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    two square leagues (Olivera the Moro half and Felix the Cayucos half) in 1842. In 1845, they sold Rancho Morro y Cayucos to James McKinley, a Scottish sailor...
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    rich kelp beds just north of the current Cayucos pier. The town took its name from the old Rancho Moro y Cayucos, a Mexican land grant awarded in 1842 that...
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    of Cayucos. Villa Creek, which retains the Villavicencio name, runs through the center of the grant. Rancho Geronimo adjoined Rancho Moro y Cayucos, down...
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  • Obispo, and opened a bank. In 1875, he purchased Rancho Moro y Cayucos, and laid out the town of Cayucos. In 1878, he retired from the bank, to devote his...
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  • married in 1848 James McKinley, who was the patentee of Rancho San Lucas and Rancho Moro y Cayucos; Maria Santa Epitacia (1826–1887); Maria Bernardina Celedonia...
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  • José Amesti, who was the grantee of Rancho Los Corralitos. McKinley was also the patentee of Rancho Moro y Cayucos. With the cession of California to the...
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    Hubert, San Francisco. Rancho Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islay grant included two earlier grants Cañada de los Osos and Pecho y Islay subsequently purchased...
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    Rogers Cooper traded Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo in the northern Salinas Valley with Juan Bautista Alvarado for the Rancho El Sur where the state...
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    his rancho to James Scott and John Wilson who also bought the adjacent Rancho Pecho y Islay in the Irish Hills to the south of their Los Osos rancho and...
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    provisional title to the more than 30,000 acres called Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica. The rancho included the eastern portion of the City of Santa Monica...
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