines cession as "a surrender; a giving up; a relinquishment of jurisdictio ...
of California to the United States following the
Mexican-American War, the 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ( es, Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo), officially the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, is the peace treaty that was signed on 2 ...
provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Goleta was filed with the
Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was
patented
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...
to Daniel Antonio Hill in 1865.
The
California Gold Rush began in 1848, making Hill wealthy from the sale of beef to miners in the gold fields. Daniel Hill first sold of Rancho La Goleta to his son-in-law, T. Wallace More, in 1856, and an additional in 1864. The deaths of Den in 1862 and Hill in 1865, and the droughts of 1863 and 1864, led to the first subdivisions of the rancho.
Daniel A. Hill
Daniel A. Hill (1797–1865), of
Billerica, Massachusetts, came to California from
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state ...
in 1823, and settled in
Santa Barbara, and married Rafaela Sabina Luisa Ortega (1809–1879) in 1826. She was the granddaughter of
José Francisco Ortega José Francisco Ortega (1734 – February 1798) was an indigenous Californio soldier and early settler of Alta California. He joined the military at the age of twenty-one and rose to the rank of sergeant by the time he joined the Portola expedition ...
, grantee of
Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio
The Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio ("Ranch of Our Lady of Refuge") was a Spanish land grant to José Francisco Ortega in 1794 and is the only land grant made under Spanish and confirmed by USA in 1866 to Jose Maria Ortega.under the US Suprem ...
. Hill was a man of varied accomplishments—carpenter, stonemason, soap-maker, and farmer. He engaged in merchandising, and also acted as a superintendent for the padres in some of their farming and building operations. He built several houses, including the 1825
Hill-Carrillo Adobe, now listed the
. He was the grantee of Rancho La Goleta, where he died in 1865. His daughter Rosa A. Hill married Nicholas A. Den; daughter Josefa G. Hill married
Alexander Smith Taylor
Alexander Smith Taylor (1817–1876), best known for his ''Indianology of California'' written in a column for ''The California Farmer and Journal of Useful Arts'' (1860–1861),Teixeira, 1997. pg. 39 was an avid collector, prodigious au ...
; daughter Susana Hill married T. Wallace More; and daughter Maria Antonia married H. O'Neill; and his son Ramon J. Hill was a state senator.
[Mason, Jesse D., 1961, Reproduction of Thompson and West's, ''History of Santa Barbara & Ventura Counties California'', Howell North Books, Berkeley, California, Pages 45-47]
See also
*
Ranchos of California
*
List of Ranchos of California
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America.Shumway, Burgess ...
References
External links
Ranchos of Santa Barbara County Map
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