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Rancho La Purísima Concepción 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 fo ...

in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Gorgonio and his son José Ramon,

Ohlone The Ohlone, formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish meaning 'coast dweller'), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast. When Spanish explorers and missionaries arrived in the late 18th century, the Ohlone inhabited the ...

Indians. The granted extended from Matadero Creek (

Rancho Corte de Madera Rancho el Corte de Madera was a Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Máximo Martínez. The name translates as "the place where lumber is cut". The roughly triangula ...

) to Adobe Creek and encompassed present day Los Altos Hills.

History

José Gorgonio and his son José Ramon, were Indians at the

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. In 1844 Gorgonio sold the one square league Rancho La Purísima Concepción to Juana Briones de Miranda (1802-1889), the daughter of Marcos Briones, who came with his father Ygnacio Briones to San Diego in 1769 and Maria Tapia, who came with her parents to San Francisco with the Anza Party. Her brother, Gregorio Briones, was grantee of Rancho Las Baulines. She married Apolinario Miranda, a

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soldier, in 1820, and later gained a legal separation. The name translates literally to "The land of the Immaculate Conception". With the cession of California to the United States following the

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, 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 La Purísima Concepción 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 Juana Briones de Miranda in 1871. Juana Briones sold about three quartes of her rancho in 1861 to Martin Murphy Jr. (1807-1884) of

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, who had come to California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844. She gave the remaining of her rancho to her children, who bore their father’s name, Miranda.

Historic sites of the Rancho

*Site of Juana Briones de Miranda Home. Site Of Juana Briones de Miranda Home on Rancho la Purísima Concepción

References

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