C-A 30 · Departmental State Papers, Tomos V–VI

Volume 30 of the Archives of California (BANC MSS C-A, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley) — Thomas Savage’s 1876–77 copies of the Spanish/Mexican-era government records of Alta California. The originals burned in 1906; these transcripts are the sole record. ← Search the full catalog · All volumes
Records528
Span1828–1846
Leaves308
Coveragecomplete
Coverage: FULL item-level read n0–n307 (Tomo V Docs 1–209, Tomo VI 210–531). ⚠ CORRECTED 2026-08-02 (published a381209b→c49ffac1): the back half n194–n307 is NOT documento doble — the 2026-07-17 sample was wrong. A verify-read (gap-read audit) recovered 202 genuinely-new 1845–46 Pico-era Tomo VI documents (Docs 330–531; only ~5 true dobles): Indian-raiding seam (Pico 'savages of the North'/Castro–Gantt/Marsh bounty/Sutter battle report/Wakara), Elijah White Oregon dossier, Sutter–RAC $30k debt, Castillero/New Almadén, García Diego mission-collapse, Yerba Buena alcalde crisis. 329→528 records live. ⚠ leaf-verify before quoting: Doc 327/328 transcription divergences (Baltasar/Baburia; otters/goats). See [[gap-read-verification-2026-07-27]]. (“partial” = routine runs bounded, not itemized — significant documents are.)

Manuscript scans: this volume on the Internet Archive (digitized microfilm of the Savage transcripts).

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