*Sobre creación de una Escolta* — establishes an escolta at Mission San José del Cabo (4 men + cabo + 2 vecinos) for night-and-day coastal watch against enemies (the cape near San Lucas, 30 leagues from the Sgt. at Real de Santa Ana): to drive off livestock from raiders & keep anyone from approaching the coast to be seized; only 9 shotguns for 120+ able men in the South, so sent 40 shotguns + 2,000 cartridges; vecinos rotate guard every 15 days, fed cimarrón-cattle meat
| Date | 1797-05-24 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Arrillaga |
| To | Borica |
| Place | Loreto |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | XVI |
| Original tomo page | 330–332 |
| Scan leaf | n113–n114 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Arrillaga to Borica, Loreto, 1797-05-24, Provincial State Papers, XVI, 330–332, Archives of California, C-A 9, 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/ca9/ca9-d183.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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