Fort Guijarros (San Diego) artillery & munitions census. 'Estado de la artillería, municiones &c. que tiene el Fuerte de Guijarros,' rated buenos/medianos/inútiles: cañones de fierro 6 (buenos), de bronce 2 buenos + 5 medianos; 995 balas de fierro; 219 saquetes de metralla; 8 arrobas cuerda mecha; cartuchos llenos de á 8 (114), á 6 (154), á 4 (42); etc. Decay note (verbatim): 'Cinco de los cañones de bronce se hallan muy desfogonados; las cureñas no sirven. Las cureñas de los de fierro se hallan podridas.' (5 bronze cannon badly vent-worn; carriages useless; iron-gun carriages rotted.) Orig. p.1 (tomo LII).
| Date | 1820-10-23 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Cabo de Artillería José Homobono Meneses (Vº Bº Estudillo) |
| Place | San Diego |
| Series | Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | XL–LII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | 1 |
| Savage copy page | 340–342 |
| Scan leaf | n339–n341 |
| Document type | inventory |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Cabo de Artillería José Homobono Meneses (Vº Bº Estudillo), San Diego, 1820-10-23, Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military), XL–LII, 1, 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-d376.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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