Borica instructs the engineer Córdova to submit an informe on where to plant the projected pueblo of…

State Papers, Missions and Colonization, tomo I · BANC MSS C-A 52, document 62

Borica instructs the engineer Córdova to submit an informe on where to plant the projected pueblo of gente de razón. Spans n369-n370. Opens: 'En la Mis.n de Sta. Clara entregué á vm. copia certificada del of.o q.e con f.ha. de 15 de Dic.e del año últ.o me pasó el Exmo. Sr. Virey Marques de Branciforte, junto con el informe del R.l Tribl. de Ctas. q.e en el se cita, y trata sobre no haber lugar los auxil.s solicitados p.a la tropa de la 2.a Comp.a de Volunt.s de Cataluña con motivo de haber sido destinada á guarnecer esta prov.a, pero indicando el modo de compensar su serv.o p.r medio de una nueva Poblac.n en q.e se estableciese desp.s de cumplida' [= at Mission Santa Clara he handed Córdova a certified copy of the viceroy Branciforte's oficio of 15 Dec. of last year, with the Tribunal de Cuentas report, denying the aid asked for the 2nd Company of Catalonian Volunteers but proposing they be compensated by settling in a new town after discharge]. Orders: 'me ha de informar vm. á continuac.n de este of.o cuanto le parezca conducente al logro de la idea, desp.to á q.e en mi comp.a tiene reconocidos los terrenos de la Mis.n de Sta Cruz y los intermedios p.r todo el Arroyo del Pajaro, hta. el de Sta. Clara y en la del Ten.te Cor.l D.n Pedro Alberni los sitios de la Alameda é inmediac.s del Pres.o de S.n Fran.co y Mis.n de este nombre' [= report, appended to this oficio, on the lands he reconnoitred with Borica at Santa Cruz and along the Arroyo del Pájaro to Santa Clara, and with Lt. Col. Pedro Alberni at the Alameda and around San Francisco presidio and mission]. He must state whether there are lands fit 'p.a poblac.n de Españoles', what the site next to Santa Cruz offers, and 'si resultaría perjuicio á los Ind.s de establecer á esta banda del Rio un Pueb.o de gente de raz.n' [= whether founding a town of gente de razón on this bank of the river would harm the Indians]; also the prices and indispensable aid to be given settlers 'con distinc.n de á sold.s Volunt.s cumplidos, á Invalidos q.e se agreguen, y á los vecinos particulares q.e quieran establecerse' [= distinguishing discharged Volunteers, invalids, and private settlers].

Date1796-07-16 (exact)
FromDiego de Borica (Gov. of the Californias)
ToAlberto de Córdova (royal engineer)
PlaceMonterey
SeriesState Papers, Missions and Colonization
TomoI
Original tomo pagepp. 883-4.
Savage copy page371 [stamp] / 374 [hand]
Scan leafn369–n370
Document typeoficio / order to report
SourceSavage abstract

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How to cite this documentDiego de Borica (Gov. of the Californias) to Alberto de Córdova (royal engineer), Monterey, 1796-07-16, State Papers, Missions and Colonization, I, pp. 883-4., 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-d62.html
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