RETROSPECTIVE Bancroft-era note, NOT a primary 1830s document — Savage's inserted «(Nota:...)» spanning…

State Papers, Missions, tomo VI–XI · BANC MSS C-A 51, document 261

⚠ RETROSPECTIVE Bancroft-era note, NOT a primary 1830s document — Savage's inserted «(Nota:...)» spanning n187–n189, signed «Recuerdos de Vicente Gomez - Febº de 1877». On why the missions fell into misery after secularization: governors named «hombres ineptos pª la Administracion de ellas, y no solo ineptos, sino qe. de mala fé, solo pr. favoritismo», given to «la embriaguez y el juego», who «saqueaban las Misiones sin misericordia, trasladándolo todo á sus casas, á las de sus parientes»; «El Gobierno disimulaba todo esto» to keep administrators content and soldiers available against a threatened expedition from Mexico.

Date1877-02 (month)
FromSavage quoting «Recuerdos de Vicente Gomez»
Place[San Francisco / Bancroft Library]
SeriesState Papers, Missions
TomoIX
Original tomo page—
Savage copy page187/10 – 189/12
Scan leafn187
Document typenote
SourceSavage abstract

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