Editing Mora County, New Mexico (section)

===Mexican period, and permanent settlement===
The creation of the [[Mora Land Grant]] by the Mexican government of New Mexico in 1835 began the legal and extensive settlement of the county.<ref name="Pearce" /> The settlers came primarily from [[Las Trampas, New Mexico|Las Trampas]], but also from [[Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico|Picuris]] and [[Embudo, New Mexico|Embudo]],<ref name="Noble">{{cite book |last=Noble |first=David Grant |date=1994 |chapter=Mora |title=Pueblos, Villages, Forts & Trails: A Guide to New Mexico's Past |url=https://archive.org/details/pueblosvillagesf0000nobl |url-access=registration |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |location=Albuquerque |pages=[https://archive.org/details/pueblosvillagesf0000nobl/page/175 175]–179 |isbn=0-8263-1514-3}}</ref> then from [[Santa Cruz, New Mexico|Santa Cruz de La Cañada]], [[Taos, New Mexico|Taos]], and the [[Ojo Caliente, New Mexico|Ojo Caliente]] area, and later still from the southern part of New Mexico, moving on from the [[San Miguel del Vado Land Grant]], and also coming in via [[Las Vegas, New Mexico]].<ref name="NMGS" /> The families each received a strip of property by a September 28, 1835, [[Spanish land grants in New Mexico|land grant]] of [[Centralist Republic of Mexico]] Governor of New Mexico [[Albino Pérez]].<ref name="Pearce" /> The grant gave land title for over 800,000 acres (1,250 square miles; around 323,800 hectares, or 3,200&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) in Mora Valley<ref name="WPA">{{cite book |author=Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New Mexico |author-link=Work Projects Administration |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=goxoBAmtZIkC&q=New+Mexico:+A+Guide+to+the+Colorful+State |title=New Mexico, a Guide to the Colorful State |location=Albuquerque |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |date=1945 |page=378 |isbn=978-1-62376-030-4 |access-date=October 19, 2014}}</ref> to various families willing to relocate; estimates vary from 25<ref name="WPA" /> to 76<ref name="Pearce" /> families.