VERIFIED vs scan n124. Header verbatim: 'Relación de los Presidiarios destinados á la Alta California…

State Papers, Sacramento, tomo X–XIX · BANC MSS C-A 56, document 146

✓ VERIFIED vs scan n124 (2026-07-06). Header verbatim: 'Relación de los Presidiarios destinados á la Alta California con expresión de los Estados en donde fueron sentenciados, sus condenas y tiempo en que comenzaron á cumplir[la].' Register of the convicts (*presidiarios*) by state of origin (Guanajuato, Michoacán, San Luis Potosí…), each w/ name, sentence (2–6 yrs shown) and the date they began serving ✎ *(the column is 'cuando empezó su prisión' = imprisonment-start 1827–29, NOT 'crime date')*; ~70+ named men (Nabor Bias, Francisco Marmolejo, Octaviano Espinosa, Césares Sánchez, Juan de la Cruz Mata, Atanasio Gallardo…). Cross-link: Marmolejo + Espinosa + Césares Sánchez here = the same three men in the C-A 20 (Doc 226) causa (Guanajuato robbery of 3 May 1829, 6-yr Alta-CA sentences). The definitive California-as-penal-colony roster

Date(n.d., c.1829–30) (year)
Placeunsigned
SeriesState Papers, Sacramento
TomoX–XIX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo pageXI·(to 167)
Savage copy page125–127
Scan leafn124–126
Document typeabstract (register)
SourceSavage abstract

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How to cite this documentunsigned, (n.d., c.1829–30), State Papers, Sacramento, X–XIX, XI·(to 167), Archives of California, C-A 56, 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 X–XIX]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/ca56/ca56-d146.html
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