C-A 7 · Provincial State Papers, Tomos XII–XIII

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Notable documents

• 1794-12-15 · Grajera → Borica; FOREIGN-SHIP EXPULSION ORDER (recd.): intimate any foreign ship to leave w/o excuse; no dealings/no supplies except urgent humanitarian (derecho de gentes); prevent them learning the country; specific orders re Vancouver & Peter Puget's ships at Monterey; warnings to all escort comandantes (orig. p. 9–10) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-10-01 · Pérez Fernández → Borica; Asks what to do if Vancouver / another English war-or-merchant ship appears at SF — the alliance R.O. doesn't mention Cal. ports; invokes what was observed with Vancouver's expedition (orig. p. 88–89) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-08-25 (encl. 1793-09-26) · Viceroy Branciforte → Gov; Separation of California from the Comandancia Gen. de Provincias Internas; repartimiento de tierras ordered by Jacobo de Ugarte y Loyola but never executed; encloses Arrillaga's 26 Sep 1793 letter to Revillagigedo on granting sitios to discharged soldiers/vecinos vs. undefined mission limits, & Indians' natural right to the best sites (orig. p. 117–121) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-04-30 · Hermenegildo Sal → Gov Arrillaga; Sal's own report on the Castillo/baluarte labor force: 33 gentiles from San José ('muy contentos, se les trata bien'); 78 men total on the works = 30 from the SF mission + punished cimarrones + 8 from Sta Clara + 37 gentiles, under 1 sgt/1 cabo/2 soldiers; mission Padres demand a blanket/trousers monthly on top of pay (refused); 1,500… (orig. p. 187–190) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-12-29 · Goycoechea (SB) → Borica; Vancouver's gifts & the SB supply to him: Vancouver's gifts (8–12 mirrors, powder bags) split SB/San Buenaventura/presidio + offer of a London libranza (Goycoechea declined as too small); + itemized list of what SB supplied Capt. George Vancouver — bullocks, Puebla beans, blue royal-factory cloth, fine Puebla crockery, maize, a red… (orig. p. 225–227) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-11-04 · José Argüello (Monterey) → Borica; The San José / Santa Clara affair: forwards Cabo Gabriel Moraga's report of a rumored gentile uprising round Pueblo S. José caused by Fr. Manuel Fernández's violent forced-conversion sweeps; Argüello sent Hermenegildo Sal to reconnoiter (Sal found the Indians quieted, the plot rumor untrue, but confirmed the friar punished 'el indio… (orig. p. 336–353) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-11-07 · José Argüello (Monterey) → Borica; Vancouver's frigate Discovery anchored at Monterey 5 Nov: came only to collect deserters & to forward Court pliegos he expected in Cal.; finding none, begged a courier toward San Diego (had charged Tte. Grajera) & that a recommended letter be forwarded to the first English ship there. Vancouver asked if there'd be 'the same… (orig. p. 380–381) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-11-16 · George Vancouver (aboard the *Discovery*, Monterey) → Borica; Collated against Vancouver's English original (Lamb, A Voyage of Discovery, IV). Savage's Spanish, verbatim from the leaf: *\\'A mi arribo á este Puerto hallé los dos hombres q.e desertaron el 6 de En.o de 93 del Berg.n de la Real Armada Ynglesa nombrado el Chatham, con otros tres q.e en Dic.bre de 92 desertaron de la urca Dédalo en… (orig. p. 410–411 (dup 407–409)) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1793-01-12 · Juan Fco de la Bodega y Quadra (aboard the goleta *Activa*, Monterey) → José Argüello; The foreign-ship policy in his own hand: the London convention bars foreign ships from Spanish establishments, but one that arrives by accident 'sin órden de S.E., ó permiso de S.E.' — 'como se ha verificado por esta vez, con el Comandante Vancouver' — is to get 'los precisos auxilios que manda la Hospitalidad, sin permitirles se demoren' (orig. p. 429) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-11-12 · Borica (Monterey) → Cmdt of Presidio; General foreign-ship EXCLUSION order, synthesizing the whole policy (verified at full resolution): no foreign ships in American ports — expel any arrival 'sin pretexto ni excusa,' no one 'por privilegiada q[ue] sea' to trade 'directa ó indirectamente,' nor even supply victuals; only in the remote case of urgent necessity give 'los… (orig. p. 485–486) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794 (no date) · Arrillaga (Gob. intº) → Borica; 'Estado de las Californias' / Papel de Puntos — his 32-point handover state-of-the-province report (⚠ trunco). Highlights: Indian-fire bandos (pt.2); 1792 pueblo unrest + San José land-suerte distribution in property, inalienable (pts.4–5); Monterey-river settlers (pt.6); soldier cattle-limits 3–4 cows SD/SB/Monterey (pt.9); ⭐⭐ SF… (orig. p. 491–498) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1794-06-15 · Ramón Saavedra (Cmdt