'Falta de esquilmos.' Answering a note ordering him to satisfy Padre Mercado's debts to private parties. Verbatim: 'qe no hay mas esquilmos, qe los cueros de res, pues la mitad de la gente qe trabaja en los telares está sin frasadas, y los demas oficios suspensos.' [Gloss: nothing left to sell but cowhides; half the weavers have no blankets and the other workshops have shut down.] Destitution of the Indian workforce stated as a fiscal fact.
| Date | 1840-11-16 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Ignacio Albisu |
| To | Srio. de Gbno. José Ygº Fernandez |
| Place | Santa Clara |
| Series | State Papers, Missions |
| Tomo | IX |
| Original tomo page | p.498-9 |
| Savage copy page | 230/53 |
| Scan leaf | n230 |
| Document type | letter |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Ignacio Albisu to Srio. de Gbno. José Ygº Fernandez, Santa Clara, 1840-11-16, State Papers, Missions, IX, p.498-9, Archives of California, C-A 51, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.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/ca51/ca51-d330.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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