[1] The grant extended south from Glenn and Rancho Jacinto along both banks of the Sacramento River, and encompassed present-day Butte City, Princeton and Codora.
[2] [3] Thomas O. Larkin (1802 –1858), consul of the United States at Monterey, was unwilling to become a Mexican citizen, and thus could not obtain a direct land grant.
His brother, Isaac Williams, owned Rancho Santa Ana del Chino.
[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.
[9] Senator John Boggs (1829–1899), born in Missouri, came to Colusa County in 1854 and bought 6,000 acres (24 km2) of Rancho Larkin’s Children.