Micheltorena granted eleven square leagues (the maximum allowable under Mexican law) to Jimeno. Manual Jimeno Casarin served as secretary of state under Governor
Alvarado and Governor Micheltorena, was a senior member of the State Assembly, and occasionally acting governor. He was married to
María de las Angustias, the daughter of
José de la Guerra y Noriega. Jimeno, who lived in
Monterey, also owned
Rancho Salsipuedes in
Santa Cruz County and
Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy in
Ventura County. Unlike many land grants holders, Jimeno was not required to show any use or development of the land and apparently he did not use the land, either for agriculture or ranching. He died in 1853 during a visit to
Mexico.
Thomas O. Larkin (1802 - 1858), consul of the United States at
Monterey, was not a Mexican citizen, and could not obtain a direct land grant. But in 1847, with California in the possession of
General Kearney, Larkin, in association with John S. Missroon, a naval lieutenant, bought Manuel Jimeno's eleven-league grant. 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. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Jimeno was filed with the
Public Land Commission in 1852, confirmed by the
US Supreme Court in 1855, and the grant was
patented to Thomas O. Larkin and John S. Missroon in 1862. However, the final survey of Rancho Jimeno included the
Rancho Colus grant, resulting in much litigation regarding ownership of the land. ==References==