'Sobre buques piratas' — the Bouchard-raid defense mobilization: per Capt. José de la Guerra's letter, two frigates (34 & 18 guns, 250 crew ('ambas con 250 hombres de tripulacion')) sailed from the Sandwich Islands for California, known via an American ship to be pirates; orders — hide gold/silver & church vessels/vestments in interior missions; ready families to evacuate women/children/elderly; drive off livestock; Capt. Luis Argüello (SF) to mount the men; form a flying party under an officer; 500 cartridges to Monterey [cf. ]
| Date | 1818-10-08 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Solá (Mont.) |
| To | Comte. de Presidios |
| Series | State Papers, Sacramento |
| Tomo | VI–IX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p.viii.549–550 |
| Savage copy page | 292–293 |
| Scan leaf | n291–n292 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Solá (Mont.) to Comte. de Presidios, 1818-10-08, State Papers, Sacramento, p.viii.549–550, 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]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/ca55/ca55-d339.htmlThe 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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