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- After the decree of secularization in 1832, when the mission lands and cattle were confiscated, General Jose Castro obtained San Justo Rancho from the Mexican Government.
- Francisco P. Pacheco bought the rancho from Castro for the Sum of $1,400.00. In October 1855 Pacheco sold the Rancho to Flint, Bixby and Co., for $25,000.00. Flint Bixby and Co., in turn sold about 21,000 acres to Colonel Hollister. (By this time the Rancho had grown to about 35,000 acres).
- Brief History of San Benito County - In 1839, the Rancho San Justo, a 34,620 acre Mexican land grant, was given to Jose Castro by Governor Juan B. Alvarado. Jose Castro then sold Rancho San Justo to Don Francisco Perez Pacheco for $1400 in 1850, the same year California became a state. In 1853, two sheep drives started for California from the East. See also William Welles Hollister.
