'Sedición de Antonio Ávila' — investigation of a convict-band uprising in the 1832 civil conflict. Antonio Ávila led a band of presidiarios (from Santa Margarita) recruited & armed by Don Vicente Sánchez (the LA diputado; arms taken from Santa Bárbara, distributed at the Cerrito de los Voluntarios). The plan: join the Mazatlán squadron under Tte. Ibarra to fight the 'San Diego party' / oppose Zamorano (the northern Comandante), framed 'en defensa del Supremo Gob.no'; comisario Joaquín Gómez (SB) supplied goods; documents from Mariano Estrada, Rafael Gómez, Joaquín Gómez named. Six convict-deserters (Ignacio Olgadillo, Antonio Rivera, José Mª Blanquel, Catarino López, Joaquín Alfaro, Guadalupe Martínez) deposed — they deserted on realizing they'd been deceived by Sánchez & Ávila. A key datapoint on the 1832 post-Victoria civil war (Zamorano's north vs. Echeandía/Sánchez's south). ⭐⭐ Vicente Sánchez claimed parliamentary immunity (as a territorial Diputado, Const. Art. 336 + the 24 May 1813 Cortes decree) to refuse testifying; Asesor Gómez ruled the immunity didn't cover an act 'muy distante de sus atribuciones.' ⭐⭐ Conclusion: Gov. Figueroa (1833) dismissed the whole case under the AMNESTY law of 25 April 1832 — the accused already free & the cause unsubstantiated; sobreseído y archivado. ⚠️ n355–n362 read at sample leaves (repetitive convict-deserter testimony).
| Date | 1832-06-24 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Agustín V. Zamorano, Comand.te accidental |
| To | Sargto Solórzano |
| Place | Monterey |
| Series | Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | LXIX–LXXVII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | 566–606 |
| Savage copy page | 346–359 |
| Scan leaf | n351–n364 |
| Document type | verbatim/criminal |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Agustín V. Zamorano, Comand.te accidental to Sargto Solórzano, Monterey, 1832-06-24, Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), LXIX–LXXVII, 566–606, Archives of California, C-A 19, 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 LXIX–LXXVII]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/ca19/ca19-d183.html