The rancho lands include the present-day cities of Cerritos, La Mirada, Artesia, Stanton, and Buena Park.
[3] In 1840, Juan José Nieto sold Rancho Los Coyotes to Juan Bautista Leandry, an Italian immigrant who settled in California in 1827 and was married to Maria Francisca Uribe,[4] who renamed it "La Buena Esperanza," – The Good Hope – but it was still generally known as Los Coyotes.
Leandry died in 1842, and his widow, Maria Francisca Uribe, married Francisco O'Campo.
[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.
As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Los Coyotes was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[6][7] and the grant was patented to Andrés Pico and Francisca Uribe de O'Campo in 1875.