Heading verbatim: '+ 1800. Ag.to 24 - Monterrey

Heading verbatim: '+ 1800. Ag.to 24 - Monterrey. / Pedro de Alberni, Comand.te de Armas de Presidios de N.C. al Gob. Arrillaga. Arribo de buques y desembarco de niños y niñas.' [= arrival of vessels and landing of boys and girls]. Body verbatim: 'Dá parte q.e el dia anterior anclaron el el Pto. las Fragatas Princesa y Concepcion al mando de Ten.te de Navio D. Benito Vebero [?], la prim.a de guerra y la 2.a Urca, conduciendo Memorias p.a aquellos Presidios y Misiones, 58 dias navegacion, procedentes de S.n Blas; q.e desembarcaron 8 niños de la Cuna, de 7 años abajo y 10 niñas, algunas de ellas casaderas, y la mujer que viene á su cuidado, habiéndose alojado en las casas de dos soldados casados.' [= reports that the day before there anchored in the port the frigates Princesa and Concepción under the naval lieutenant Don Benito Vebero, the first a warship and the second a storeship, carrying the memorias (annual supplies) for those presidios and missions, 58 days out of San Blas; that there were landed 8 boys from the Cuna (foundling home), aged under 7, and 10 girls, some of them of marriageable age, together with the woman who comes in charge of them, they having been lodged in the houses of two married soldiers]. Savage's 'el el Pto.' is a dittography in the copy, transcribed as written. Surname 'Vebero' uncertain [?] — could be Ubero/Vevero; the initial capital is heavily flourished. Document runs from the lower half of n9 onto the top of n10, ending 'pp. 19-21.'

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