Rancho Huerta de Cuati was a 127-acre (0.51 km2) Mexican land grant in the San Rafael Hills area of present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1838 by governor Juan Alvarado to Victoria Reid.
[2] When Mexico ceded California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that its historic land grants would be honored.
Reid filed a claim for Rancho Huerta de Cuati with the Public Land Commission in 1852.
The American court appointed a conservator, Benjamin Davis Wilson, purportedly to protect the widow Victoria Reid, as an indigenous woman was not believed to be competent.
Later, Wilson deeded the main portion of the rancho to his son-in-law, James de Barth Shorb.