Serra's clemency letter after the 1775 SD Mission revolt — ✎ RE-READ AT FULL RES 2026-07-05 (verification pass): Savage's header = 'Sobre que se imponga leve castigo á indios' (✎ not '[poco]'). Against sending the gathered Monterey/SD presidio forces to 'escarmentar á los culpados y reprimir las fuerzas enemigas' (fearing 'despechos y mayores daños, como sucedió en semejantes casos'); the murdered padre left 'gozando de Dios'; ⚠ the famous phrase attaches to the surviving PADRES in this copy — 'á los ^P.P.^ qᵉ quedaran vivos, nos procurasen aguardar [sic] como las niñas de los ojos de Dios' (interlinear 'P.P.'; ✎ NOT 'the guilty who remain alive' as earlier read); and the wrongdoers' clause runs 'á los malhechores se les perdonase la culpa CON UN MODERADO CASTIGO, con lo qᵉ los verían practicar la ley que les enseñaban, de volver bien por mal' — pardon *with moderate punishment*, not unconditional. ⚠ Collate w/ Tibesar before quoting → see Entry 3
| Date | 1776-10-05 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Fr. Junípero Serra ('Junípero Sierra' [sic], San Diego) |
| To | 'Franᶜᵒ Rivera y Moncada' [sic — Fernando] |
| Series | State Papers, Sacramento |
| Tomo | X–XIX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | XV·153–154 |
| Savage copy page | 283–284 |
| Scan leaf | n282–283 |
| Document type | verbatim (letter) |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
Read this leaf on the Internet Archive ↗ · leaf n282–283
Fr. Junípero Serra ('Junípero Sierra' [sic], San Diego) to 'Franᶜᵒ Rivera y Moncada' [sic — Fernando], 1776-10-05, State Papers, Sacramento, X–XIX, XV·153–154, 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-d315.html- Previously read Serra 1776 header first read "[poco/ningún] castigo.". "Sobre que se imponga leve castigo á indios" — leve, re-read at full resolution.