THE FRENCH-CONSUL PROPERTY-SEIZURE DOSSIER (running Spanish, 'Doctº en francés' — fuller than doc 191): (a) Moerenhout → Mason (28 Sep 1847), 'sobre abuso de estrangeros' — remits 2 letters from French employees of Juan Bautista Alvarado at the Misión de San José re grave acts at that mission, so provisions be taken to prevent French there from resorting to vías de hecho; (b) Vioget[?] → Moerenhout (25 Sep 1847): guarding Alvarado's viña, saw 3 men cutting grapes; when confronted they fired — one George Alan & Enrique/Henry Smith had had the governor's order to leave the Mission San José vineyard, taken to the room of said George Alan; (c) full Spanish narrative of Smith's armed intrusions, robbery, threats 'con una pistola,' & the mob threatening to hang him from a tree, begging the Gov. to intervene lest he must take all measures to defend his life & the property he administers; (d) Moerenhout → Mason (22 Dec 1848) re naming Étienne Jourdain French vice-consular agent at Yerba Buena; (e) Moerenhout → Kearny (28 May 1847) remitting Olivier's claim (French resident of Monterey) to the San Juan mission vineyard, held by titles anterior to the U.S. occupation, incontestable & equal to other mission-property owners' rights under the secularization law
| Date | 1847-09→1848 (month) |
|---|---|
| From | J.L. Moerenhout (Cónsul francés) ↔ Gobs Mason / Kearny |
| Place | Monterey / Yerba Buena / San José |
| Series | Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents |
| Tomo | Unbound |
| Original tomo page | — |
| Savage copy page | 282 |
| Scan leaf | n284–288 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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J.L. Moerenhout (Cónsul francés) ↔ Gobs Mason / Kearny, Monterey / Yerba Buena / San José, 1847-09→1848, Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents, Unbound, —, Archives of California, C-A 63, 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/ca63/ca63-d416.html