Santiago Smith Wilcocks → Gov. Solá: his schooner was seized & he is a prisoner at Guaymas; 'el malvado Ramírez' robbed a large part of his cargo to condemn the ship 'by licit means'; ⭐ denounces the slander that he meant 'levantarme con las Californias para integrarlas a los anglo-americanos mis paisanos' (to seize the Californias and annex them to the Anglo-Americans) — believes the lie reached the governor; he & his sailors held like prisoners on 2–4 reales; encloses copies of all his letters to prove there are no secrets. = expanded Document 19
| Date | 1817-12-12 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Guaymas |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | XX |
| Original tomo page | i.~716 |
| Savage copy page | 163–165 |
| Scan leaf | n162–n164 |
| Document type | verbatim |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Guaymas, 1817-12-12, Provincial State Papers, i.~716, Archives of California, C-A 13, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [page interpolated; verify at the leaf]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca13/ca13-d203.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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