Rancho Las Uvas

Rancho Las Uvas was a 11,080-acre (44.8 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Lorenzo Pinedo (often spelt Pineda).

[2][3] Lorenzo Pinedo, arrived in California from Ecuador, the sole survivor of a shipwreck off the coast at Monterey.

Martin Murphy purchased Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche.

Bernard Murphy was killed in the explosion of the steamboat "Jenny Lind" en route from Alviso to San Francisco on April 11, 1853.

[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.