Antonio M. Osio (1800–1878) was also the grantee of the eleven square league Rancho Punta de los Reyes Sobrante given by Governor Micheltorena in 1843.
Osio's son Salvador settled on the six square league Rancho Aguas Frias.
Andrew Randall (1819–1856), a native of Rhode Island, came to California in 1849 as the newly appointed customs inspector for Monterey.
Joseph Hetherington, a creditor, undertook to force payment by hounding him on every occasion with insults and threats.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored.