Rancho Pleyto

Rancho Pleyto (also called Pleito) was a 13,299-acre (53.82 km2) Mexican land grant in the Santa Lucia Range, in present-day southern Monterey County, California.

It was granted in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Antonio Chaves (Chávez).

[1] The grant extended along the San Antonio River southeast of present-day Jolon.

He was tax collector at Monterey in 1843, and one of the prime movers in the movement against Manuel Micheltorena 1844.

[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.