Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes was a
Mexican land grant
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in present-day
Sacramento County
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and
San Joaquin County, California
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given in 1844 by Governor
Manuel Micheltorena to Anastasio Chaboya. Sanjon is Spanish for ditch or deep slough. The grant stretched from the
Cosumnes River
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on the north to the
Mokelumne River
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on the south, and encompassed present-day
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History
Anastasio de Jesus Chaboya (1805–1852), son of
De Anza Expedition
Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire. He is credited as one of the founding fa ...
soldier Marcos Chaboya, and brother of Antonio Chaboya grantee of
Rancho Yerba Buena. Anastasio was a soldier of the San Francisco Company, and married Maria Josefa Higuera in 1829. He was granted the eight square league Rancho San Juan de los Moquelumnes in 1844.
With the
cession
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of California to the United States following the
Mexican-American War, the 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes was filed with the
Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Anastasio Chaboya in 1865.
Anastasio Chaboya was present at the murder of Edward Pyle, and a warrant was issued for Chaboya’s arrest, but he was at the mines at the time. In 1852, Anastacio Chaboya was found hanging from a tree. No one ever confessed to the lynching of Chaboya. Chaboya died leaving 7 children - Angel Maria, Jose Antonio, Jose Fernando, Jose Fecundo, Maria Ygnacia, Maria Juana and Maria Micaela Policarpia. Eventually all the children sold their interests in the grant except for Policarpia.
William Hicks (1817–1884), was a native of
Tennessee
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who came to California with the
Chiles-Walker party in 1843. Known by most as "Uncle Billy", Hicks became friends with
John Sutter
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. Hicks married Susannah Patterson at Sutter’s Fort in 1848. He later married Sarah Davis Wilson, widow of sheriff Wilson. Hicks amassed a land empire, in Sacramento, San Joaquin,
Stanislaus and
Sonoma Counties, plus
Marin County, where in 1855 he bought plus of
Rancho Corte Madera de Novato. "Uncle Billy" Hicks died in 1884 at his home in Hicksville, Sacramento County, a town no longer in existence. There was a post office named Hicksville, 1860-1889. Hicksville dissolved in 1889 when the Central Pacific Railroad made Galt its headquarters between
Lodi and
Sacramento
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Hicks acquired Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes in 1861, but lost in mortgage foreclosure to John F. McCauley in 1867. John F. McCauley married Caroline Wilson, William Hicks step daughter. John F. McCauley later acquired a great deal of the Hick's estate.
John F. McCauley Reed, G. Walter, 1923, ''History of Sacramento County, California'', Pages 297-299. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
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References
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External links
Diseño del Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes- 1865
at The Bancroft Library
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Sanjon de los Moquelumnes
Ranchos of Sacramento County, California
History of San Joaquin County, California