ROYAL ORDER TO TAKE A CENSUS — transmits the Real Orden of 10 Nov 1776 to form *padrones* of all vassals/inhabitants, w/ a 'Padrón' + 'Estado' format: class/casta distinction of both sexes incl. infants, by province/jurisdiction (province, capital, villa, lugar, hacienda, rancho, estancia, misión; counts of hombres/mujeres/niños/niñas/esclavos; summaries of españoles, indios, mestizos, color quebrado, esclavos + ecclesiastics seculares/regulares/casados/viudos/solteros); ANNUAL padrones w/ births & deaths remitted to the King → the legal-and-formal foundation of the early California *padrones* → ECPP/person-layer + demographic history + casta classification + californio
| Date | 1783-05-20 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Caballero de Croix |
| To | Fages |
| Place | Arizpe |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | IV |
| Original tomo page | p.IV 41–42 (pp 109–113) |
| Savage copy page | 375–376 |
| Scan leaf | n378–n379 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Caballero de Croix to Fages, Arizpe, 1783-05-20, Provincial State Papers, IV, p.IV 41–42 (pp 109–113), Archives of California, C-A 2, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.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/ca2/ca2-d231.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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