A letter written by the Jesuit Father Ugarte, a member of the College of Mexico, to Padre Provincial Palacios containing a detailed history on the early California missions. Ugarte claims the preceding padre provincials did not provide enough money and the missions of San Isidro and San Bruno have deteriorated. He describes raising money for the missions of San Francisco Xavier and Loreto and hopes for increased support for further missionary work in California. and Accompanied by a handwritten transcription.
Description:
Gift of Frederick W. and Carrie S.Beinecke.
Subject (Name):
Jesuits--California and Ugarte, Juan de, 1662-1730
Letter from Zachary Tayor as Aide to the Commander in Chief, to the Cuartel General Ejercito de Ocupacion concerning a previous communication by a commission dealing with contributions for Nuevo Leon. Taylor expresses satisfaction with the impartiality shown by the committee, asks the commissioners to recognize the importance of neutrality and to convey that to the people, and states his belief that no one from Nuevo Leon participated in the violence against the trains.
Subject (Name):
United States--Army--History--Mexican War, 1846-1848
Subject (Topic):
Mexican War, 1846-1848, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Campaigns, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Occupied territories
Letter from José de los Angeles Navarro, Jefe Politico of Bexar, to the Ayuntamiento of Goliad, transmitting a report of the Jefe Politico of Nacodoches concerning the threat posed to Bexar and La Bahia by the arming and arousal to hostility of Indian tribes by an American trader.
Subject (Name):
Navarro, José de los Angeles,--1784- and San Antonio (Tex.).--Jefe Politico
Viceroy Bucareli, having read Father Palóu's diary which suggested the possibilities of more missions in the San Francisco area, is inspired to establish six new missions. The letters inform Fray Junípero Serra, president of the California missions, about the new missions, their needs, and the planned overland expedition to be made by Juan Bautista de Anza from Sonora to Monterey.
Subject (Geographic):
California--History--To 1846
Subject (Name):
Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1735-1788, New Spain Viceroy (1771-1779 : Bucareli y Ursúa), Palóu, Francisco, 1723-1789, Rivera y Moncada, Fernando de, and Serra, Junípero, 1713-1784
Papers pertaining to the 1789 Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. Under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, the expedition sailed from Cadiz to the west coast of Africa, across the Atlantic to South America, south to the Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, and north along the west coast to Acapulco, where the documentation ends. In addition, there is material on the shipwreck of the San Pedro Alcantara, a voyage to the China Sea, and a map of the west coast of Central America.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish and Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Atrevida (Corvette), Cordova, Luis de, Descubierta (Corvette), Eguia, Manuel de, Fernán-Núñez, Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot, conde de, 1742-1795, Gutierrez de Rubalcava, Joaquin, Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809, Mazarredo, Joseph, Muñoz, Xavier, fl. 1786, Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, conde de, 1740-1799, Sesma, Fermin, Sevena, Pedro de, and Valdés y Bazan, Antonio, 1744-1816
Detailed reports on the presidios at Santa Barbara (WA MSS S-673;C128) and San Diego (WA MSS S-674;C128) noting supplies and personnel, and commenting on horsemanship, discipline, and the performance of the officers. Both items completely digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
San Diego (Calif.)--History
Subject (Name):
California Governor (1782-1790 : Fages) and Soler, Nicolas
Detailed reports on the presidios at Santa Barbara (WA MSS S-673;C128) and San Diego (WA MSS S-674;C128) noting supplies and personnel, and commenting on horsemanship, discipline, and the performance of the officers. Both items completely digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
San Diego (Calif.)--History
Subject (Name):
California Governor (1782-1790 : Fages) and Soler, Nicolas
Census report on the population of the Presidio de San Carlos de Buenavista by Salvador de Castillo. Information includes family composition, marital status, race and ethnicity.
Description:
Purchased from Peter Decker on the Walter S. McClintock Fund,1968.
Subject (Geographic):
Sonora (Mexico : State)--History
Subject (Name):
Presidio de San Carlos de Buenavista (Sonora, Mex.)
Account, by Fray Juan Antonio Garciá Riobó, of Ignacio Arteaga's expedition to continue Cuadra's discoveries of 1775. Arteaga left San Blas in 1779, explored Bucareli Sound, the Northwest Coast to Mt. St. Elias, returned by way of Cape Mendocino and San Francisco, and set out on a second journey to San Blas. Original (in folder 1) scanned.
Description:
Fray Juan Riobó was chaplain of the frigates la Princesa and la Favorita on a voyage under the command of Ignacio Arteaga to discover a Northwest passage north of San Francisco., The manuscript is endorsed: "Diario de la expedicion, que se hizo por Mandano de 1779, hasta la altura de 54 grados, y fundacion de la Mission de Sn. Gabriel. Car. 5, Leg. 6 n. 12.", and The manuscript probably once belonged to the library of the College of San Fernando. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Geographic):
Mendocino, Cape (Calif.), Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration, San Blas (Mexico), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Arteaga y Bazán, Ignacio and Riobo, Juan
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--California and Voyages and travels--History--19th century