Most of the land grants from the Mexican government were revived by the U.S. government following the Mexican-American War, particularly through the 1851 Land Act in California. This act aimed to resolve land title disputes and recognize land grants made by Mexico before the war. Additionally, various court cases and legal frameworks in the years following the war helped to affirm and restore these grants to their original recipients or their descendants.
Don Luis Maria Peralta, born 1759 died August 26th 1851, was a soldier in the Spanish Army, who received one of the largest of the Spanish land grants, the Rancho San Antonio, a 44,800 acre plot that encompassed most of the East Bay Region of California.
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Selling government land grants
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they lost most of their land
they lost most of their land
Selling government land grants
they received: Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, some of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming.
they lost most of their land
Most if not all the generous land grants provided by the US government to the railroad industry were loans not gifts. By 1898, the US government was repaid $63 million in principal and $104 million in interest.