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Documents relating to Baja California, 1795-1854.
BANC MSS M-M 1839 FILM
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Title:
Documents relating to Baja California, 1795-1854Creator/Contributor:
Arrillaga, José Joaquín, 1750-1814, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Aguilar, Xavier.Creator/Contributor:
Infanso, Bernard Suares.Abstract:
Materials on the Walker expedition and correspondence of Joaquín de Arrillaga. Includes: 1) Appeal for funds to fight the
French, 1795, Diego Borica; 2) Copy of letter, Xavier Aguilar to Lt. Col. Joaquin de Arrillaga, May 18, 1799, account of battles
against English in the Cabo de San Lucas in Baja California; 3) Copy of letter, Xavier Aguilar to Arrillaga, Mary 1800, reports
seeing foreign ships on the Bahia de la Paz; 4) Oct. [?] 29, 1853, La Paz, notification of the Walker Expedition; 5) Jan.
21, 1854; 6) Jan. 1, 1854, San José, report on foreigners on their way from San Francisco to Guaymas on a stop-over in San
José, Baja California.
(Cont.) 7) Arrillaga to Comandante and Commissioner of San Blas, June 19, 1799, Loreto, copy of letter from Bernard Suares
Infanso, describing his capture by the English during his search for the Islas Mansos in Baja California; 8) 1853, Oct. 18,
La Paz, Walker Expedition.
Date:
1795 (issued)Subject:
of Bradford -- Walker, WilliamBaja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
Note:
In Spanish.
Physical Description:
microfilm
1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 553:19) and positive.
Language:
Spanish
Identifier:
BANC MSS M-M 1839 FILM