Full-text exhortation to the San José vecindario

Provincial Records, tomo III–IV · BANC MSS C-A 23, document 1479

Full-text exhortation to the San José vecindario: 'como 600 fanegas de Maiz, 130 de frijol y 130 @ de harina flor' consumed annually by presidio troop and families; 'dígales Vd que los Quiero buenos cristianos y trabajadores, que sobre este pie cuenten Conmigo en cuanto pueda auxiliarlos' — self-sufficiency in provisions, guaranteed purchase of their crops, industry in leather crafts (saddles, spurs, boots, shoes), threat of forced labor for the idle/vicious.

Date1795-01 (month)
FromBorica
ToComdte del Pueblo de Sn José
PlaceMonterey
SeriesProvincial Records
TomoIV
Original tomo pagep.522-523
Savage copy page220
Scan leafn505
Document typeorder
SourceSavage abstract

Read this leaf on the Internet Archive ↗ · leaf n505

How to cite this documentBorica to Comdte del Pueblo de Sn José, Monterey, 1795-01, Provincial Records, IV, p.522-523, Archives of California, C-A 23, 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/ca23/ca23-d1479.html
The 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.
See something wrong? Corrections are reviewed against the leaf and published in the errata register on this very page, with credit.
← doc 1478All 1807 documents in C-A 23doc 1480 →