Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano

Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano was a 8,896-acre (36.00 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1824 by Governor Luís Antonio Argüello to Ygnacio Ferrer Vallejo, and confirmed to his eldest son, José de Jesús Vallejo, by Governor José Figueroa in 1834. The name means "pocket of St. Cayetano". Pocket usually refers to land surrounded by slough - in this case the Elkhorn Slough. The grant was bordered on the west by Monterey Bay and on the north by the Pajaro River, and is just south of present day Watsonville.
History
Ygnacio Vicente Ferrer Vallejo (1740–1832), a sergeant in the Spanish Army of New Spain, came to Alta California in 1774 with Fernando Rivera y Moncada. He married Maria Antonia Lugo, daughter of Francisco Salvador Lugo in 1790. Among their thirteen children, the most distinguished was Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Ygnacio Vallejo received the two square league Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano grant in 1824...