[1] The grant extended along the Pacific coast from Shuman Canyon south to the Santa Ynez River.
Lewis (Luis) T. Burton (1809–1879) of Tennessee came overland with the Wolfskill party to California in 1831 and arrived in the Santa Barbara area shortly thereafter to trap otter.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored.
Edwin Jessop Marshall, a businessman with land holdings in California, Arizona, and Mexico acquired Rancho Jesus Maria in 1906.
[7][8] In 1941, the Marshall estate sold the rancho to the United States government for use as a military facility; it is now Vandenberg Space Force Base.