Rancho Cañada de los Coches was a 28 acre (0.11331208 km²) Mexican land grant

Ranchos of California

The Spanish, and later the Méxican government encouraged settlement of territory now known as California by the establishment of large land grants called ranchos, from which the English ranch is derived. Devoted to raising cattle and sheep, the owners of the ranchos attempted to pattern themselves...

 in present day San Diego County, California

San Diego County, California

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 given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena

Manuel Micheltorena

Manuel Micheltorena was a Brigadier General of the Mexican Army, Adjutant-General of the same, Governor, Commandant-General and Inspector of the Department of the California...

 to Apolinaria Lorenzana. This small land grant was located just west of Flinn Springs and in the center of Rancho El Cajon

Rancho El Cajon

Rancho El Cajon was a Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pio Pico to María Antonia Estudillo de Pedrorena. The name means "the box" in Spanish, and refers to the valley between hills. The grant encompassed present day El Cajon, Bostonia,...

. The San Diego Mission

Mission San Diego de Alcalá

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá, in San Diego, California, was the first Franciscan mission in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It was founded in 1769 by Spanish friar Junípero Serra in an area long inhabited by the Kumeyaay Indians...

 fathers formerly watered their swine in dry seasons at a little spring arising from subterranean sources, thus giving it its name of "Glen of the Hogs".

History

Apolinaria Lorenzana (1790–1884) came to California with her mother in 1800. When her mother returned to Mexico

Mexico

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, Apolinaria moved to San Diego, under the care of Raymundo Carrillo. Apolinaria Lorenzana remained a single woman devoted to the church. As a result of her religious devotion, she was called "La Beata", meaning "the pious one". She was also grantee of Rancho Jamacha

Rancho Jamacha

Rancho Jamacha was a Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Apolinaria Lorenzana. Jamacha is an Indian name. The grant extended eastward from Rancho de la Nación along the Sweetwater River Valley...

. Lorenzana continued to live at the San Diego Mission. Following a further decline in the Mission, Lorenzana moved to San Juan Capistrano

San Juan Capistrano, California

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 in 1846.

Lorenzana sold her Rancho Canada de los Coches to Anacleto Lestrade, a native of France

France

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, and a priest at the San Gabriel Mission

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. The settlement was founded by Spaniards of the Franciscan order on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become 21 Spanish...

 1851 -56. Lestrade was also the claimant for Rancho Rosa Castilla

Rancho Rosa Castilla

Rancho Rosa Castilla was a Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County, California given to Juan Ballesteros in 1831 by Governor Manuel Victoria. The land grant failed to receive confirmation from the Public Land Commission...

.

With the cession

Mexican Cession

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 of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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 provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim was filed with the Public Land Commission

Public Land Commission

The Public Land Commission, a former agency of the United States government, was created following the admission of California as a state in 1850 . The Commission's purpose was to determine the validity of prior Spanish and Mexican land grants in California.California Senator William M...

 in 1852, and the grant was patented

Land patent

A land patent is a land grant made patent by the sovereign lord over the land in question. To make a such a grant “patent”, such a sovereign lord must document the land grant, securely sign and seal the document and openly publish the same to the public for all to see...

to Anacleto Lestrada in 1873.