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Rancho Cañada del Corte de Madera was a
Mexican land grant In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish concessions of land were made to retired soldiers as an indu ...
in present day
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given in 1833 by Governor
José Figueroa José María Figueroa (1792 – 29 September 1835) was a Californio politician and military leader. He was a General and the Mexican Governor of Alta California from 1833 to 1835. His ''Manifesto'' (1835) was the first book published in Calif ...
to
José Domingo Peralta José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , ...
and Máximo Martínez. The name translates as "the valley where lumber is cut". The grant was located west of today's
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, and south of
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near Searsville Lake, and covered most of the Portola Valley.


History

Mexican governor, José Figueroa, granted one square league to Máximo Martínez and José Domingo Peralta in 1833. José Domingo Peralta's father,
Luís María Peralta Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...
, was the grantee of Rancho San Antonio. In 1821, José Domingo Peralta (1795–1865) married Paulina Antonio de Garcia Pacheco (d. 1833), whose father was the grantee of Rancho San Ramon. After the death of his wife, Domingo Peralta sold his share in the property to Martinez in 1834, and returned to Rancho San Antonio. Máximo Martínez (1792–1863) had been a soldier in
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from 1819 until 1827. He was regidor (councilman) in the
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in 1833. He married Damiana Padilla, and in 1834 the couple moved onto his rancho, until his death in 1863. In 1844 Máximo Martínez was granted the surrounding Rancho el Corte de Madera by Governor
Manuel Micheltorena Joseph Manuel María Joaquin Micheltorena y Llano (8 June 1804 – 7 September 1853) was a brigadier general and adjutant-general of the Mexican Army, List_of_governors_of_California_before_1850#Mexican_governors_of_California_(1837–47), gover ...
. With the
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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 Cañada del Corte de Madera was filed by Máximo Martínez with the
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in 1852. The grant was
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to Máximo Martínez in 1858, for 13,316.05 acres. A separate claim was filed by Domingo Peralta. In 1857, Cipriano Thurn and
Horace Carpentier Horace Walpole Carpentier (1824–1918) was a lawyer and the first mayor of Oakland, California. He is also remembered as president of the Overland Telegraph Company and for defrauding the Peralta family, a prominent Californio family who histo ...
, Domingo Peralta's attorneys, claimed one-half of the rancho for Peralta, disputing the alleged sale in 1834 of one half of the rancho to Martínez. In 1882, Cipriano Thurn and
Horace Carpentier Horace Walpole Carpentier (1824–1918) was a lawyer and the first mayor of Oakland, California. He is also remembered as president of the Overland Telegraph Company and for defrauding the Peralta family, a prominent Californio family who histo ...
were
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3,565.91 acres. Local historian Dorothy F. Regnery believes that this rancho was obtained in less than honest fashion. Appendix B of her book outlines a case that the survey was fraudulent and that the claims were denied in court in 1865 (Judgement Book E, p. 672).Dorothy F. Regnery, "The History of Jasper Ridge From Searsville Pioneers to Stanford Scientists", 1991, Stanford Historical Society, pages 27-8


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1833 establishments in Alta California