Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando

[6] Lieutenant Del Valle was the descendant of a wealthy Jalisco family who had served under the Spanish army in colonial Alta California.

[7] As comisionado, Lieutenant Del Valle took charge of the mission estate by inventory from the stationed missionary, Fray Francisco González de Ibarra, who delivered $20,000 in hides, tallow, and other products, and $5,000 in coins.

[15] Another mayordomo, Pedro López, and his brother Francisco made a successful request to claim Rancho Tujunga, east of the mission lands, some time between late 1840 and early 1841.

In 1843, Samuel, a Tataviam man, petitioned for and was granted a 1,000 vara tract of land northwest of the mission complex.

A partnership of three Tongva men, Tiburcio Cayo, Román, and Francisco Papabubaba, were granted Rancho Los Encinos.

José Miguel Triunfo was granted a quarter square league parcel called Rancho Cahuenga, southeast of the mission, in May 1843.

In 1845, another partnership of three Fernandeños, Urbano Chari, José Odón, and Manuel, were granted Rancho El Escorpión, a little over a half square league in the west of the mission lands.

[17] The parcels belonging to the Fernandeños Samuel and Pedro Joaquín were aggregated into the Rancho Ex-Mission de San Fernando.

[20] 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.

[27] In 1874, the heirs of Eulogio de Celis sold their northern half of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando to northern Californians, California State Senator Charles Maclay and his partners George K. Porter, a San Francisco shoe manufacturer, and his cousin Benjamin F. Porter.