The 1774 order to OCCUPY THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO VERBATIM: «tengo ya resuelto la ocupación del Puerto de San Francisco»; lays out the Anza colonizing expedition (Anza from Tubac; recruit 28 volunteer families in Sonora ~100 persons; provisioned a year via San Blas/Hijosa); the sovereignty-marking rationale («una señal constante y cierta de corresponder á la dominación del Rey») + evangelización; charges Fr. Junípero [Serra] to pick the missionaries; Anza to reconnoiter the Río de San Francisco
| Date | 1774-12-15 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Virrey Bucareli y Ursúa |
| To | Fernando de Rivera y Moncada |
| Place | México |
| Series | Archives of California, Miscellaneous |
| Tomo | — |
| Original tomo page | p.— |
| Savage copy page | II·20–23 |
| Scan leaf | n66–n69 |
| Document type | verbatim copy |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Virrey Bucareli y Ursúa to Fernando de Rivera y Moncada, México, 1774-12-15, Miscellaneous, —, p.—, 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-d52.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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