Records408
Item-level408
Span1790–1822
Leaves307
Coveragecomplete
Manuscript scans: this volume on the Internet Archive (digitized microfilm of the Savage transcripts).
Printable finding aid (PDF) — the full one-line record list with provenance, for offline use and circulation.
Notable documents
- 1817 · Guaymas — Wilcocks's 'historia exacta' (autobiographical voyage account, for Cordero/the Viceroy): bought the schooner in China, sailed Sep 1815 to Port Jackson [Sydney], then a Pacific port closed to foreign trade (castle fired on him as he fled by night; he returned 2 shots, did no harm); provisioned from whalers at the Galápagos; via Guaymas &… (orig. p. xx.716–726) manuscript scan ↗
- 1818-10-08 · Monterey — Gov. Solá → the presidio commandants — the foundational Bouchard-defense circular + full mobilization/evacuation *ordenanza* (signed Monterey 8 Oct 1818). Warning (via Guerra, from an American ship): 2 pirate frigates (34 guns / 18–20 guns, 350 men) left the Sandwich Islands, bound for this coast in 4–6 days. Plan: secure all church… (orig. p. xx.1090–1093) manuscript scan ↗
- 1817 (reports Guad. 20 May & 17 Jul 1817) · Guadalajara — Habilitado-general dossier ('copia de los documentos citados en la pág. 188') — Gervasio Argüello's reports to Viceroy Apodaca & the Real Hacienda ministers: presented the 1815 *revista* extracts + artillery request, asking a year's pay on account; ⭐⭐ states the troops have had no *socorros* for 6 years, 'ellas y sus familias están en… (orig. p. xx.811–812) manuscript scan ↗
- 1819-03-22 · México — Conde del Venadito → Solá — the COLONEL-PROMOTION letter (= expanded Document 3 below; its page cite is corrected here from i.192–197). Acknowledges Solá's reports nº 174 (4 Nov) & nº 177 (12 Dec 1818) warning of two insurgent frigates preparing in the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii] to invade, and the attack on Monterey presidio after 18 Nov;… (orig. p. xx.210–216 & 244–249 (en duplicado)) manuscript scan ↗
- 1790-10-25 (copied 1814-04-15) · México (orig. Madrid) — Reserved instructions (Conde de Floridablanca) accompanying the NOOTKA CONVENTION of 1790 with England. Orders the Viceroy to ensure British subjects 'no se excedan de su literal contexto'; the convention does not alter the prior Costa de Honduras logwood/mahogany (*palo de tinte / caoba*) arrangement with the British 'colonos'; arts. 3,… (orig. p. xx.368–369) manuscript scan ↗
- 1817-12-12 · Guaymas — Santiago Smith Wilcocks → Gov. Solá: his schooner was seized & he is a prisoner at Guaymas; 'el malvado Ramírez' robbed a large part of his cargo to condemn the ship 'by licit means'; ⭐ denounces the slander that he meant 'levantarme con las Californias para integrarlas a los anglo-americanos mis paisanos' (to seize the Californias and… (orig. p. xx.~716) manuscript scan ↗
- 1817-02-02 · Novo-Arkhangelsk — RAC diplomatic protest — Alexander Baranov (Gov.-Gen. of the Russian American Possessions, Collegiate Counsellor, Knight of St. Anne 2nd Cl.) → Gov. Solá: protests 'insults to the Russian flag and the capture and keeping in cruel bondage of Russians and other people subject to our august Monarch… in the waters and coasts of California,'… (orig. p. xx.866–870) manuscript scan ↗
- 1817 · (Monterey) — Gov. Solá → Luis Argüello: re buying from the RAC frigate 'Kutusoff' (cmdr. Hagemeister) — it has many goods; deal to buy ~$25,000[?] on draft against the *habilitación general*, goods for the troops & families of the four presidios at fair prices; ⭐ but the Kodiaks the frigate wants to take back are only four (some at Sta Bárbara,… (orig. p. xx.884) manuscript scan ↗
- 1817 · Monterey — Seizure inventory of Tarasov's & the Aleuts' effects — from Sgt. Carlos Carrillo, captured at the Ensenada de San Pedro from 'the diver called Boris, with twelve cayucos': 3 sacks rice, 2 tobacco, *bayetón*, purple China ribbon, blue cloth; ⭐ 2 small bags + 40 otter pelts (*pieles de Nutria*), 5 sea-lion skins, 12 gut-shirts (kamleikas),… (orig. p. xx.885–886) manuscript scan ↗
- 1818-11-24 · Santa Bárbara — Guerra → Solá: sends a reinforcement — Lt. Ignacio Martínez setting out at 8 AM with whatever people he can gather (Indians, non-capital prisoners offered the King's pardon if they fight with honor); ⭐ many unarmed (only fine cavalry muskets here; can be fitted with pikes/lances, 'la mejor arma' for them); 'yo quedo sin ninguna… el Señor… (orig. p. xx.1044–1045) manuscript scan ↗
- 1818-11-27 · Rancho de la Real Hacienda — Gov. Solá → the Fathers from San Luis to San Diego (circular): the rebels [Bouchard] hold the Monterey establishment/beach without daring to approach Mission San Carlos; yesterday set fire to the Castillo & Presidio [of Monterey]; keep lookouts, relay their course. ⭐ Followed by the missions' acknowledgment-relay chain with timestamps —… (orig. p. xx.1049–1051) manuscript scan ↗
- 1819-06-08 · San Blas — Instructions for the relief-expedition ships 'San Carlos' (war-brig) & 'Reina de los Ángeles' (armed merchant frigate) — to relieve Alta Calif. (attacked Nov 1818 by 2 rebel frigates) w/ 100 troops + artillery; ⭐ detailed sailing orders (route via the Socorro Islands, approach San Francisco to avoid falling leeward of Monterey, avoid any… (orig. p. xx.1086–1099) manuscript scan ↗
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