C-A 22 · Provincial Records, Tomos I

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Notable documents

• 1793–94 · Arrillaga → Argüello — Permitted two London merchant ships water & wood; ⭐⭐⭐ the 5 English deserters not to be handed to any British ship but Vancouver's — and not even to him without paying their costs; ⭐ weaver-master Antonio Domingo Enríquez to teach the natives; ⭐⭐ an English sloop en route to Nootka — no contact/commerce, water & wood freely but… (orig. p. II:664–672) manuscript scan ↗
• 1793 · Arrillaga (Monterey) → Com.te de SF — Artisans destined for the establishment of the port of Bodega; fragata *Aranzazú* brings powder; 30 breaking-colts; punish recruit Francisco González; remit unusable cannon & pedreros to San Blas; ⭐ aprehensión de Charquín (cf. C-A 55 Doc 212); ⭐⭐ Lt. de Fragata Juan Matute decides to retire from Bodega with his ship, troops & artisans… (orig. p. II:585–589) manuscript scan ↗
• 1784-11-15 · Fages → Com. Gral — [6 docs] ⭐⭐⭐ Foreigner-exclusion order (foreigners not tolerated, esp. in the ports — arrest the unlicensed, penalize & deport to Spain; 'actualmente no existe ninguno'); ⭐⭐⭐ warning that a foreign power is sending disguised commissioners to incite the inhabitants to revolt — arrest any found/arriving; deserter Hermenegildo Flores killed… (orig. p. 488–492) manuscript scan ↗
• 1784-11-20 · Fages → Com. Gral — *Cosechas y ganado*: Los Ángeles harvest 1,800 fanegas, all houses + guard + Casa de Ayuntamiento finished, church building (all adobe); F. Sinova[?] & Manuel Butrón resettled (Butrón → San José); ⭐⭐ first (interim) rancho grants — Juan José Domínguez (ex-SD soldier; 4 mare-herds + ~200 cattle, below the San Gabriel river → Rancho San… (orig. p. 495–496) manuscript scan ↗
• 1794 · Arrillaga (Monterey) → Goycoechea — [Jan–Jul cluster] memorias; ajustes/permutas; ⭐ 'only 4 vacas chichiguas (milk-cows) per soldier'; accounts; Tapia to SD; ⭐ fuga de gentiles (3 docs); Easter compliance; herradores; ⭐ May 24 marriage licence; ⭐ death & testament of Ignacio Olivera; Tribunal; Jul 5 Olivera's goods; Jul 16 tithe accounts 1791–92 (orig. p. 608–618) manuscript scan ↗
• 1786 · Fages (Monterey) → Com. Gral — Cattle-increase to soldiers; ⭐⭐ approves the proceeding against a foreign[?] ('Ruso[?]') ship-captain for carrying off 2 Christian Indian women [1786 — ⚠️ verify reading; possibly a La-Pérouse-era foreign vessel]; ⭐ orders soldiers not punished with cueras while on sentinel; a mission (Sta Cruz/Clara[?]) relocated to a less flood-prone… (orig. p. II:550–553) manuscript scan ↗
• 1793–94 · Arrillaga (Monterey) → Argüello — Cantero Santiago Ruiz + 2 officials to finish the church; artisan-instruction; ⭐ hospitality to foreign ships 'con la cautela debida (pues fácilmente pueden aparentar)'; ⭐⭐⭐ reimbursement for the supplies furnished to the ships under Juan [Bodega] de la Cuadra and two under Vancouver — see Entry 23 (orig. p. II:660–664) manuscript scan ↗
• 1794 / 1793 · Arrillaga → Argüello — Collect papers from León Parrilla's house; ⭐ arms-relación to Monterey (41 escopetas/40 espadas/52 lanzas → ≈$775); ⭐ 11 'seditious' Indians from San Luis, take their declarations; ⭐ the six Vancouver deserters (rations) — LAST LEAVES of Vol. II [= the gap-sample rows 323–324, now read systematically] (orig. p. II:685–689) manuscript scan ↗
• 1778-08 · Neve → Com. Gral — Pueblo de San José: 26½ fanegas maize sown, most lost (no water until 12 Jul); Lt. José Moraga commissioned to settle the pobladores; bad land-distribution near Mission Santa Clara — reordered; ⭐ the mission *Ministros*, esp. P. Junípero Serra, oppose the civil pueblos (Serra's plan that the missions supply the presidios), which Neve… (orig. p. 159–161) manuscript scan ↗
• 1778-10-15 · Neve → Com. Gral — [5 docs] ⭐⭐ The King has NOT accepted 'his' resignation of the government — asks that the *memoriales* sent to that end not be forwarded [subject still unstated — cf. Docs 111/120; outcome now known: refused]; Montepío *ingresos* order; ⭐ bando prohibiting the purchase from the troops of service articles (anti-corruption); copies re the… (orig. p. 188–191) manuscript scan ↗
• 1778-12-28 · Neve → Com. Gral — On the Reglamento governing this Peninsula (genesis: RO 21 May 1775 to revise the defective Reglamento) + full comparative establishment/budget for all 4 presidios ('Conforme al Reglamento' vs 'Actual pié'), mission escoltas, the Loreto Departamento de Marina (balandra *Pilar*, launches *Sta Lucía* & *San Juan Nepomuceno*; ~$16,393),… (orig. p. 192–199, then 100–118 [renum.] (=tomo 194–225)) manuscript scan ↗
• 1775-08-06 · Neve → Virrey — Ship news (barco at SD, not yet Monterey); receipt of 89+25 mules & cattle to SD (via P. Vicente de Mora); ⭐ Indian attacks — Lt. Ortega: the mail-soldiers from Viñadaco attacked by gentiles Santa Ysabel→El Mégano[?], pursued 30 leguas (order: no mail with fewer than 5 men); the SD *recua* & escort attacked by gentiles in the Sta Bárbara… (orig. p. 335–339) manuscript scan ↗
