Causa vs Serapio, neófito of Santa Clara, for the rape-murder of the boy Miguel (~11): Serapio confessed he forced the boy (who had refused), then stabbed and killed him to keep him silent (26 Dec 1827); while a fugitive he killed 10 Sta Clara mission cattle, took 9 horses, and took church asylum at Sta Clara; fiscal recommends expatriation from the province. ⚠ Includes a colonial-discourse marginal note: 'Noticia de la sodomía entre los indios por el rumbo del Norte es algo común; lo mismo el estupro, y al matar las criaturas. Hay varios ejemplares públicos…' (a Spanish official generalizing about 'the northern Indians' — fraught source for histories of sexuality/colonial discourse)
| Date | 1829-03-10 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Ignacio Martínez (juez fiscal) |
| Place | San Francisco |
| Series | Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | LIII–LXVIII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | LXVIII.527–37 |
| Scan leaf | n438–n439 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Ignacio Martínez (juez fiscal), San Francisco, 1829-03-10, Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), LXVIII.527–37, 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-d384.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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