NEOPHYTE PETITION against the mission administrator — the Indians (fewer than 60 still working

NEOPHYTE PETITION against the mission administrator — the Indians (fewer than 60 still working; the rest fleeing) beg Alvarado to remove him: he uses mission labor for his own private wheat crop, has exhausted the cattle, brands the best mission horses with his own iron, trades away the mission's chickens/eggs/hides for private profit; they protest being flogged ('que no nos pelen las nalgas á azotes'), reject administrators 'que no son hijos de California,' and ask to name their own trusted one. Signed by the neophyte in his own hand ('de su puño y letra') for 'la Comunidad de neófitos'; Alvarado referred it to Visitador Hartnell for secret investigation (see Expanded Entry)

Date	1839-04-08 (exact)
From	a neophyte (San Juan Capistrano)
To	Gov. Juan Bautista Alvarado
Series	State Papers, Missions
Tomo	VI
Original tomo page	p.VII·75–76
Savage copy page	34–37
Scan leaf	n33–36
Document type	verbatim (petition)
Source	verbatim transcription

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a neophyte (San Juan Capistrano) to Gov. Juan Bautista Alvarado, 1839-04-08, State Papers, Missions, VI, p.VII·75–76, Archives of California, C-A 51, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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