THE SITUADOS CRISIS ✎✓ leaf-verified 2026-07-08

Provincial State Papers, tomo XXI–XXII · BANC MSS C-A 14, document 74

THE SITUADOS CRISIS ✎✓ leaf-verified 2026-07-08: years 83–86 = 'hambres y desnudez' for the company + sea crew; when a shipment fails the troop serves 'lo menos año y medio… sin recibir paga'; at his 1783 ingreso al Presidio de LORETO (interlinear date) he 'encontró la fuerza sin más distintivo ni uniforme qe el traje qe cada uno podía adquirir, muchas familias sin ir á la Iglesia pr desnudez; las trojes con 40 @ de maíz únicamte.' Service 'odioso.' ✎ 1783 = 'no vino' (nothing came, not 'no wine'); ✎ 1784 = seeds + $8,000 came, 'apenas alcanzaron'; 1786 = $35,000 memoria, 'desde entonces no se manda nada.' 'Esta práctica solo en California se acostumbra.' ⚠ scope: the deprivation scene is Baja/Loreto — for Alta arrears use Doc 21 (Goycoechea/SB $12,357, pinned n33, 7 Apr 1800 — 8 yrs arrears back to ~1792)

Date1792-11-05 (exact)
FromArrillaga
ToViceroy
SeriesProvincial State Papers
TomoXXI
Original tomo pagep.xxi.195+
Savage copy page—
Scan leafn79–n83
Document typeabstract
SourceSavage abstract

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