Majors, Joseph L.

Joseph Ladd Majors was a frontiersman/trapper who came to the Santa Cruz area ~1840. Through marriage into the Castro family, he acquired the land grant that became Rancho San Agustin from his new brother-in-law Jose Bolcoff.

• History Pages: 7 - The Frontiersmen
• Santa Cruz: The Early Years (1980 book), 107-109
• The Joseph Majors story: Santa Cruz ranchero & American alcalde (2005 book)