Auto-compiled from name-form clustering; identity spans all records matching these forms — offices not yet verified against the manuscripts. Bare “Stearns” (59 records) left unattributed and NOT included.
Recorded span
1830 to 1849
Records
38 naming this person as author or recipient
Name forms matched
abel stearns
‘fl.’ = the span of dated catalog records matching the name forms as author/recipient. Outlier years usually mean a retrospective mention, a later copy, a homonym, or a record whose own date carries a low confidence flag — check the records, not this line. Counts are of DISTINCTIVE name forms; bare family surnames (Argüello, Carrillo, Castro, Estrada…) are deliberately left unattributed rather than guessed.
1831-07-13 · C-A 49, doc 314 — rebuffs Abel Stearns — no legal object to remain, his passport term concluded; should stop 'faltarme'; may appeal to the Supreme Govt
1831-09-23 · C-A 59, doc 69 — Previously uncatalogued — recovered by the 2026-08-27 coverage audit: the document lay inside the declared span of a grouped entry covering n322-n341, which had passed every comple
1836-07-08 · C-A 42, doc 1456 — FULL TRANSCRIPTION — Stearns protests his EXPULSION order: ordered to leave the Territory for México as 'peligroso… inmediato en la Revolución del Sur (Victoria)'; pleads his 'mult
1840-10-24 · C-A 30, doc 86 — Instancia (registro de contrabando): Argüello con el juez de 1ª instancia y ministros de vecinos le exigieron sin causa las llaves de sus almacenes (so pretexto de contrabando), ll
1840-10-19 · C-A 30, doc 87 — Sobre embargo: si en 24 horas no le devuelven los efectos tomados, reclamará conforme á las leyes
1840-10-22 · C-A 30, doc 88 — Sobre embargo: pasado el término de 24 horas sin devolución, protesta y pide que Santiago Argüello (sin autoridad) no intervenga en la redacción; Lugo le devuelve el escrito por es
1840-10-22 · C-A 30, doc 89 — Un hombre tomó el bote de Samuel Prentiss (negado, lo tomó por fuerza), lo habilitó y salió á la «isla chica», capturándola, y volvió con sus hombres hacia la ciudad
1845-02-12 · C-A 61, doc 169 — 'Feb. 12. (Sesion de este dia.) (Perspectiva de la Guerra civil.)' Spans n134-n135. Abel Stearns excuses his failure to join the Comision. The Juez 1.o of Los Angeles forwards the
1846-06-20 · C-A 31, doc 5 — 'Noticias alarmantes sobre Castro': on taking office (secret session), reported via alcalde Juan E. Gallardo positive news that José Castro would fall on LA within three days; the
1846-07-01 · C-A 31, doc 142 — [= published record #7] Draft ordering the Junta to convene and to give notice the moment it is assembled
1846-06-27 · C-A 35, doc 1162 — establish a permanent security force given 'las circunstancias anómalas por que atraviesa el país' (doc pp.482-3)
1846-07-04 · C-A 35, doc 1174 — a weights-&-measures bando — the fanega/vara measures to be sealed at the Casa Consistorial, annual revision, $10 fine (ties 1008) (doc pp.504-5)
1846-07-14 · C-A 35, doc 1177 — indications of an imminent disturbance of the public peace — doubles the patrols & vigilance (doc p.510)
1846-06-23 · C-A 37, doc 413 — «Sobre rebelión de José Castro» VERBATIM: traslada la orden del Srío del Despacho (21 Jun) — el Gob. no duda qᵉ Castro «llevando adelante sus miras sediciosas… está resuelto á dar
1846-07-24 · C-A 42, doc 251 — 'Renuncia': resigns as public functionary — all now deny him obedience, considering him 'uno de los enemigos, solo por ser americano del Norte'; keeps 3 armed foreigners at his hou
1846-07-23 · C-A 42, doc 253 — Announces a Ute horse-raid on the 'Nuevos Mejicanos' & the arrival of 8 Americans from LA at Jurupa (6 without passports, ignorant of the bando)
1846-07-24 · C-A 42, doc 588 — Remits three padrones (censuses) of Los Angeles; informed he is relieved of the LA Sub-Prefecture, remits the archive, ready to serve 'en defensa de la Patria' [2 docs]
1846-06-21 · C-A 42, doc 595 — The capital being free of invasion by interim Comte Gral José Castro, the merchant citizens & foreigners who had mustered to defend LA went home; a secure channel to the absent Gov
1846-07-02 · C-A 42, doc 597 — Convoked the Assembly on the 'estado crítico del país'; on 30 June sent 14+ men under Juan Gallardo; measures for the city's order
1846-06-22 · C-A 42, doc 598 — Cover: encloses the 5-man LA vecinos' commission dictamen and his address to the assembled vecinos (Assembly VP couldn't convene a quorum, so the Sub-Prefecture is to take measures
1846-06-22 · C-A 42, doc 602 — The 50 men requested couldn't be gathered, but a number leave tomorrow with Juan Gallardo
1846-06-03 · C-A 61, doc 258 — Land expediente no.29 approved: 'Yd. de Abel Stearns parage los Vallecitos jurisd. de la Baja Cal.' Naturalized-foreigner grantee.
1848-05-17 · C-A 63, doc 168 — Municipal revenue & expenses: amt collected 1st 4 months of the year $173 from duties imposed by a territorial law on stores, taverns, billiard tables & liquors; fines imposed by m
1849-10-18 · C-A 63, doc 482 — Que nombran Prefecto de Los Ángeles á [Stephen C.] Foster y Juez de 1ª Instancia á Agustín Olvera