Rancho San Leandro (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rancho San Leandro was a 6,830-acre (27.6 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Alameda County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Jose Joaquin Estudillo. The grant extended along the east San Francisco Bay from San Leandro Creek south to San Lorenzo Creek, and encompassed present day San Leandro. Jose Joaquin Estudillo (1800 - 1852), son of Spanish soldier Jose Maria Estudillo and brother of Jose Antonio Estudillo, was born at the Presidio of Monterey and joined the Spanish Army at the age of 15. In 1823, Estudillo married Juana del Carmen Martinez (daughter of Ygnacio Martinez, grantee of Rancho El Pinole). In 1835, Estudillo was the commissioner for the secularization of Mission San Francisco de Asis. In 1835, he was elected alcalde of Yerba Buena. After his one-year term, Estudillo, his wife, and ten children moved across the San Francisco Bay, settling on San Leandro Creek just south of the Peraltas' Rancho San Antonio.