Manuscript chart. ✎✓ RE-READ AT FULL RESOLUTION 2026-09-24 (n21). Title verbatim: **'Plano del Puerto del **Cap.n** Bodega descubierto con la Goleta "Sonora" el día **23 de 8bre**'** — ✎ the port is named for the CAPTAIN (matching AGI MP-MEXICO,582, 'Plano del puerto del Capitán Bodega'); *8bre* is the period abbreviation for octubre. ⚠⚠ **The leaf reads 23 — two clear glyphs, confirmed at 6752px — but the event was the 3rd.** Bodega entered the port on 3 Oct 1775 on four independent primary witnesses (AMN Ms.0622 f.33v; AGI ESTADO,20,N.21; AGI ESTADO,38A,N.5; and Bodega's own daily navigation table, which repeats an identical observed position on the 3rd and 4th — a ship at anchor). **So the '2' is an error somewhere in the copy chain, not a different date**; it can be localised by checking AGI MP-MEXICO,582 and its Library of Congress twin. Scale line: 'Desde la punta del Cordon á la de Munguia, **1 Legua**. Idem idem á la de las Arenas, **300 varas**.' Points lettered: **Punta de Munguia** (W, with **El farallon del Padre Sierra** off it), **Punta de las Arenas**, **Punta del Cordón** (a long spit running NW–SE), **Barras de arena**, **Campo verde** (NE). ⭐⭐ The enclosed water is labelled **'Mar ó Río'** — in 1775 the surveyors did not establish whether it was sea or river. Notes verbatim: 'La punta del Cordon esta situada bajo la latitud de **38° 18'**.' · 'La bahía de la boca coje desde la punta del Cordon á la punta de Arenas, y rompe á veces, sin embargo que tiene mucho fonda por la canal y fuera de ella.' · 'Entre la punta de Munguia y punta del Cordon es la entrada del puerto de mas **25 brazas de agua**.' ⚠ **Which bay this is, is an open question.** Tovell identifies Punta del Cordón and Punta de las Arenas as Tomales Bluff and Sand Point, which would make the 1775 'Puerto del Capitán Bodega' **Tomales Bay**, not Bodega Bay; Zayas letters the name at Bodega Bay in 1793. The 1 legua / 300 varas / 38°18' figures on this leaf are the hard constraints for testing any identification. Labeled 'Provincial State Papers, Benicia, Miscellaneous, 1770–1821'. Orig. pag. 465.
| Date | 1775-10-23 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | (Bodega y Cuadra / *Sonora* voyage) |
| Place | Puerto de la Bodega |
| Series | Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | I |
| Original tomo page | 465 |
| Savage copy page | 22 |
| Scan leaf | n21 |
| Document type | map / verbatim |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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(Bodega y Cuadra / *Sonora* voyage), Puerto de la Bodega, 1775-10-23, Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military), I, 465, Archives of California, C-A 15, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.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/ca15/ca15-d21.html- Previously read Title given as “Plano del Puerto de la Bodega … el día 3 de Octubre”; the record called it “the discovery map of Bodega Bay”.. Full-resolution re-read (6752px): “Plano del Puerto del Cap.n Bodega descubierto con la Goleta ‘Sonora’ el día 23 de 8bre.” The port is named for the captain; 8bre is the period abbreviation for octubre; and the day is two clear glyphs, 2 then 3. Scale line: “Desde la punta del Cordon á la de Munguia, 1 Legua. Idem idem á la de las Arenas, 300 varas.” The enclosed water is lettered “Mar ó Río”.