Verbatim heading: '1788 Abril 7 - San Gabriel / Fages = Ordenes grales que debe observar el Sargento encargado de la Escolta de la nueva Mision de la Purísima Concepcion'. English gloss: Fages, general orders to be observed by the sergeant in charge of the escort of the new Mission La Purísima Concepción. A full Fages escort instruction for a mission founded only months earlier, copied out at length across six leaves. Opening article, verbatim: 'Debe estar entendido, y hacer entender con su ejemplo y persuasiones á los de su cargo, la estrecha obligacion en que nos hallamos de contribuir en nuestro modo á infundir á los Indios el deseado amor á nuestra sagda relign y costumbres, y por tanto no disimulará lo mas leve que se cometa contra esta máxima, en que principalmte consiste la conquista.' Further articles: when Indians appear armed in numbers they are to be treated con agasajo and, without showing distrust, a third or half the escort is to take arms while the rest stand ready; only the capitanejos may enter the cuadro; 'que por ningun motivo se les den beldueques, aros de barril, pedazos de espadas ni otros instrumentos de que hacen armas'; no soldier or servant may go to the rancherías except on detailed service; a soldier who breaks this to trade gets 'ocho dias de Planton haciendo primas y modorras con cuatro cueras, pero si fuere por las Indias, ó que las solicite en el campo se le doblará la pena'; servants get eight days in grillete y cadena, doubled and sleeping in the cepo on repetition; any soldier or servant who strikes or takes private revenge on Indians is to be imprisoned and reported. Indian offenders: eight days in the cepo for wounding a beast, fifteen for killing one, released before their capitanejos with admonition, 'por la primera se les castiga con piedad, pero que si reinciden seran tratados con mayor rigor'. Live sentinel day and night; the caballada and stock under pastoría y vela. Friars going to the rancherías get 'dos ó tres hombres de escolta' and must not overnight outside the mission without notice to the presidio commander. 'No tiene facultad el Sargto para destacar partidas en solicitud de Indios cimarrones' except in urgent cases. He is to use feast days to find the best straight road from the mission to the new Laguna Larga road for the mail. Restraint article, verbatim: 'que no se maltrate á los Indios en manera alguna sino fuere en la forzosa precision de que nos insulten con sus armas'. Closes on n211 with orders on mail parties passing the escort, no cambalache of beasts, and an escort of two or three men for the mission mule train going to San Luis, then the page cite.
| Date | 1788-04-07 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Pedro Fages to the sergeant commanding the escolta of Mission La Purísima Concepción |
| Place | San Gabriel |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | VII–VIII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | pp. 67-76 |
| Savage copy page | n206 stamp 206 / hand 21; n207 stamp 207 / hand 22; n208 stamp 208 / hand 23; n209 stamp 209 / hand 24 (not opened); n210 stamp 210 / hand 25; n211 stamp 211 / hand 26 |
| Scan leaf | n206-n211 |
| Document type | verbatim transcription (instruction) |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Pedro Fages to the sergeant commanding the escolta of Mission La Purísima Concepción, San Gabriel, 1788-04-07, Provincial State Papers, VII–VIII, pp. 67-76, Archives of California, C-A 4, 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 VII–VIII]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/ca4/ca4-d446.html