"Come, my sons, I would show you your inheritance. In such a manner Don Luis Peralta of Mexico, might have gathered his four sons and journeyed to the high points of Oakland and Berkeley hills, from which could be seen the vast stretches of Rancho San Antonio.
"To you, Ignacio, my oldest son, shall fall the southern plain from El Arroyo de San Leandro (river/creek) to this point, where tradition says that El Capitan Fages and Padre Crespi made camp 70 years ago.
Antonio, yours shall be the fertile land from here to El Arroya de San Antonio and down to the estuary (Oakland).
Vincente shall have the temescal the wooded peninsula, and all the land to the line bearing from the island of the Pelicans (Alcatraz) to the arroyo yonder and....
To you, Domingo, shall own all from that line to the little bald hill called San Antonio (El Cerrito)".
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| Original Plat Map of San Antonio Land Grant |
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| Don Luis Maria Peralta |
Don Luis Peralta has seen in his lifetime his native Mexico throw off the rule of Spain and has seen the American conquest, the Gold Rush, and the Pueblo de San Jose, of which he became the Comisionado, the capitol of the new state of California.
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| Ignacio Peralta Home 1860 561 Lafayette St, SL |
This house was the home of Ignacio Peralta 1860 now known as Alta Mira Club on Lafayette Ave, San Leandro. The Peralta name has been preserved in many ways in the East Bay. Peralta College and the Peralta Hospital in Oakland (now Alta Bates), Peralta Blvd in San Leandro and Casa Peralta at 346 Ward Street (W.Estudillo and Clarke).
Source: Garden Grows in Eden 1972
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| Luis Maria Peralta Adobe 1767 #joyinrealestate |
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