C-A 22 · Provincial Records, Tomos I

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

• 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 ↗
• 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 ↗
• 1781-01-20 · Felipe de Neve to the Comandante General — 1781 En.o 20 Monterey / (Neve al Com. G.l ) Despacho, informes, situacion de pueblos y un presidio [Neve to the Comandante General: a commission, reports, the siting of two pueblos and of a presidio.] Heading and opening are on n257; the abstract runs on to n258 and closes there with the cite pp.107-113. Contents: he has received the… (orig. pp. 107-113) manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-05-07 · Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga to Hermenegildo Sal — 1794 Monterey / Arrillaga á Sal [Arrillaga to Hermenegildo Sal.] Mayo 7 (5 doc.), pp. 599-602. Heading and opening on n365, continuing and closing on n366. Enterado que consiguió 63 Indios á mas de los que refiere p.a la prosecucion de la obra del baluarte y que los P.P. solicitan alg.a gratificac.n p.a los Indios trabajadores á mas de… (orig. pp. 599-602) manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-06-10 · Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga to Hermenegildo Sal — 1794 Mis.n S. Fran.co / Arrillaga á Sal [Arrillaga to Hermenegildo Sal.] Jun. 10, pp. 602-3, verbatim: Que puede tomar clavazon de la pertenec.te al establec.to de Bodega (que ya no se verifica por ahora) p.a el baluarte. The nails set aside for the projected Bodega establishment, now stated not to be going ahead for the present, are… (orig. pp. 602-3) 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 ↗
• 1794-09-12 · Arrillaga (Loreto) → Hermenegildo Sal (Comte de S. Francisco) — Cattle-increase to soldiers ('que el aumento de ganado á los soldados sea proporcionado á que no abandonen sus obligaciones'); ⭐⭐ approves the proceeding against a Russian ship-captain ('el capitán Ruso') for carrying off 2 Christian Indian women — an early Russian-contact incident, leaf-verified n357 (Set. 12, 1794); ⭐ orders soldiers… (orig. p. II:560–563) 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 ↗
• 1775-09-08 · Felipe de Neve (gobernador) to the Virrey — 1775_ Sbre 8_ Loreto / Neve al Virey. Diezmos. [Gov. Felipe de Neve to the Viceroy, on tithes.] Savage transcribes Art. 7 of the Instruccion drawn up for this Peninsula by Jose de Galvez on granting solares and lands to the new settlers of the southern part: Despues de los 3 años satisfacerán los diezmos á S.M. p.a q. los aplique segun… (orig. pp. 372-73) manuscript scan ↗
• 1792 · Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga (gobernador interino, Loreto) to Hermenegildo Sal (comandante de San Francisco) — 1792 (Loreto) / (Arrillaga al Com.te de S. Fran.co Herm.do Sal) [Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga, governor ad interim at Loreto, to Hermenegildo Sal, comandante of San Francisco: Savage calendar of the run.] The heading leaf and the run it opens were uncatalogued. Year read as 1792: the final digit is a looped 2, plainly unlike the crossed 4… (orig. pp. 556-571) manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-03-20 · Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga to Jose Perez Fernandez (comandante de San Francisco) — 1794 Monterey / (Arrillaga al Com.te de S. Fran.co José Perez Fern.z) [Arrillaga to Jose Perez Fernandez, comandante of San Francisco.] Feb. 10, pp. 596-7, recibió doc.tos, sin int.s; Mzo 5, p. 597, recibió doc.tos; Mzo 20, pp. 597-9, verbatim: Que los ocho Indios que se aprehendieron por hacer daño en el ganado de Sta Clara se apliquen… (orig. pp. 596-9) 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 ↗
• 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 ↗
• 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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