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Rancho ZanjonesRancho Zanjones was a 6,714-acre (27.17 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1839 by Governor pro tem Manuel Jimeno to Gabriel de la Torre.[1] The grant extended along the north bank of the Salinas River east of present day Chualar.[2] HistoryGabriel de la Torre, the Mexican government's chief administrator of Monterey, was granted the one and one half square league Rancho Zanjones in 1839. Juan Malarín acquired Rancho Zanjones.[3] Juan Malarín (1792–1849), a sea captain from Peru, came to California in 1822, and was made a Lieutenant in the Mexican Navy. He made Monterey his home, and in 1824 he married Maria Josefa Joaquina Estrada, a daughter of José Mariano Estrada, grantee of Rancho Buena Vista. Malarín was grantee of the two square league Rancho Guadalupe y Llanitos de los Correos in 1833, and the two square league Rancho Chualar in 1839. When Malarín died in 1849, his son, Mariano Malarín, took charge of the family estate.[4] In 1859, Mariano Malarín (1827–1895) married Ysidora Pacheco (-1892), a daughter of Francisco Pacheco, owner of Rancho Ausaymas y San Felipe.[5] 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 Zanjones was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[6][7] and the grant was patented to Mariano Malarín in 1866.[8] David Jacks later owned an interest in the rancho and Rancho Chualar.[9] See alsoReferences
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