Estado de las Misiones de los Padres Dominicos en Baja California en 1793 y 1794 — Notas y Resúmenes*…

State Papers, Missions, tomo I–V · BANC MSS C-A 50, document 142

*Estado de las Misiones de los Padres Dominicos en Baja California en 1793 y 1794 — Notas y Resúmenes* (the Baja counterpart to Doc 124): population 'rises' only via newly-catechized gentiles, but the old missions from San José del Cabo to San Fernando lost a QUARTER of their Indians 1789→1794 — blamed on *gálico*, forced mission labor, seed-scarcity/malnutrition & crowded living ('son causas de que estos infelices se acaben'); + 7 Notas (San Pedro Mártir founded 1794; sínodos from ex-Jesuit obras pías; industry = wool/cotton frazadas; water/land shortage)

Date1795-07-13 [⚠ header reads '1793' — impossible; the report runs through end-1794 & pairs with Borica's Alta *Estado* Doc 124, same date/place] (exact)
PlaceMonterey
SeriesState Papers, Missions
TomoI–V (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo pagep.ii.148–150
Savage copy page174–176
Scan leafn173
Document typeabstract
SourceSavage abstract

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How to cite this documentMonterey, 1795-07-13 [⚠ header reads '1793' — impossible; the report runs through end-1794 & pairs with Borica's Alta *Estado* Doc 124, same date/place], State Papers, Missions, p.ii.148–150, 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-d142.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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