• 1784-05-30 · Fages → Com. Gral — The San José pueblo dam carried off by the river — to rebuild it of *cal y canto*; San José's settlers more negligent than those of Los Ángeles; ⭐ Mission Santa Clara's adobe church completed (timbered roof); ⭐ death of Fr. José Antonio Murguía (Santa Clara's principal minister) on 11 May 1784 (orig. p. 458–459) manuscript scan ↗
• 1784-04-18 · José Fran.co de Ortega → Fages — Report on the Pueblo de la Reina de los Ángeles: 38 fan. wheat sown (33 común, 2 particular), 12 maize, 8 frijol to come; irrigation from 2 leguas of good salt-free land; the gentiles helped plow/sow but now refuse (busy harvesting wild seeds); buildings strong under encargado Vicente Felix; ⭐ the town plaza & streets laid out per the… (orig. p. 462–464) manuscript scan ↗
• 1793-08-11 · Arrillaga (San Francisco) → Goycoechea — 'Instrucciones sobre la expedición á Bodega': the force = 10 soldiers + 1 sergeant; go 'con precaución' and harm no gentiles; if they go with Matute (who should be at Bodega); reconnoiter all the surroundings of the fort — see Entry 23 (orig. p. 599–601) manuscript scan ↗
• 1793-11-14 · Arrillaga (Monterey) → Goycoechea — If Vancouver's English ships arrive pretexting *víveres ó aguada*, give them none — 'pues ya les ofreció y no aceptaron' — see Entry 23 (orig. p. 604–605) manuscript scan ↗
• 1793 · Arrillaga (San Diego) → Cap. J. Ortega — [May–Jul cluster] Viceroy requests iron/steel; powder; ⭐ Eugenio Olachea mismanaged the Hacienda (his sons defrauded silver + 11 arrobas mercury); Arsenal works/excursion south/artillery report; ⭐ approves Ortega's reply to the Guadalajara Factor on the powder & playing-card monopoly; ⭐ wreck of the schooner *Santa Gertrudis* (iron… (orig. p. 623–631) manuscript scan ↗
• 1780-10/11 · Neve (San Diego) → Virrey / Com. Gral — Camacho (Loreto soldier) incest causa w/ his aunt María Guadalupe [= Vol I Doc 134 draft]; *Santiago* arrival; Monterey/SF/SD guarda-almacén accounts; ⭐⭐ RO re (British) Admiral Hughes communicated to SD, to be executed at Monterey & SF (foreign-naval alert); deserters Joaquín Diez Díaz & Rafael Valenzuela to Loreto; tobacco bando (orig. p. II:89–96) manuscript scan ↗
• 1781-11-18 · Neve (San Gabriel) → Com. Gral — 'Antecedentes de una mortandad' — the causes of the 1781 Yuma Revolt: at the expedition's passage through Jalchedun lands the captain took gentile/Christian women; Rivera failed to gift the Yuma chief Palma; the expedition's mules destroyed the mesquite the Yumas live on part of the year → 'apostasía y rebelión'; a Yuma (Limón[?]) killed… (orig. p. II:213–216) manuscript scan ↗
• 1784 · Fages (Monterey) → Virrey — Docs/embarcación; ⭐ asks surgeon & munitions; 3 sailors to build the Sta Bárbara presidio walls; ⭐ Fages entered the Cal. government 10 Sept 1782; tabacos/fierro/acero/tejas; 88 war-supply cases (double requested); escopetas urgent ('no armorers'); ⭐ labor shortage — asks San Blas send 'algún indio próximo sin vicios, y si dable gente de… (orig. p. II:335–352) manuscript scan ↗
• 1785 · Fages (Monterey) → Com. Gral — 'Quietud de Indios/Gentiles en la Península'; ⭐ death of José [Joaquín] Moraga, SF commander (Habilitación to Ramón Lasso, arms to Diego González); ⭐ Ignacio Vallejo's water-source/rancho near San José; ⭐ Sebastián Alvitre (the 1775 rape-case man) sentenced to a *grillete*, sells his goods, transferred with his cattle to Los Ángeles (orig. p. II:411–413) manuscript scan ↗
• 1793 · Arrillaga (SD/Sta Bárbara) → Com.te de SF / Com. Gral — 'Que se informe sobre los dos barcos ingleses'; orders re the English balandra & fragata (Vancouver's *Discovery* & *Chatham*) at port & Monterey — handle 'con prudencia… buen modo,' but force if needed; only the ship's commander may land letters; disembarking prohibited per standing orders [augments Entry 23 — Arrillaga/Vancouver… (orig. p. II:573–580) manuscript scan ↗
• 1794 · Arrillaga (Monterey) → Pérez Fernández — Herradero; ⭐ artisans (Leocadio Martínez, Manuel Dorotea[?]); presidiario José Ocampo; ⭐ tanner Miguel Sangrador to be employed; ⭐ Tte Diego González retires (inválido) to the Real del Rosario, Sonora; descuentos to artisans (orig. p. II:647–650) manuscript scan ↗
• 1793–94 · Arrillaga (Sta Bárbara/Monterey/SF) → Argüello / León Parrilla — León Parrilla provisional Tte of the SF company (arms & habilitación); ⭐ weaver-instruction contract (Antonio Domingo Enríquez, 12 r/day, 4 yrs, to teach the Naturales); Pablo Grijalva's illness; Sgt Manuel Vargas inválido cédula (Revillagigedo); ⭐ the Indian Sósimo Berrón[?] killed a woman & dashed a little daughter — apprehended (orig. p. II:677–685) manuscript scan ↗

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