Semester climate/health report containing a primary account of the 8 Dec 1812 earthquake

Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military), tomo XL–LII · BANC MSS C-A 17, document 111

Semester climate/health report containing a primary account of the 8 Dec 1812 earthquake: NW winds damaged the wheat sowings of San Diego, San Luis & San Juan; then — *'El día 8 de Diciembre se sintió un temblor muy fuerte general en esta jurisdicción… pero en San Juan (Capistrano) cayó la iglesia y perecieron 40 almas, quedando todas las casas-habitación muy maltratadas. En San Gabriel no hubo desgracia alguna, pero la iglesia padeció algo.'* (The 'Great Earthquake of 1812'; SJC church collapse, 40 dead.) Orig. p.494

Date1812-12-31 (exact)
FromComte. Francisco Mª Ruiz
ToArrillaga
PlaceSan Diego
SeriesProvincial State Papers, Benicia (Military)
TomoXL–LII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo pagep.xliii.494
Savage copy page71–72
Scan leafn70–n71
Document typeverbatim transcription
Sourceverbatim transcription

Read this leaf on the Internet Archive ↗ · leaf n70–n71

How to cite this documentComte. Francisco Mª Ruiz to Arrillaga, San Diego, 1812-12-31, Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military), p.xliii.494, Archives of California, C-A 17, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within XL–LII]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/ca17/ca17-d111.html
The 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.
See something wrong? Corrections are reviewed against the leaf and published in the errata register on this very page, with credit.
← doc 110All 400 documents in C-A 17doc 112 →