of Nootka) → Gov. of Cal.; Intelligence (from an English merchant-frigate captain): an English 40-gun warship was to sail (last Oct.) to Nootka 'á tratar varios asuntos… y relevar á Dn George Wancouver,' now 'muy inmediata á esta costa' — warns Borica to watch; thinks Vancouver's stated motive (his commission ending this year) 'frívolo' (orig. p. 521) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-11-14 · Branciforte (México) → Gov. of Cal.; Reservada R.O. (4 Jul): the KING approves Borica's warnings to Vancouver — on Vancouver's Monterey arrival, 'subsistir las prohibiciones para no acercar… los buques estrangeros' (per Borica's nº 69) — royal ratification of E12/E16 (orig. p. xiii.159) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-11-26 · Branciforte (México) → Gov. of Cal.; Sends 12 copies (4 in vol.) of the bando announcing the definitive PEACE WITH FRANCE (the Treaty of Basel, 1795, ending the Franco-Spanish war) — ⚠ the treaty text itself is not in the volume. The structural turning-point: the war that created the Anglo-Spanish alliance is over (orig. p. xiii.163–171) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-04-08 · Branciforte/Fiscal (México) → Borica; The case of Fr. Tomás de la Peña (Santa Clara): accused by Indians of beating a 14-yr-old to death with a cabestro (+ another); Gov. Fages had Alf. Sal investigate (~1785–87); 19 witnesses mostly hearsay, coached by Nicolás Cotag; SF cmdt Diego González denounced; 1791 Cmdt-Gen./Auditor Gral ordered de la Peña removed; BUT the Fiscal's… (orig. p. xiii.219–228) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-04-11 · Branciforte (México) → Borica; Another royal ratification (KING, via the Duque de la Alcudia / Godoy, R.O. 6 Dec): approves Borica's 'prudentes precauciones' over Vancouver's expedition at Santa Bárbara & San Diego — refusing to let them 'reconocer el terreno' (for their 'proyectados establecimientos') — & orders 'la mayor precaución con todos los buques así Ingleses… (orig. p. xiii.232–233) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-09-15 · José Pérez Fernández (San Francisco) → Borica; THE 1795 MISSION DOLORES MASS-FLIGHT: reports (via Fr. Martín Landaeta) that 'cerca de 200 cristianos de ambos sexos abandonaron la Misión de San Franco,' fleeing 'poco á poco y por diferentes rumbos' to the Otra banda (East Bay) — joining SF/S. Mateo/S. Pablo runaways of earlier years; a fugitive José Miguel reports a cimarrón… (orig. p. xiii.362–367) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-11-17/18 · Contaduría Mayor de Cuentas (Herrera, Fuente, Monterde) → Viceroy; THE VILLA DE BRANCIFORTE FOUNDING REPORT — the 17-point fiscal-administrative plan for a soldier-settler Villa; site chosen by Borica + engineer Alberto de Córdoba; Leyes-de-Indias layout; Ranchería-Indian settler clause; Alberni as Teniente Gobernador; named for the Viceroy (orig. p. xiii.431–438) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-12-12 · Branciforte (México) → Borica; Transmits the glossed Monterey pueblo/church reconstruction accounts after the 1789 fire (Lt. José Argüello's account = 2,609 p 9g, 17 Aug 1789–Dec 1791); embeds a first-person Indian-labor cuadrilla narrative (San José de Guadalupe rancherías) (orig. p. xiii.439–~450) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-03-08 · Pérez Fernández (SF) → Borica; THE KILLING OF SEVEN CHRISTIAN INDIANS (recently-baptized Sacalanes who had fled Mission SF) by Contra Costa Gentiles: a recovery party sent by Fr. Antonio Danti crossed the bay; the fleeing unarmed neophytes were shot with arrows, only 3–4 escaping (orig. p. xiii.543–544) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-10-01 · Grajera (SD) → [Nava]; The fullest account of the English whaler Resolución / Capt. John Locke (late Aug 1795): coastal sighting off San Miguel; signal-fires & shots; the escort pedrero + horse tumble into the estero (horse killed, gun unusable); ship to the Ensenada de Todos Santos; boarding party ashore (captain + English interpreter + 2 Black crew);… (orig. p. xiii.585–590) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795 *(n.d.)* · José Argüello (Monterey) → Borica; RELACIÓN OF THE SETTLED RANCHOS of the Monterey jurisdiction — a table of owners, rancho names, livestock & distances (Solórzano/Buena Vista, J. Castro, Robles, Romero, Montero, Rosales/Pescadero, Heredia, Padilla) + notes on land/herds & a possible new 8-vecino población (orig. p. xiii.608) full entry · manuscript scan ↗
• 1795-05-29 · Pérez Fernández (SF) → Borica; SECOND account of the killing (a party of 14 — 2 alcaldes + old/new Christians — sent unarmed to fetch the fled Sacalanes; met a large armed Gentile force; all died but one) + the friar's cover-up (told the survivor 'es mentira' & 'cuidado con decir nada'; the women wept) → E31 ⚠ casualty count differs from Doc 596 (orig. p. xiii.631–632, 637) full entry · manuscript scan ↗

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