Dominicans

Title pages to documents not included in this Tomo (88). (J. Williams, April 1987)

Documents deal with following topics: Urgency of need for supplying frontier presidios with firearms and causes of delays in shipment from Spain. Military and religious salaries and monte pio for California. Promotions, commissions, assignments and transfers requested because of hardship on frontier for personnel. Request for passport for transfer of recruit to another province. Need for reprinting reglamentos. Alcabala on tobacco, playing cards, gunpowder. Neve named as gobernador of California. Administrative matters concerning postal service, aduana at Chihuahua, supply of mercury for mines and salary and duties of assayer at rosario. (J. M. Johnson, July 1988)

Various documents relating to civil and military affairs within Provincias Internas in particular, authorization to capitan Martinez to wed if future wife's dowry proven. Ministers from real hacienda have same rights to retire to Spain with kings permission with third of salary as priests. Request by Fernandez to be reimbursed for monies given to Medina for subsistance and trip to Mexico for horses. Request denied by viceroy as Fernandez did not follow procedures. Food supplies for presidios in California. Letters to governor of Veracruz to aid Croix's doctor in travel to Mexico. Requests for gunpowder of first quality to be used in war time in presidios along frontier. Raise of salary for Escorza. Extinction of compania volante de Sonora under king orders. (A. Dell'acqua, March 1988)

Letters from Buenaventura y Olivares to Cuerbo y Valdes and Galindo describing Indian raids on new missions of San Juan Baptista and San Francisco Solano. (J. H. Ochs, February 1987)

Gobernador authorizes missionaries to return to colegio de San Fernando de Mexico by ship. Faura served at San Juan Capistrano from 1798 to 1809; Yturrate at San Juan Bautista from 1800 to 1809. Embarked on fragata Princesa at San Diego for San Blas November 17, 1809; arrived Mexico January 22, 1810. Tesoreria general de exercito y real hacienda informs that each one should be 400 give pesos as abono for 66 days of travel. (J. M. Johnson, December 1986).

Each biennial report of Dominican missions in Baja California is followed by notes elaborating detailed additional information. Report itself lists number of priests at each mission for report period, religious wages due order sinodos, total population figures broken down by male-female, Indian-Spanish and others, and a general summary statement of significant numerical changes in these categories since the last report. Notes contain varied and interesting data on mission industries, crops, physical improvement or deterioration of facilities, attitudes toward Indian groups, social customs, geography, mission benefactors and much else. Folios 130-132 contain subjective views of missions success and impact on various Indian groups since 1698. (J. M. Johnson, December 1986)

Individual reports from all 19 Dominican missions of Lower California for 1777 and 1798. All include statistics on baptisms, deaths, marriages, numbers in catechism classes, population, numbers of animals, hectares planted, condition of church buildings ornamentations, etc. See page 92-119 for notes and summary statistics for 1798, 1898, 1807, 1799, 1800. Excellent data. (D. Deeds, 1977)(j.m.johnson, December 1986)

Ribas, procurador general for Dominican missions in B.c. writes to virrey requesting that sinodos (wages paid yearly to Dominican order) for 23 missionaries and dotacion (endowment covering expenses incurred in maintaining religious memorials) be paid by real tribunal de Cuentas for previous year. Further documents concern habilitacion de memorias (financial & inventory records kept by each mission) and authorize and confirm that above payments were made. (J. M. Johnson, November 1986).

(A. Tukey, June 1988)

(A. Tukey, jne 1988)