Livestock delivered to the Lapérouse expedition at Monterey, 1786. In the Monterey Real Hacienda livestock account (caballar 35, burral 15, vacuno 1,882 [+377 born], etc.; total 2,566 head $1,622), among the cattle sold this year: 27 steers @ $5, 2 calved cows @ $6, 1 heifer @ $3, 'entregadas á las fragatas del Rey de Francia *Boussole* y *Astrolabe*' (Savage notes the original wrote 'Brújula y Astrolavio'). The only known C-A documentary trace of the French *Lapérouse* expedition's Sept 1786 call at Monterey — the first foreign (non-Spanish) expedition to visit Alta California. Orig. pp.440–445.
| Date | 1786-12-31 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Hermenegildo Sal |
| Place | Monterey |
| Series | Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | VIII |
| Original tomo page | 440–445 |
| Savage copy page | 201 |
| Scan leaf | n206 |
| Document type | account |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Hermenegildo Sal, Monterey, 1786-12-31, Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military), VIII, 440–445, 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-d281.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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