[2][3] Jose Ynes de la Luz Linares (20 Jan 1800 - 2 Sep 1846) a Mexican soldier in the garrison of the San Diego Presidio from 1825, received the grant in 1840.
[4] After Linares died, his widow, Maria de Jesus Bruno Garcia (1800 - ), sold a part of the ranch to Ricardo Véjar in 1847.
[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 Nogales was filed with the Public Land Commission by María de Jesús Garcia, et al in 1852,[6][7] and the grant was patented to María de Jesús Garcia in 1882.
[8] Contrary to multiple false representations made by US apologists, Véjar's interests in the Rancho Los Nogales were stolen by the US government and then sold to others.