A Los Angeles political-disturbance causa (the flag affair) — a bandera raised at [Abel] Stearns's house; witnesses/accused Guillermo (William) Quinto[?], Sérulo/Cérulo Varelas, Antonio López; Alcalde Domínguez took declarations; referred to Alcalde 1º Tiburcio Tapia (context = the mid-1830s LA political disturbances) [Leaf-verified 2026-09-02: the bandera was the PREFECTURA's flag kept at Abel Stearns's house (Peña had no fixed prefecture office); the motín's object was to remove it from a foreigner's house; Stearns himself ordered the res tied to the flagpole (n444); Tapia as Prefecto int.o received the expediente at the end.]
| Date | 1839-05-21 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Lic.do Cosme Peña, Prefecto del 2.o Distrito |
| To | Alcalde 2.o de Los Ángeles |
| Place | Los Angeles |
| Series | Departmental State Papers, Benicia |
| Tomo | II (Miscellaneous) (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | pp 967–1070 |
| Savage copy page | 435–443 |
| Scan leaf | n436–n444 |
| Document type | verbatim |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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How to cite this document
Lic.do Cosme Peña, Prefecto del 2.o Distrito to Alcalde 2.o de Los Ángeles, Los Angeles, 1839-05-21, Departmental State Papers, Benicia, II (Miscellaneous), pp 967–1070, Archives of California, C-A 39, 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 II (Miscellaneous)]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/ca39/ca39-d153.htmlThe 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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