Narciso Botello

Narciso Botello (about 1813–1889) was a chief of staff for Mexican General Joaquín Ramírez y Sesma before the Mexican–American War and was the first Southern California member of the California State Assembly after California organized its legislature.

Botello was born about 1813 in Real de los Álamos in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México). He moved with his brothers to the Pueblo de Los Ángeles in Alta California, in 1832 or 1833, when it was within independent Mexico .

Shortly after, he married a daughter of General Joaquin Ramirez y Sesma, commandment of the local Mexican military department. In the first census of California under United States administration, in 1850, he was listed as married to Francisca Ruiz, with two children, Narciso and Francisca. He may also have had a third child, Maria, who is listed in the 1860 census.

Botello died in East Los Angeles on November 20, 1889, at the age of seventy-six. He was survived by a daughter. At that time his home was on Hawkins Street in East L.A.

When Los Angeles was within Mexico, Botello was chief of staff for Mexican General Ramirez y Sesma. His two brothers also married daughters of the general.

In 1833, he was provisionally granted four square leagues, or 17,706 acres, of the Rancho Santa Maria de Los Peñasquitos, but because he "failed to fulfill the requirements," the rancho was then granted to Jose Joaquin Ortega in 1843.

In 1837, Botello was secretary of the ayuntamiento of Los Angeles. "He was for eight years Jefe de los Archivos of Los Angeles, and served a term as Prefecto.

In 1845 lands of Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura were granted by the Mexican government to Botillo and a man named Jose Arnaz, and later it was said that the mission's former lands were "illegally sold" to Arnaz.

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