The grant extended along the Pacific coast from Estero de San Antonio south to Walker Creek, and encompassed present day Tomales.
Padilla was involved in a dispute with José de la Cruz Sánchez and his brother Francisco Sanchez, over the position.
In 1848, after he returned from Los Angeles, Padilla, who long had been blamed for the murders in Santa Rosa, was attacked by a group of former Bear Flaggers in a Sonoma hotel.
[6] 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.
The US Supreme Court found "the production of a fraudulent and false certificate of approval signed by the governor and secretary who signed the grant and proved by the same witnesses in the same way that the grant was proved, affords (in the absence of explanatory evidence,) strong ground for believing all the title papers to be fabricated", and the claim was rejected.