Domingo Peralta c1860

Description:
Domingo Peralta (1795-1865), one of four surviving sons of Luís María Peralta, inherited the portion of his father's 1820 Spanish land grant that extended roughly from the Oakland-Berkeley border north to Cerrito Creek, and from the crest of the Berkeley hills to the San Francisco Bay shoreline.

Date of Document:
circa 1860

Document Author:
Unknown

Geographic Location:
5527 Vicente Street, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
For his years of military service in Alta California, Luis Maria Peralta in 1820 received from the Spanish crown a land grant of nearly 45,000 acres in Contra Costa the east side of the bay. His Rancho de San Antonio encompassed the present-day cities of Oakland, Alameda, Piedmont, Emeryville, Berkeley and Albany. The next year, Antonio Peralta, one of Luis Peralta s sons, erected an adobe in what is today Oakland s Fruitvale district and began to graze cattle on the rancho. In 1834, Jose Vicente Peralta (1801-1871), Luis Maria Peralta s youngest son, and Domingo Peralta, joined their brother on the rancho. In 1836, Vicente became the first person of European descent to reside in what is now North Oakland when he built a modest adobe near Temescal Creek on what is today the block bounded by Vicente Street, 55th Street, Telegraph Avenue and Highway 24. In about 1841 Domingo Peralta built an adobe on Cordornices Creek, near Albina Avenue and Hopkins Court in present-day Berkeley.