Rancho La Natividad was a Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Manuel Butrón and his son-in-law, Nicolás Alviso. Rancho La Natividad and Rancho Los Vergeles were adjoining ranchos along Gabilan Creek north of present-day Salinas. The headquarters of each rancho were close to the entrance to the pass through the Gabilan Range to San Juan Bautista. The Rancho La Natividad grant encompassed present-day Natividad.
History
Manuel Butrón and Nicolás Alviso received the two square league Rancho La Natividad in 1837. Butrón had been occupying the land for a long time before the date of the grant. Manuel Josef Butrón, born in , was the son of Manuel Butrón, and Margarita Maria --Manuel Butron was buried in the floor of the chapel of Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Carmelo, Monterey County, Alta California, New Spain , a Spanish soldier who came to California in 1769, and later received the first California land grant in 1775. Manuel Josef Butrón married María Ygnacia Rita Higuera married on January 30, 1794 at Mission Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, Alta California, New Spain. Their daughter Maria Isabel Butron married Angel Maria Dolores Castro on December 12, 1812. Their daughter Rosa Maria Josefa Buitron married Vicente Canet of Rancho San Bernardo on October 14, 1828. Their daughter Maria Ramona Sixta Butrón married Jerimiah McMahon on March 10, 1848. Their daughter Bárbara Gertrudis Butrón married Nicolás Alviso on February 12-1813. Nicolás Alviso, the son of Francisco Javier Alviso, served as majordomo at Mission Soledad. Their daughter Maria Ygnacia Vicenta Butron married Jose Quintin Ortega on November 9, 1817. Their daughter Maria Juana Lorenza Butron married Joaquin Soto on May 10, 1818. Their son Juan de Dios Butron married Ramona Gonzales on January 11, 1832 at the San Juan Baptista Mission. Their son Felipe de Jesus Casmiro Butron married Casmira German on February 2, 1835. Their son Manuel Salustriano Butron married Maria Antonia Buelna on October 27, 1845. Their daughter Antonia Francisca Emigdia Butron married William Robert Garner on November 25, 1831. William Robert Garner ran a Redwood lumber mill distributing redwood lumber for building the missions and the other buildings of the area and time. 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 La Natividad was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853, and the grant was patented to Maria Ramona Butrón and Jerimah McMahon in 1874.
