On encounters with the Indians — a rich borderlands + Indian-affairs dossier: Ewing Young ('Joaquín Young') and his 22-man party arrive at Mission San José (from the Valle de San Luis, a day from New Mexico), to buy horses & trap beaver; shows two English passports differing only in date (1828 & 1829) [= Clay passports, docs 250/288] + one sealed at the Mexican Legation, Washington, 20 Mar 1828; Young's Americans join Mission San José's Indian alcalde Francisco Ximénez, who raised a 450-man gentile-auxiliary army (Cosumnes/Ochejamenes etc.) to recover fugitive neophytes; the fugitive captain Huyumecsepa refuses to return them, saying at the mission 'solo les daban muchos azotes' (⭐ an Indian indictment of mission floggings); a 3-hour firefight; ⭐⭐⭐ intelligence that Estanislao, pardoned cabecilla of the prior year's (1829) neophyte revolt, is out in the Tulares with 100 horses under a padre's license, and on the San Joaquín rancherías' horse herds (Moquelumnes, the 'capitán general' Tinay)
| Date | 1830-07-15 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José Berreyesa |
| To | [Comandante] |
| Place | San José |
| Series | Departmental State Papers |
| Tomo | II |
| Original tomo page | p.445, 136–139, 442–444 |
| Savage copy page | II:135 |
| Scan leaf | n299–n303 |
| Document type | verbatim |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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José Berreyesa to [Comandante], San José, 1830-07-15, Departmental State Papers, II, p.445, 136–139, 442–444, Archives of California, C-A 27, 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/ca27/ca27-d320.html