Third investigation — the stolen trunk & household concealment. Adds the theft of a baúl of valuables Fr. Olbés entrusted for transport to Sta Clara — José Antº Robles & son Nieves stole it after getting Martín Ortega drunk; Ortega sold some contents (→ to be charged & arrested). Solá orders interrogating the mission Indians (about what they & the mayordomo hid) and the villagers' wives (concealed goods, cloth cut into clothes, items sold & to whom). Testimony: the wives (Pascuala Lorenzana, María Remigia Vázquez…) deny concealment; the Indian Silvestre and soldier José Mª Martín Ortega testify the mayordomo Castro directed the Indians to break doors with axes/bars and loot the warehouse & church ornaments, hauling goods to the laguna del Sargento. A multi-party plunder where villagers, Indians & mayordomo blame each other. Closes with the stolen-trunk strand: the Robles family (José Antº, Nieves, Rafael) sold the loot (a saya, black stockings, beads, blue-baize trousers) in San Francisco. Orig. pp.60–94
| Date | 1819-03-23 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Gob. Solá |
| To | Alf. José Estrada |
| Place | San Antonio |
| Series | Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | XL–LII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | pp.60–94 |
| Savage copy page | 286–291+ |
| Scan leaf | n285–n290 |
| Document type | verbatim transcription |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Gob. Solá to Alf. José Estrada, San Antonio, 1819-03-23, Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military), XL–LII, pp.60–94, 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-d334.html