Records43
Item-level43
Span1779–1804
Leaves391
Coveragecomplete
Coverage: Every distinct document itemized; long printed laws (1779 Reglamento etc.) carried as single records. (“partial” = routine runs bounded, not itemized — significant documents are.)
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
- 1781-05-08 · Gov. Felipe de Neve — Instrucción for founding the pueblos of gente de razón — settler pay/ración, term, auxilios, distribution of solares + suertes, obligations 'con fuerza de Ordenanza' (jacal houses, acequias/zanja madre, community sowing, cabildo). Preceded by an Ortega *filiación* of pobladores (n100) (orig. p. 102–116) manuscript scan ↗
- 1793-12-30 · Virrey Conde de Revillagigedo — general report on the missions of New Spain incl. Baja + Alta California (400+ ¶): history (1751 R.O. → Matías de Gálvez 1784 → Fiscal Posada); Baja CA (Jesuit 1697 → 15 missions → Marqués de Sonora suppresses 3 → Franciscans 1767 → Dominicans 1772); Alta CA (incl. 1775 San Diego revolt; livestock/harvest stats); ⭐⭐⭐ ¶423 opposes… (orig. p. 3–30) manuscript scan ↗
- 1803-08-26 · José Argüello (San Francisco) → Gov. Arrillaga — two American frigates at SF — *Alexander* (Capt. John Brown) & *Hazard* — forced out with no trade (Alexander sailed 12th, Hazard 13th; resupplied w/ 2 calves + flour, paid; Argüello's cavalry away at Cerro Bocanegra / Sierra de San José); encloses Brown's 2 replies (orig. p. 85–88) manuscript scan ↗
- 1803-08-12 · Capt. John Brown (San Francisco) → José Argüello — narrative of battles with armed NW-Coast Indians — req. permission to repair his frigate; no water ('Indios tan bárbaros'); 1st battle at 'Pto de Tequin,' Chatham Strait (300 attackers w/ 2–3 muskets each, pistols, daggers; 3 assaults/day repelled); a cove w/ ~1,000 Indians; the chief 'Piecque' ('hombre malo') summoned all Indians 'desde… (orig. p. 89–95) manuscript scan ↗
- 1781-11-19 · (Pueblo de los Ángeles padrón) — founding CENSUS of the Pueblo de la Reina de los Ángeles, 'fundado el 4 de Set.e de 1781' — each vecino by name, age, wife, sons/daughters + 'calidad de Gente' (casta: Español/Mestizo/Indio/Mulato/Negro/China/India-'Bengal'); Nota: primeros pobladores given suertes (2 fanegas maíz), solares, tools, communal cattle; cert. San Gabriel 19… (orig. p. 98–99) manuscript scan ↗
- 1787 · Gov. Pedro Fages — 'Informe General sobre las Misiones' — Fages's comprehensive mission-by-mission report (per the Cmdte Gral's 1 Dec 1786 order), province growth 1769→1787 ('210 leguas,' 10 missions + pueblos LA/San José), promised padrón de almas; neophyte 15–17-day ranchería rotation, harvest-shortfall (mission of 1100+ neófitos, only 120 rationable),… (orig. p. 121–154) manuscript scan ↗
- 1779 — the 1779 Reglamento (Títulos incl. IX 'Revistas mensuales' @n180; presidio supply/fiscal via San Blas @n200) — ⚠ NOT a single continuous document: the band is a MIX, also carrying the pueblo-founding law (solares/suertes indivisible & inalienable, no censo/mortgage, ejido commons — Recopilación framework, @n210) AND ⭐⭐ an interleaved… (orig. p. 155–209) manuscript scan ↗
- 1783-05-09 · José Moraga (Ten.te, Pres. San Francisco; comisionado) — San José 1783 possession dossier (COMPLETE roster, item-read) — Fages's framing ordinance + Moraga's *autos*; for each poblador 3 *diligencias*: (1) a 30-vara-square solar, (2) 4 *suertes de tierra* (200×200 varas, irrigated), (3) a cattle brand (fierro); dated 9 May 1783. ⭐ The 9 grantee-pobladores: Manuel González, José Tiburcio… (orig. p. 242–271) manuscript scan ↗
- 1786-09-04 · Alférez José Argüello — Los Angeles 1786 possession dossier (roster ~COMPLETE, item-read) — the formalization of the LA founders' titles: per Fages's mandate & Neve's Reglamento, the 'nueve Pobladores' each granted a solar (20×40 varas) + 4 suertes (200 v²) + a registered brand. ⭐ COMPLETE 9-poblador roster: Antonio Clemente (José proxy), Antonio Navarro… (orig. p. 285–307) manuscript scan ↗
- 1782-04-03 · Viceroy Mayorga (México) — 1782 pueblo-founding reglamento/instruction (distinct from the 1779 Reglamento; interleaved in the n161–235 band) — the articles on *solares*/*suertes* (indivisible & inalienable, no censo/mortgage, not to the Church/mortmain), the 5-year ban on selling/killing granted livestock, ejido commons, inheritance; certified by Fages for the… (orig. p. 210–230) manuscript scan ↗
- 1782-06-06 · José Moraga — 1782 PLANO/MAP of the Pueblo San José *suertes de tierra* — the grid of distributed farm-plots (each 200 v²) labeled with the pobladores' names (Amézquita, Alvitre, Claudio Alvires, Butrón, González, B. Rosales, Peralta, Ábila, J.T. Vásquez, Archuleta, Ortega…), showing the Río de Guadalupe + acequia; distributed & delivered to their… (orig. p. 240 (exp.684)) manuscript scan ↗
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