Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes (original) (raw)

Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes was a 35,508-acre (143.70 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Sacramento County and San Joaquin County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Anastasio Chaboya. Sanjon is Spanish for ditch or deep slough. The grant stretched from the Cosumnes River on the north to the Mokelumne River on the south, and encompassed present-day Galt.