[1] The grant was bounded by the San Lorenzo River on the west and Rancho Carbonera on the south, and encompassed present-day Scotts Valley.
In 1822, Bolcoff settled in Branciforte and married María Candida Castro, grantee of Rancho Refugio.
Joseph Ladd Majors (1806–1868), a trapper from Tennessee, came to California over the Santa Fe Trail with Isaac Graham in 1834.
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.
He left to try his luck as a miner during the California Gold Rush, and stayed to open a hotel in Stockton in 1850.