Declaraciones de atentados contra la vida de Sutter — Sutter's first-person narrative of three Indian…

Departmental State Papers (Juzgados / Naturalization), tomo XVII–XX · BANC MSS C-A 33, document 129

Declaraciones de atentados contra la vida de Sutter — Sutter's first-person narrative of three Indian assassination/uprising plots against him among the Sacramento tribes (Cozumnes / Cosolumnes); the first bramba [ambush?] by an Indio he calls Antonio (baptized by Francisco Javier), an Americano-influenced sujeto; the second (Mar 1) ~50 armed & feathered Indios headed by Capitán Antonio y Sixto planning to burn the houses and kill; the third (Mar 24) foiled; ⭐⭐⭐⭐ appends the Declaración de los Indios Magín, Camilo y Salvador naming the conspiracy's leaders — 'El Capitán Antonio, el Capitán Chupuchu, el Capitán de los Pescadores Anashe' — and ~18 named Indios (Salvador, Aráney, 'Ansh que mató al Indio Francisco Javier,' Geronimo, Julian, Manay, Berno, Cristano, Ense, Cosimo, Celso...); plot to gather 50 armed Indios, incendiary; ends 'End.' (= final leaf of Vol. XVII Juzgados)

Date~1844 (sin fecha ni lugar) (inferred)
FromSutter
ToJuan B. Alvarado (Gob. Constitucional)
PlaceNueva Helvecia (Sacramento)
SeriesDepartmental State Papers (Juzgados / Naturalization)
TomoXVII
Original tomo page415–418
Savage copy page88–93
Scan leafn90–n95
Document typeabstract/verbatim
Sourceverbatim transcription

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How to cite this documentSutter to Juan B. Alvarado (Gob. Constitucional), Nueva Helvecia (Sacramento), ~1844 (sin fecha ni lugar), Departmental State Papers (Juzgados / Naturalization), XVII, 415–418, Archives of California, C-A 33, 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/ca33/ca33-d129.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.
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