*Certificado de la fundación de Sta Catalina* — the frontier-commander's act-of-possession certificate: full founding ceremony (blessed water, cross adored & raised, Litany of the Saints, sung Mass + sermon, solemn Te-Deum, baptismal font blessed, one Gentile girl offered herself & was baptized), possession taken in the King's name with a *salva* by his troop — ⭐ 'se ministró en este sitio, no por usurparles sus tierras' (established here not to usurp their lands); dedicated to Sta Catalina Virgen y Mártir
| Date | 1797-11-12 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Sgt. José Manuel Ruiz |
| Place | Sta Catalina |
| Series | State Papers, Missions |
| Tomo | I–V (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p.ii.682 |
| Savage copy page | 250–252 |
| Scan leaf | n249–n251 |
| Document type | abstract (verbatim-rich) |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Sgt. José Manuel Ruiz, Sta Catalina, 1797-11-12, State Papers, Missions, p.ii.682, 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-d231.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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