Rancho San Justo

José Castro was granted Rancho San Justo in 1839.
Don Francisco Pérez Pacheco purchased Rancho San Justo in 1850.

Rancho San Justo was a 34,620-acre (140.1 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Benito County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José Antonio Castro.[1] The lands of the rancho include current day Hollister.[2]

  1. ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  2. ^ "Plat of the "Rancho San Justo" [Calif.] : finally confirmed to Francisco Perez Pacheco / surveyed under instructions from the U.S. Surveyor General by J.E. Terrell, Depy. Sur., July 1859".