Character of the Colorado River Indians & lands, per Fr. Francisco Garcés (who accompanied Lt

Character of the Colorado River Indians & lands, per Fr. Francisco Garcés (who accompanied Lt. Juan Bautista de Anza to the Río Colorado): docility & desire of the riverine nations for padres/Spaniards; lands good for all crops & esp. cattle; flood-prone but with *mesas* fit to settle; area demarcated for the padres — will further 'esta conquista' — see Entry 8

Date	1776-06-20 (exact)
From	Neve
To	Virrey
Series	Provincial Records
Tomo	I
Original tomo page	70–72
Savage copy page	48–49
Scan leaf	n48–n49
Document type	abstract
Source	Savage abstract

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How to cite this document

Neve to Virrey, 1776-06-20, Provincial Records, I, 70–72, Archives of California, C-A 22, 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/ca22/ca22-d63.html

Correction to this entry.

Previously read place: ''; orig_page: '70–72'. Leaves read: 168036074_80_4_2 n48 (stamp "48") and n49 (stamp "49"). Heading verbatim: "+ 1776 - Junio 20 - Loreto. / (Neve al Virey). Sobre el carácter de Indios y terrenos en el Colorado." place WRONG: the field is empty although the leaf heads the entry "Loreto" and the record carries the place nowhere else. (This is systematic rather than isolated: 377 of ca22's 385 rows have an empty place.) orig_page WRONG: the document's own foot, on n49, reads "p. 72." — a single page, verified at 3x. "70–72" is the foot of the PRECEDING entry, "+1776 - Junio 21 - Loreto ... pp. 70 - 72" (= ca22-d62), duplicated onto this row; the following entry is footed "p. 72 - 73" (= d64). summary_fidelity PARTIAL: otherwise faithful — "la docilidad y deseos de los Indios de las diversas naciones que habitan sus márgenes", "propias para toda clase de siembras, y especialmente pª cría de ganados", "expuestos á grandes avenidas, no faltan algunas mesas apropósito para situarse", "habiendo sido aquella parte demarcada pª los PP., hará todo lo posible pª el adelantamiento de esta conquista" — but the leaf calls Anza "el Tente Corl Juan Bautista de Anza" (Teniente Coronel) and the abstract demotes him to "Lt." Omissions OK: n48–n49 carry three entries, all catalogued (d62, d63, d64).

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