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Finding Aid to the Prints and/or transcripts of documents concerning California and Mexico,
1706-1857
BANC MSS M-A 17
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Collection Title: Prints and/or transcripts of documents concerning California and Mexico,
Date (inclusive): 1706-1857
Collection Number: BANC MSS M-A 17
Creator:
Mexico. Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional. Archivo General.
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 carton, 1 box, 10 volumes (10 volumes stored in carton 2)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please
consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Documents relating to the filibustering activities of Raousset-Boulbon
(1852-1853); Henry A. Crabb (1857); defense of Veracruz and the Gulf Coast against English attack (18th
century); administrative and foreign affairs of Upper California, 1830-1846. Many of these documents are
described in Bolton's Guide (1913), at which time they were in the Secretaria de Guerra y Marina of the
Archivo General de la Nacion. Now they are deposited in the Archivo Historico Militar de Mexico. See the
published Guia (Mexico, 1948)
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
reader.
[Identification of item], Prints and/or transcripts of documents concerning California and Mexico,
BANC MSS M-A 17, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The first three groupings in this collection are copies made in the old Secretaría de Guerra y
Marina in the first quarter of this century. Many were copied by Charles H. Cunningham, George R. Tays,
and Rufus K. Wyllys for their own studies. Most were listed by Herbert E. Bolton in his
Guide to
the Materials for United States History in the Archives of Mexico.
Although the archive has
been reorganized since that time, the transcripts have been left in the groupings in which they were
copied. It was impossible to ascertain how the modern groupings correlate to the older ones. The
headings which correspond to the older groupings are "Archivo General", "Archivo General
-Fracción Primera (Operaciones Militares)", and "Archivo de la Bibiotheca -Varios Asuntos".
They occupy the first nine pages of this Calendar. The folders are annotated with the name of the person
for whom they were copied.
The fourth grouping represents copies taken from the microfilm made for Bancroft Library in 1955 under
the direction of Professor George P. Hammond. Some are typed transcripts made by Paul Ezell from the
microfilm, and some are bound volumes of copyflo. They are listed in this Calendar under the title
"Expediente XI/481.3", which is the designation, followed by a document number, by which whey are now
known. They are listed in the
Guía del Archivo Histórico Militar de
México,
published by the Mexican Dirección de Archivo Militar. (BL
call number CD3660 M35).
Folder numbers should be used in requesting these documents, as well as the archival citations.
Lists of documents copied from this archive and others in Mexico by Tays and Wyllys may be found in
Bancroft Library (see BL Author-Title Catalog under the authors' names).