The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Spring 1984, Volume 30, Number 2
Thomas L. Scharf, Managing Editor

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Robert Kelly

Page iv.

Robert Kelly, along with four other men, controlled Jamacha Rancho for some twenty years. Kelly directly oversaw the operation of the enterprise, acting as foreman or manager.

An English copy of the Diseno

Page 79.

An English copy of the Diseño to Rancho Jamacha. United States Land Commission, Southern District, Case No. 48.

Plot of the Jamacha Rancho

Page 82.

Plot of the Jamacha Rancho as patented in 1871.

Map of the Jamacha Rancho

Page 84.

Subdivision or partition Map of the Jamacha Rancho, showing the location of the Jamacha adobe.

Jamacha Rancho

Page 87.

A partial view of the Jamacha Rancho c. 1890, long after the “legal hocus-pocus” of its subdivision.

THE MAP on page 79 is courtesy of the Bancroft Library. Those on pages 82 and 84 are from San Diego County Court Records. Photographs are from the San Diego Historical Society’s Title Insurance and Trust Collection.