LA diary Feb: nada notable. Cota diary: recorrer escoltas Norte, nada notable. Ruiz diary San Vicente

LA diary Feb: nada notable. Cota diary: recorrer escoltas Norte, nada notable. Ruiz diary San Vicente: nothing except Innocencio Mesa + wife murdered by gentiles Jul 11; retaliatory killing because 'un padre antes había matado algunos gentiles de este Valle'

Date	1797-02/04 (month)
From	Alvarado, LA; Cota, SB; Ruiz, San Vicente
Series	Provincial State Papers
Tomo	XV
Original tomo page	p.589–598
Savage copy page	391
Scan leaf	n390–391
Document type	diary-abstract
Source	Savage abstract

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Alvarado, LA; Cota, SB; Ruiz, San Vicente, 1797-02/04, Provincial State Papers, XV, p.589–598, Archives of California, C-A 8, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Correction to this entry.

Previously read date_text: '1797-02/04'; summary: 'LA diary Feb: nada notable. Cota diary: recorrer escoltas Norte, nada notable. Ruiz diary San Vicente: nothing except Innocencio Mesa + wife murdered by gentiles Jul 11; retaliator…'. Leaves read: 168036075_79_10 n390 (stamp '391', ink hand '196') and n391 (stamp '392', ink hand '197'). savage_page 391 is exact, and all three diaries sit on n390 alone, footing pp 589-590, pp 591-4 and pp 595-8, so orig_page p.589-598 is exact. SCAN_PIN = PARTIAL: the document is on the first cited leaf, but the span overstates by one leaf, since n391 is wholly the next record's (three separate Ruiz-to-Borica letters, pp 599-600, 602-3, 604-5, catalogued as d378). DATE = WRONG: recorded '1797-02/04', but the headings read '1797 Feb 28 Pueblo de los Angeles', '1797 Feb. 16 Sta Barbara' and '1797 Ag.t 5 S.n Vicente'; the third is August, not April, so the true range is Feb-Aug. AUTHOR = PARTIAL: given names and ranks are dropped; the leaf reads 'Javier Alvarado', 'Pablo Cota' ('Su diario como alferez de la compañia de Sta Barbara') and 'Sarg.to José Fran.co Ruiz'. PLACE = PARTIAL (place column empty; the three places are folded into the author string). RECIPIENT = NA: these are submitted diaries with no addressee in any heading. SUMMARY = WRONG on two points, both inside what reads as a quotation. The leaf reads: 'Nada digno de mención excepto que Inocencio Mesa salió con su mujer el 11 de Julio y los gentiles lo mataron porque su padre antes havia matado algunos gentiles de este Valle.' First, 'lo mataron' is singular: only Mesa is said to be killed, not 'Mesa + wife murdered'. The catalogue's own d379 confirms it, recording that 'Mesa's widow identified the killer'. Second, the catalogue quotes 'un padre antes había matado algunos gentiles de este Valle'; the leaf plainly reads 'su padre', that is Mesa's own father, so the motive is a family vendetta, not a killing by a mission priest. That single letter reverses the meaning of the sentence. Omissions OK: n390 holds only these three diaries and all three are described.

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