San José 1783 possession dossier (COMPLETE roster, item-read) — Fages's framing ordinance + Moraga's *autos*; for each poblador 3 *diligencias*: (1) a 30-vara-square solar, (2) 4 *suertes de tierra* (200×200 varas, irrigated), (3) a cattle brand (fierro); dated 9 May 1783. ⭐ The 9 grantee-pobladores: Manuel González, José Tiburcio Vásquez, Manuel Amézquita, Antonio Romero, Sebastián Alvitre, Bernardo Rosales, Francisco Ábila, Claudio Alvires (Alviso), Juan Atanacio Vásquez (adjacency notes tie their solares/suertes together). Officials/witnesses: José Moraga (comisionado), Alcalde Ignacio Archuleta, Juan Pablo Grijalva, Juan José Peralta, Felipe Tapia, Felipe Saavedra, Antonio Butrón (most pobladores illiterate → signed by proxy) ⚠ SPAN NARROWED 2026-08-27 (band audit): read n240-n269 and concealed three documents. True close n266.
| Date | 1783-05-09 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José Moraga (Ten.te, Pres. San Francisco; comisionado) |
| Place | San José |
| Series | State Papers, Missions and Colonization |
| Tomo | I |
| Original tomo page | p.242–271 |
| Savage copy page | — |
| Scan leaf | n240-n266 |
| Document type | transcription (posesión) |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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José Moraga (Ten.te, Pres. San Francisco; comisionado), San José, 1783-05-09, State Papers, Missions and Colonization, I, p.242–271, Archives of California, C-A 52, 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/ca52/ca52-d39.html