the *goleta*-cargo inventory (Vallejo, the commander & the baker doing the storing themselves 'por que…

the *goleta*-cargo inventory (Vallejo, the commander & the baker doing the storing themselves 'por que no se puede más en S. Francisco'); reports ~50 Indians (10 men + families) came wanting to found a settlement at 'Tzitalume' near Santa Rosa, with more waiting — weighs Petaluma & Santa Rosa as sites for large pueblos ('Sta Rosa es mucho buena'), too late this year for a garrison; ⭐⭐ Vallejo's own pro-secularization exclamation: 'Gracias á Dios que empiezan las Misiones ó sus dueños á entrar en el goce de sus derechos civiles… librándolos de las garras de los Misioneros' (the friars = 'los tontos'; emancipation dries up the missions' 'manantial de gente y de pesos')

Date	1833-10-03 (exact)
From	M. G. Vallejo (San Francisco)
To	Figueroa
Series	State Papers, Missions and Colonization
Tomo	II
Original tomo page	p.316–318 (Sav. pp. 505–9)
Savage copy page	230–232
Scan leaf	n228–230
Document type	abstract (corr.)
Source	Savage abstract

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M. G. Vallejo (San Francisco) to Figueroa, 1833-10-03, State Papers, Missions and Colonization, II, p.316–318 (Sav. pp. 505–9), Archives of California, C-A 53, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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