Juan Maria Jorge Hernandez (born 1776) married Maria Francisca Lorenzana (1782–1852) in 1800, and received the two square league Rancho Ojo de Agua de la Coche in 1835. In 1846,
Martin Murphy Sr. purchased the Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche. Martin Murphy Sr. had brought his family to California with the
Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844. Son
Martin Murphy Jr. was the founder of the city of
Sunnyvale. Murphy's sons,
John and Daniel, struck gold in the Sierras, then made a fortune selling dry goods to local miners and Native Americans. The town they established in the Sierra foothills still bears the family name —
Murphys. In 1851,
Daniel Martin Murphy married Maria Fisher, of the neighboring
Rancho Laguna Seca. Martin Murphy Sr. died in 1865. 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 Ojo del Agua de la Coche was filed with the
Public Land Commission in 1853, and the grant was
patented to Murphy Sr.'s son, Bernard Murphy in 1860. Bernard Murphy was killed in the explosion of the steamboat "Jenny Lind" en route from Alviso to San Francisco on April 11, 1853. In 1854, Daniel Murphy took over operation of Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche. When Daniel Murphy died in 1882, his daughter Diana and son Daniel Jr. inherited his land grants. Diana Murphy, who inherited of the ranch, married Hiram Morgan Hill in 1882. In 1892, Diana Murphy, sold her portion of Rancho Ojo de Agua de la Coche to real estate developer
Chauncey Hatch Phillips. ==References==