Rancho Pecho y Islay
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- Diagrama de una medida del Rancho de Pecho ý Islai : [Calif. / Gaspar O'Farrell, agrimensor]
- The "Expanation" [map of Rancho Pecho y Islai] may be translated as follows:
- A. Canada and Arroyo of Pecho, boundary with the land of Don Miguel Avila. [Pecho Creek];
- B. Canada of the Thieves;
- C. Pasture and Arroyo of the same;
- D. Islai Creek and spring;
- E. Beach;
- F. Summit of the mountains, boundary with the land of Don Victor Linares."
- Per an article sent to me from Dorothy Oksner, Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society regarding RANCHO PECHO Y ISLAI [Map #49, San Luis Obispo], owned by Francisco Badillo: "In 1825, there arrived in California, as one of a group of convicts dispatched there from Mexico during the year, on Francisco Vadillo, or Badillo. Apparently, once here, he behaved himself; he married, and in 1843 petitioned for a tract of land formerly used by Mission San Luis Obispo, known as Pecho y Islai, citing eighteen years' residence in California. Badillo submitted diseno with his petition, which was approved in April of 1843. In October following, Justice of the Peace Mariano Bonilla administered the juridical possession and measurment for Badillo, reporting, "they began to measure from the Arroyo del Pecho along the coast northwest in the Arroyo of Islai, both its banks being included, distant one hundred and seventy-five cordeles of one hundred varas each. In said point was fixed, designating the boundary in that direction, thence measuring easterly up the Arroyo of Islai to the end of the Canada of the same name at the Sierra twenty cordeles and said place was marked; thence along the ridge of the Sierra, southeast one hundred and eighty-three cordeles to the source of the Arroyo del Pecho, marking this point with a cross as boundary with Don Miguel Avila; thence measuring westerly down the Canada and Arroyo of the Pecho, twenty-nine cordeles, to the point of beginning....." Three months later, Badillo sold the rancho to a partnership of James Scott and John Wilson, who also purchased the adjoining Rancho Canada de los Osos, and in 1845, the combined property was re-granted to Scott and Wilson, to whom it was subsequently confirmed. The surveyed Rancho Pecho y Islai extended down the coast from Point Buchon nearly to Point San Luis. The Montana de Oro State Park now occupies approximately the northern one-fifth of the tract. The "Expanation" [map of Rancho Pecho y Islai] may be translated as follows: A. Canada and Arroyo of Pecho, boundary with the land of Don Miguel Avila. [Pecho Creek]; B. Canada of the Thieves; C. Pasture and Arroyo of the same; D. Islai Creek and spring; E. Beach; F. Summit of the mountains, boundary with the land of Don Victor Linares."
“Rancho Pecho Y Islay was 8,880 acre portion of a larger Mexican Land Grant conveyed to Francisco Padilla in 1843.
“It was sold to Captain John Wilson and patented in 1869. Originally it included the coastal terrace and adjacent hills generally from just north of Islay Creek to Pecho Creek near Port San Luis.
“The ranch was passed to his granddaughter Ramona Hillard in 1872. In 1892 she sold 3,660 acres from ‘Devils Creek Canyon to Pecho Creek’ to Luigi Marre who owned the neighboring Rancho San Miguelito to the south. Part of the deal included a right of way along a wagon trail to Port Harford (today’s Port San Luis) which was an important shipping point for crops and supplies. She then leased the remainder of the ranch to the Spooner and Hazzard families. Spooners and Hazzards were not always best of friends with right of ways occasionally contested.
“Around the turn of the 19th century, Hillard borrowed money using the remaining 5,200 acre ranch as collateral. When the loan came due in 1902, Henry Cowell took ownership of the ranch and then sold Rancho Pecho to Alden Spooner Jr. in 1902." [1]; Francisco Felipe Badillo Sr.