The rancho headquarters of each were close to the entrance to the pass through the Gabilan Range to San Juan Bautista.
In 1835 he was commissioned to secularize Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, and was the grantee of the two square league Rancho Los Vergeles.
[3] José Eusebio Boronda, grantee of Rancho Rincon de Sanjon, served as Mayordomo.
[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.
[8] Maria Josefa Soto de Stokes died in Monterey in 1855 leaving as her heirs, her husband and children.