Quit-claim deed for beach lots at La Playa, San Diego, California, 1853, December 10.

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Quit-claim deed for beach lots at La Playa, San Diego, California, 1853, December 10.

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Quit-claim deed in which George Horatio Derby, U.S. Army, sells to Charles M. Hitchcock, Surgeon of San Francisco, beach lots in La Playa, San Diego, for $10,000.00. Printed form, filled in. Signed by George H. Derby.

1 manuscript, 2 pages.

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861

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George Horatio Derby was born on April 3, 1823, in Dedham, Massachusetts. He graduated from West Point in 1846 and served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Topographic Corps. He mapped the San Diego River in 1853 before moving to San Francisco in 1854 to marry Mary A. Coons. While in San Francisco, Derby began writing satiric articles for the San Francisco Herald and California Pioneer Magazine, for which he used the pseudonyms "John P. Squibob" and "John Phoenix." Derby died of a possible brain ...