Vallejo ordered to investigate the wounding of vecino José Antonio Castro at Mission San Juan Bautista…

Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), tomo LIII–LXVIII · BANC MSS C-A 18, document 160

Vallejo ordered to investigate the wounding of vecino José Antonio Castro at Mission San Juan Bautista (9 Aug — a sable cut to the left arm by Buenaventura Zúñiga 'Quinte' over a gambling quarrel: a won horse + a disputed card-deck payment); witnesses Ignacio Vallejo, Felipe García; cirujano Manuel Toca (wound not mortal); confession before alcalde Ignacio Pacheco — Zúñiga pleads self-defense

Date1824-08-14 (exact)
FromGob. [Luis] Argüello
Tocadete Mariano G. Vallejo (Juez Comisionado)
PlaceMonterey / San Juan Bautista
SeriesDep. State Papers, Benicia (Military)
TomoLIII–LXVIII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo pageLVII.588–623
Scan leafn183–n187
Document typetranscription
SourceSavage abstract

Read this leaf on the Internet Archive ↗ · leaf n183–n187

How to cite this documentGob. [Luis] Argüello to cadete Mariano G. Vallejo (Juez Comisionado), Monterey / San Juan Bautista, 1824-08-14, Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), LVII.588–623, Archives of California, C-A 18, 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 LIII–LXVIII]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/ca18/ca18-d160.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 159All 401 documents in C-A 18doc 161 →