*Notas* on the Alta-CA missions — a rich qualitative report (see Expanded Entry 5): 1794 totals (1,746 baptisms, 502 marriages, 736 deaths, net +1,015); notes 26 sínodo-friars + 4 supernumerarios for 13 missions; a striking passage attributing infant deaths to mothers' *aborto/sofocar*; 9 numbered notes on churches, sínodos (ex-Jesuit obras pías), doctrina, mission industry (wool textiles, cotton at San Luis/San Gabriel, San Carlos artisans in carpentry/masonry, SF blacksmiths, tanning), crops; ⭐ '17 or 18 languages from San Francisco to San Diego' (Channel [Chumash] more inclined to Spanish); ⭐⭐ proposal to found 3 new missions (SD–San Juan Cap.; San Gabriel–San Buenaventura; San Luis–San Antonio) — the rationale for the 1797–98 second-wave foundings
| Date | 1795-03-01 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Fr. Fermín de Lasuén |
| Place | Padre Presidente, Monterey |
| Series | State Papers, Missions |
| Tomo | I–V (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p.ii.4–8 |
| Savage copy page | 4 (T.II) |
| Scan leaf | n137 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Fr. Fermín de Lasuén, Padre Presidente, Monterey, 1795-03-01, State Papers, Missions, p.ii.4–8, Archives of California, C-A 50, 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 I–V]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/ca50/ca50-d116.html