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Rancho Soquel (also called Rancho Shoquel) was a Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Cruz County, California given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to Martina Castro. In 1844, Martina Castro was granted by Governor José Figueroa a further grant known as the Soquel Augmentation.〔Ogden Hoffman, 1862, ''Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California'', Numa Hubert, San Francisco〕 The grant along Monterey Bay includes present-day Soquel and Capitola.〔(Diseño del Rancho Soquel )〕 Rancho Aptos of her brother Rafael Castro formed the south boundary of the grant. ==History== Martina Castro (1807–1890), was born in Villa de Branciforte, daughter of José Joaquín Castro (1768–1838), grantee of Rancho San Andrés. Martina married Simon Cota, a soldier stationed at Monterey, in 1824. When Simon died six years later, in 1830, Martina became a widow with four children. Martina married Irishman Michael Lodge (1797–1849) in 1831, and she was granted the half square league Rancho Soquel in 1833. With Lodge's encouragement, the grant was enlarged in 1844 by of mostly heavily forested land. Lodge recognized the potential and contracted John Hames and John Daubenbiss to build a sawmill. In 1848, Michael Lodge and Martina joined the California Gold Rush. Martina returned after three of her children died, but Lodge never returned and was presumed murdered. In 1849, Martina, at 42, married Louis Depeaux, a man 16 years younger than she was. Soon afterward, Depeaux left.〔Carolyn Swift, ''Stones to the Four Winds: The Sorrow of Martina Castro Lodge'', Santa Cruz County History Journal, Issue Number Three, Special Bicentennial Edition, 1997〕 A daughter, Carmelita (Carmel) Castro Lodge (1827–1923) married Thomas Fallon in 1849. 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 was filed for the Soquel grant with the Public Land Commission in 1852,〔(United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 295 ND )〕 and the grant was patented to Martina Castro in 1860.〔( Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 )〕 A claim for the Soquel Augmentation grant was filed with the Land Commission in 1853,〔(United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 343 ND )〕 and the grant was patented to Martina Castro in 1860.〔( Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 )〕 In Depeaux's absence, Martina gave each of her remaining eight children an undivided one-ninth of the Rancho Soquel grant.〔''Peck vs Vandenberg'', Reports of cases determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, 1866, Volume 30, pp 11-64, Bancroft-Whitney Company〕 In 1856, with the onset of mental instability, Martina sold her remaining land and spent her last years with her daughter Guadalupe in Capitola until her death in 1890. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rancho Soquel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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