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Diario que forma el P. Fr. Pedro Font ... sacado del borrador que escrivio en el camino del viage que hizo a Monterey y Puerto de San Francisco en compañia del ... Comandante ... Juan Bautista de Anza por orden ... [de] Antonio Maria Bucareli, virrey ... 1775 : ms.S, 1776.
BANC MSS M-M 1724; BANC MSS M-M 1723-1725 positive microfilm
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Title:

Diario que forma el P. Fr. Pedro Font ... sacado del borrador que escrivio en el camino del viage que hizo a Monterey y Puerto de San Francisco en compañia del ... Comandante ... Juan Bautista de Anza por orden ... [de] Antonio Maria Bucareli, virrey ... 1775 : ms.S, 1776

Creator/Contributor:

Font, Pedro, 1737-1781, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872

Abstract:

Copy made at Ures, June 5-23, 1776, by Font of his diary, Sept. 29, 1775-June 2, 1776. With his corrections and additions. Records the second Anza expedition, September 29, 1775-June 5, 1776, from San Miguel de Horcasitas to San Francisco and back, conducted by order of Viceroy Bucareli for the settlement of Monterey and San Francisco. Written in Ures from notes made during the expedition, it contains valuable geographical and topographical information. The Spanish text, with an English translation, has been published in the Academy of Pacific Coast History, Publications, Volume III (Berkeley, 1913) Another translation was published by Herbert Eugene Bolton in Anza's California Expeditions, Vol. III (Berkeley, 1930)

Date:

1776 (issued)

Subject:

Anza, Juan Bautista de -- 1735-1788
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Missions -- California
Missions -- Arizona
Missions -- Mexico
Archives -- California
Mexico -- Description and travel
Arizona -- Discovery and exploration
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (Ariz.)
California -- Discovery and exploration
San Frncisco Bay Area (Calif.)

Note:

Lacks map, diagram (Casa Grande) and plan (San Francisco Bay) mentioned in text.
Also available on microfilm.
Forms part of the Robert Ernest Cowan Collection.

Type:

Overland journals-1775.
Diaries.

Physical Description:

[79] p. ; 21 cm.
partial microfilm reel (43 exposures) : negative (Rich. 416:9) and positive.

Language:

Spanish
English

Identifier:

BANC MSS M-M 1724
BANC MSS M-M 1723-1725 positive microfilm

Origin:

California