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Title: Aguilar Family Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1833-1925
Bulk dates: 1856-1891
Collection Number: mssAguilar papers
Creator:
Aguilar family.
Extent:
32 items in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This small group of 32 items contains personal and business papers, in Spanish, of landowner
Blas Aguilar (born 1808) and members of his family, chiefly in
San Juan Capistrano, San Diego, and Los Angeles, California.
Language:
Spanish.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Aguilar Family Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Gift of Francisco Aguilar, San Juan Capistrano Mission, May 1938.
Blas Aguilar was born in San Diego in 1808. He was, for a time, majordomo of the San
Diego Mission and in 1841 acquired some land at San Juan Capistrano, where he made
his home.
This small group of material contains personal and business papers of Blas Aguilar
and members of his family. It consists of correspondence, an untitled poem, a play
"Coloquio de los Pastores," an account book, a promissory note, receipts, mortgages,
and deeds. There are also baptismal records from the San Juan Capistrano and San
Luis Rey missions. All of the items are in Spanish. It deals with San Juan
Capistrano, San Diego, and Los Angeles, California. There are a few letters written
from Arizona and Nevada.
Items chiefly arranged alphabetically by author.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Aguilar family.
Mission San Juan
Capistrano.
San Luis Rey Mission
(Calif.)
Land tenure -- California -- Los Angeles
County.
Land tenure -- California -- Orange
County.
Land tenure -- California -- San Diego
County.
California -- History
-- 19h century -- Sources.
Los Angeles (Calif.) --
History -- 19th century -- Sources.
San Diego (Calif.) --
History -- 19th century -- Sources.
San Juan Capistrano
(Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Baptismal registers -- California --
19th century.
Deeds -- California -- 19th century.
Financial records -- California --
19th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- California
-- 19th century.
Manuscripts -- California -- 19th
century.
Aguilar, Blas, recipient