Documentos para la historia de California, 1827-1873 [Avila, Miguel], 1827-1873

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Summary

Title:
Documentos para la historia de California
Dates:
1827-1873
Creators:
Avila, Miguel
Abstract:
Letters, legal documents, land papers, accounts, proclamations, etc., relating primarily to Avila's position as alcalde and as juez at San Luis Obispo and to his claims for extensions to his grant of Rancho San Miguelito.
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 box
Language:
Collection materials are in Spanish
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Documentos para la historia de California, BANC MSS C-B 67, The Bancroft Library, Universtity of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

This small collection of documents, given to H. H. Bancroft by Avila's widow, deals mainly with Avila's position as alcalde and justice at San Luis Obispo, and relates also to his claim for extensions to his grant of Rancho San Miguelito.

H. H. Bancroft's arrangement and numbering of the documents (which were originally bound) have been retained. The calendar, which follows, describes each item in the collection. Following that is a list of correspondents and/or signers of documents, which serves as a name index.

Biographical / historical:

Miguel Avila, born at Santa Barbara, in 1796, son of José de Santa Ana Avila, was educated in San Francisco. He later served as a copyist at Monterey. Enlisting in the army, in the Monterey Company in 1816, by 1824 he was corporal of the troops at San Luis Obispo. He was alcalde at San Luis Obispo in 1849, and was a grantee of Rancho San Miguelito. He died in 1874.

Acquisition information:
The collection was given to H. H. Bancroft by Miguel Avila's widow.
Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by The Bancroft Library staff
Date Prepared:
© 1996
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding; finding aid encoded by Padma Rubiales. Date: Unknown. Final version edited by Gabriela A. Montoya.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.The original documents have been withdrawn from use and may be consulted only by permission of the Director. Either microfilm or photocopy may be used instead.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Documentos para la historia de California, BANC MSS C-B 67, The Bancroft Library, Universtity of California, Berkeley

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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