Early Sonoma County, California, Land Grants:1846-1850

Early Sonoma County, California Land Grants: 1846-1850 Sonoma was the first town to be planned and settled during the pre-statehood era in the territory north of San Francisco under Mexican rule. In 1835 General Mariano Vallejo was ordered by the Mexican government to lay out the town following accepted principles for building cities in New Spain. Land grants made between 1846 and 1850 still exist and are in the custody of the Sonoma County Recorder. Some of these early grants were written in Spanish and have not yet been transcribed and abstracted. This book is an alphabetical listing of the Grants Books A and B and Volume 2-A, covering the time period of November 1847 to February 1850.