«Estado de las misiones de Baja California»: exorbitant sums on ~30 missionaries/missions for only 4,442 souls; poor yields; argues to reduce/suppress missions lacking land/water (to 300 families each) & relocate the Indians; no need to send for more missionaries from Spain; «el falso concepto que hicieron formar de la Cal. los interesados»
| Date | 1792 (year) |
|---|---|
| From | Fray Domingo de Gandarias[?] (Dominican Prior Provincial) |
| To | Virrey |
| Place | [Baja Cal.] |
| Series | Archives of California, Miscellaneous |
| Tomo | — |
| Original tomo page | p.748–752 |
| Savage copy page | 43–45 |
| Scan leaf | n42–n44 |
| Document type | verbatim copy |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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How to cite this document
Fray Domingo de Gandarias[?] (Dominican Prior Provincial) to Virrey, [Baja Cal.], 1792, Miscellaneous, —, p.748–752, 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-d24.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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