Rancho El Toro

[1] The grant extended along Toro Creek south of Hill Town on the Salinas River.

He received the one and a half square league Rancho El Toro in 1835.

[4] Charles Wolter was a German captain of a Mexican vessel, and settled in Monterey in 1833.

[5] 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.

[8] After the death of Charles Wolter, his widow sold Rancho El Toro to David Jacks in 1880.