Rancho San Lorenzo was a 22,264-acre (90.10 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Francisco Rico.
Flores dispatched Rico to retake San Diego, but he was recalled back to Los Angeles.
The droughts of 1863 and 1864 resulted in heavy losses of stock, which finally proved a financial calamity to him.
[3] Andrew Randall (1819–1856), a native of Rhode Island, came to California in 1849 as the newly appointed customs inspector for Monterey.
Joseph Hetherington a creditor undertook to force payment by hounding him on every occasion with insults and threats.
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.