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Spanish rule encouraged the settlement of California's territory by the establishment of large land grants known as ranchos. From these ranchos, the English word "ranch" was derived. The Roman Catholic Church received land grants, which enabled it to establish numerous missions in the region. The El Cajon Valley was discovered by mission padres in the 19th century as they searched for pasture land. The foothills surrounding the valley served as a buffer for straying cattle, and a watershed to collect the few drops of rain. The mission's cattle herds and native Indian converts were supported by the El Cajon pasture lands for many years.
Individuals were not granted titles to land plots until the Mexican era. The 1834 secularization legislation had the original intention of dividing church property among former mission Indians. The majority of grants were made to wealthy "Californios", who are of Spanish descent and had long been jealous of the huge holdings of Roman Catholic missions. California Governor Pio Pico took the Mission San Diego de Alcala lands in 1845. Dona Maria Antonio Estudillo was the daughter of Jose Antonio Estudillo who was alcalde de San Diego. He gave El Cajon Valley eleven square leagues to Estudillo to repay $500 in government debt. Rancho Santa Monica was the original name of the grant. It covered present-day El Cajon, Bostonia, and Santee as well as Lakeside, Flinn Spring and the eastern portion of La Mesa. It also included the Rancho Canada de Los Coches grant of 28 acres. Maria Estudillo, Don Miguel Pedrorena's wife, was a native Spaniard from Madrid who came to California in 1838 to start a trading company.
