Rancho Punta de Pinos

[2][3] José María Armenta, was born in Mexico in 1761 and was granted the half square league Rancho Punta de Piños in 1833.

José Abrego was administrator of Mission San Antonio in 1833 and 1834, customs officer, member of the Assembly.

In 1841 under somewhat mysterious circumstances his wife Maria Josefa Abrego bought Rancho San Jose y Sur Chiquito.

José Abrego sold Rancho Punta de Piños to Thomas O Larkin and three other associates (Jacob P. Leese, Milton Little, and James H. Gleason) in 1850.

[4] 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.