THE CANNON-BURST — see Entry 11. During the fiesta of the patron saint (Llagas de San Francisco)…

THE CANNON-BURST — see Entry 11. During the fiesta of the patron saint (Llagas de San Francisco), 'reventó un cañón, sin causar daño, y se hizo diez pedazos' (a cannon burst, harming no one, blown into ten pieces), some fragments reaching the church, 125 *varas* away; fired by soldier Alejandro Arriola

Date	1792-09-30 (exact)
From	Hermenegildo Sal (San Francisco)
To	Arrillaga
Series	State Papers, Sacramento
Tomo	VI–IX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo page	p.i.323–324
Savage copy page	74
Scan leaf	n73
Document type	abstract
Source	Savage abstract

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Hermenegildo Sal (San Francisco) to Arrillaga, 1792-09-30, State Papers, Sacramento, p.i.323–324, Archives of California, C-A 55, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within VI–IX]

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Correction to this entry.

Previously read Fragments of the burst cannon reached the church, “145 varas” away.. Full-resolution re-read of the leaf: “… algunos de los cuales llegaron hasta la Yglesia, 125 varas; lo disparó Sold.o Alejandro Arriola.” The figure is 125, not 145.

The 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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