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Records relating to promotions of Portolá, Costansó, and Fages, 1770-1771.
BANC MSS M-M 1811 box 1 (pt. I no.1-16; pt. II no.17-20); BANC MSS M-M 1811 FILM Pt. II (folders 17-20); BANC MSS M-M 1811 FILM Pt. I-II (folders 1-20, c.2)
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Title:

Records relating to promotions of Portolá, Costansó, and Fages, 1770-1771

Abstract:

Correspondence of Julián de Arriaga (Minister of the Indies), Viceroy de Croix, and Gaspar de Portolá, with supplementary documents, concerning promotions granted by the King to Portolá (from the rank of captain to that of lieutenant colonel), Miguel Costansó, and Pedro Fages, in view of past services, particularly exploration of the California coast and (in Portolá's case) direction of expulsion of the Jesuits from California.
Copied from A.G.I. (Seville), Audiencia de Méjico, Provisiones de empleos políticos y militares, Años 1717-90, Estante 88, cajón 2, legajo 8. With certificatory statements signed by the Chief of the Archives, Pedro Torres Lanzas (Seville, March 12, 1910), on stamped paper.

Date:

1770 (issued)

Subject:

Portolá, Gaspar de
Costansó, Miguel
Fages, Pedro

Note:

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. Use microfilm only. Use of original only by permission of the appropriate curator.
Also available on microfilm.
Records relating to promotions of Portolá, Costansó, and Fages, BANC MSS M-M 1811:19, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In Spanish.
No. 19 in the collection Documents concerning Gaspar de Portolá.

Physical Description:

print
1 leaf, 8 pages ; 16-33 cm.
partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 486:5) and positive.

Language:

Spanish

Identifier:

BANC MSS M-M 1811 box 1 (pt. I no.1-16; pt. II no.17-20)
BANC MSS M-M 1811 FILM Pt. II (folders 17-20)
BANC MSS M-M 1811 FILM Pt. I-II (folders 1-20, c.2)

Origin:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Copyright Note:

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. Use microfilm only. Use of original only by permission of the appropriate curator.