Inquiry into Indians of San José & Santa Clara killed on a punitive expedition. A party under Alférez [Gonzalo?] de Vallejo (⚠️ the first name as written resembles 'Gonzalo,' but in context — SF company alférez 1º, 1829 — this is almost certainly Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo) pursuing Christian Indians of San José & Santa Clara killed & robbed Indians incl. 3 defenseless old women; the fiscal finds only one Indian was shot (not lanced) and that a Monterey soldier ([Joaquín?] Alvarado) killed an elderly gentile woman — 'aunque fuese en el acto de la guerra, no le es permitido á ninguna persona [atacar] á los del sexo femenino' — recommending 5 extra years on the Baja Cal. frontier. ⚠️ *I'm inferring* this is the atrocity inquiry following M. G. Vallejo's May–June 1829 campaign against Estanislao (an SJ-mission neophyte) — dates/place/perpetrator fit, but verify against the Estanislao record before asserting. Orig. pp.518–541.
| Date | 1829-10-31 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Ignacio Martínez, fiscal |
| Place | San Francisco |
| Series | Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | LXIX–LXXVII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | 518–541 |
| Savage copy page | 45 |
| Scan leaf | n45 |
| Document type | verbatim/criminal |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Ignacio Martínez, fiscal, San Francisco, 1829-10-31, Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), LXIX–LXXVII, 518–541, 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-d47.html