Ortega

It appears from the expediente on file in the archives that Quintín Ortega, in the year 1833, petitioned Governor Figueroa for a title to a tract of land granted to his father, Ignacio Ortega, by Don Joaquin Arrillaga, in 1809. The governor made the usual reference for information, and by the reports made to him it appeared that for more than twenty years, and in fact from 1809 until his decease in 1829 or 1S30, the land had belonged to and been in possession of Ignacio Ortega, and that since that time his son and two daughters had continued to occupy it. On the third of June, 1833, the governor made his concession, granting to Quintín Ortega and his sisters, Maria Clara Ortega and Maria Isabel Ortega, the rancho called San Ysidro, bounded by the Mission of San Juan Bautis-ta, by the ranchos of Animas and Las Llagas, and by the mountains—“the land being conceded in equal parts and subject to the stipulated conditions.” These conditions, it is evident from the subsequent proceedings, related to the division of the land among the grantees, for the governor appears to have issued three documentos or titles, each granting a third part of the land included within the boundaries…