Rancho Bolsa de Las Escorpinas (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rancho Bolsa de las Escorpinas was a 6,416-acre (25.96 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Salvador Espinoza . The grant was northwest of present day Salinas, bounded on the south by Espinosa Lake and Rancho Los Gatos or Santa Rita of his brother Trinidad Espinosa. Salvador Maria Espinoza (1796-) married Maria Josefa Lugarda Castro (1796-1848) in 1814. Espinosa served in a number of public offices in Monterey including ]alcade and regidor. He was administrator at Mission Soledad in 1836-1839. He received the two square league Rancho Bolsa de las Escorpinas in 1837. His son, Jose Carlos Cayetano Espinosa, was the grantee of Rancho Posa de los Ositos.