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Pedro Fages correspondence and documents, 1772-1788.
BANC MSS C-A 235LOCAL
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Title:

Pedro Fages correspondence and documents, 1772-1788

Creator/Contributor:

Fages, Pedro, 1734-, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Sal, Hermenegildo, -1800

Creator/Contributor:

Serra, Junípero, Saint, 1713-1784, Correspondent

Abstract:

Includes letter to Father Junípero Serra, with reply by Serra; list of captives from settlements on the Colorado River, and those killed there, Dec. 20, 1781; copy, in hand of Hermenegildo Sal, of diary kept during expedition from Pitic to Mission San Gabriel in California, 1781-1782; itemized list of horses, mules and equipment assigned to Sonora garrisons, 1782; Fages' service record, 1787; official letters concerning the use of Pious Fund for travel expenses of friars going to California missions and concerning Nicolas Soler's report on the Santa Barbara presidio, 1787-1788.

Date:

1772 (issued)

Subject:

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Missions -- California
Discoveries in geography
Missions
California -- History -- To 1846
California -- Discovery and exploration
Californie -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1846
Californie -- Découverte et exploration
California
Pious Fund.

Note:

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Vols. 3-4 : Also available on microfilm.
Originals and contemporary copies, assembled from various sources; some from the T.W. Norris and Cowan Collections.
In Spanish.

Type:

History.
Diaries.
Overland journals-1781.
Inventories.

Physical Description:

1 portfolio
1 microfilm reel (55 exposures) : negative (Rich. 85:18) and positive

Language:

Spanish

Identifier:

BANC MSS C-A 235LOCAL

Origin:

California

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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
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