THE 1769 FIRST-LAND-DIVISION DIARY (Sacred Expedition) VERBATIM: Rivera's company marches Velicatá→San Diego (121 leguas), arrives 14 May 1769, sights the packetboats *San Carlos* & *El Príncipe*, finds all the maritime officers sick with scurvy; helps unload the *Príncipe* (17 May–28 Jun); ⭐ Gov. Portolá arrives 29 Jun and decides to push north by land despite the ships' delay, leaving an 8-soldier escort at the nascent Mission San Diego; diary closed 3 Jul 1769 — a founding-of-Alta-California primary source
| Date | 1769-05-14/07-03 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José de Cañizares (copy of Fernando de Rivera y Moncada's expedition diary) |
| Place | San Diego |
| Series | Archives of California, Miscellaneous |
| Tomo | — |
| Original tomo page | p.350–371 |
| Savage copy page | 19–21 |
| Scan leaf | n18–n20 |
| Document type | verbatim copy |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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How to cite this document
José de Cañizares (copy of Fernando de Rivera y Moncada's expedition diary), San Diego, 1769-05-14/07-03, Miscellaneous, —, p.350–371, Archives of California, C-A 62, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.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/ca62/ca62-d20.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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