Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas was a 22,283-acre (90.18 km2)Mexican land grant in present-daySanta Clara County, California given in 1834 by GovernorJosé Figueroa to Carlos Antonio Castro.[1] The grant extended alongLlagas Creek from about one mile south of present-dayMorgan Hill to about one mile north ofGilroy, and included present-daySan Martin.[2][3][4]
Carlos Antonio Castro (b.1775) was the son of Joaquin Ysidro de Castro and Maria Marina Botiller, who had come to California from Mexico with theDe Anza Expedition in 1775. Carlos' brother,José Mariano Castro (1765–1828) was the grantee ofRancho Las Animas; his brotherJosé Joaquín Castro (1768–1838) was the grantee ofRancho San Andrés; and his brotherFrancisco María Castro (1770 - 1831) was the grantee ofRancho San Pablo. Carlos Antonio Castro married María de Rosario García (b. 1779) in 1805. Their sonGuillermo Castro was the grantee ofRancho San Lorenzo. In 1812, Carlos Castro was mayor domo ofMission Santa Cruz, and received the six square league Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas grant in 1834.
In 1848, the heirs of Carlos Castro sold Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas toMartin Murphy Sr.'s sons Daniel and Bernard. Martin Murphy had brought his family to California with theStephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844. Martin Murphy Sr. purchasedRancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche to the north of Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas in 1846.
With thecession of California to the United States following theMexican-American War, the 1848Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas was filed with thePublic Land Commission in 1852,[5][6] and the grant waspatented to Daniel and Bernard Murphy (later joined by James and Martin J. C. Murphy) in 1868.[7]
In 1851,Daniel Martin Murphy married Mary Fisher, daughter of neighbor William Fisher, owner ofRancho Laguna Seca. When Daniel Murphy died in 1882, his daughter Diana and son Daniel Jr. inherited the land grant. Daniel Murphy Jr. sold his land on Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas in 1892 to real estate developerChauncey Hatch Phillips.
Bernard Murphy purchasedRancho La Polka on the east boundary of Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas andRancho Las Uvas on the western boundary of Rancho Ojo de Agua de la Coche. Bernard Murphy married Catherine O’Toole (b. 1828). Bernard Murphy was killed in the explosion of the steamboat "Jenny Lind" en route from Alviso to San Francisco on April 11, 1853, and his wife Catherine inherited the land. In 1862, Catherine O’Toole Murphy married James Dunne ofRancho Bolsa de San Felipe who died in 1874.[8] In 1893, a portion of Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas, also known as the Dunne Ranch, owned by Catherine Murphy Dunne, was subdivided and the settlement of Rucker was created. Catherine's daughter, Mary Phileta Dunne, married Joseph H. Rucker.
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