Underlined subject heading: “Relacion de espedicion de 7 Indios Cristianos en busca de otros huidos. Costumbres de Indios - etc.” Body: “Salieron los 7 Cristianos viejos - con 9 Cristianos nuevos.” They passed the “Ranchería de los Chaclanes[?]; no habia nadie” and in two days reached “la de los Chimenes - adonde fueron atacados luego con furia,” a people “como tantos como la gente de la mis.n de S.n Fran.co q.e entonces eran como 900 almas.” Quoted testimony of the survivor “el indio Othon”: the men poured armed from a large temascal, tore the party apart “diciendo estos son nuestros enemigos”; the alcaldes indios tried to persuade them “q.e no iban á pelear ni á hacerles daño alguno” but they fought on “hasta q.e mataron a siete,” six new Christians having fled at the alcaldes’ order. Borica then quotes his informants: the Chimenes are “de caracter bronco y valiente,” continually at war with neighbouring rancherías “y particularm.te con los Tegunes[?]; q.e viven en la costa del norte en las cercanias del puerto de la Bodega; q.e su comida es amole, bellota y pinole - y q.e sus capitanes princip.s son Mulé y Yuma.” He “cree prudente no buscar venganza - porq.e enfin mataron á Indios y no vasallos del rey,” they are many, valiant, and live some 30 leagues from Bodega; to avoid such disasters he begged the padres “no mandar mas requisitorias á la otra banda.”
| Date | 1795 Junio 23 (year) |
|---|---|
| From | Borica al Virrey |
| Place | Monterrey (events: San Francisco hinterland and the Bodega coast) |
| Series | Provincial Records |
| Tomo | V–VII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p. 171-4 (cite closes at top of n375) |
| Savage copy page | 372 / 48. |
| Scan leaf | n373 |
| Document type | fuller-letter abstract with long quoted extracts; spans n373-n375 |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Borica al Virrey, Monterrey (events: San Francisco hinterland and the Bodega coast), 1795 Junio 23, Provincial Records, V–VII, p. 171-4 (cite closes at top of n375), Archives of California, C-A 24, 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 V–VII]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/ca24/ca24-d569.html