Estado de las Misiones de la Nueva California… 1795 y 1796* — Sínodos ($800 × 13 = $10,400

State Papers, Missions, tomo I–V · BANC MSS C-A 50, document 214

*Estado de las Misiones de la Nueva California… 1795 y 1796* — Sínodos ($800 × 13 = $10,400; 26 friars + 5 supernumeraries); Indian pop. 11,216 ('desde 1769… se han bautizado… 21,653 indios y solo existen 11,216'); ⭐ Borica's four-cause etiology of mission population decline (loss of liberty; excessive labor + scarce food; disease/filth; the nightly locked women's dormitories — 'no me fue posible aguantar… ni un minuto'); mission industries (wool/cotton textiles, tanning, smithies); + the second-wave status report ('aprobadas 5 Misiones y fundadas 2 en el presente mes' = San José & SJB, June 1797, 'para cerrar la conquista espiritual desde S. Diego á S. Francisco') (see Expanded Entry 12)

Date1797-06-30 (exact)
FromBorica
PlaceMonterey
SeriesState Papers, Missions
TomoI–V (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo pagep.ii.559–63
Savage copy page233–236
Scan leafn232
Document typeabstract
SourceSavage abstract

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How to cite this documentBorica, Monterey, 1797-06-30, State Papers, Missions, p.ii.559–63, 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-d214.html
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