Military-Religious Relations

303-312: Informe from Bucareli to director of temporalidades asking that Arroyo Zarco administrator be replaced by Aysa due to poor administration. Informe from Garay to Mangino regarding end of the ranch's seizure. Aissa asks for funds for repairs. 313-336: Montoya Garay provides inventory list to Ayssa which includes extensive and descriptive list of chapel and vestry items, household furnishings, books, kitchen goods, laborer tools, bed sheeting, store items, personal debts, farmhand salaraies, livestock. 342: Virrey grants permission that Mangino come to capital. 345-352: Escala Guller grants permission to Thomas Escala to buy and sell his properties. 353-354: Montoya aska virrey if taking horses from his own hacienda is permissible. 355-358: Mangino infoms virrey of financial losses to Arroyo Zarco caused by troops and sailors that are housed at the hacienda. (J. Hiller, October 1988)

Correspondence between padres of Californias and San Fernando requesting payment of sinodos to 19 missions of California for October 1809-October 1810; includes list of missions and missionaries of California; very little substantive content. (D. J. McClelland, June 1988)

Series of notes regarding correspondence (letters not present), between fiscal, guardian de San Fernando, governor of California and others regarding necessity for more padres in California; payment of sinodos to missionaries of P.I. And Alta California; new posts assigned for various missionaries; foundation of mission on Canal of Santa Barbara; index of some religious expeditions. (D. J. McClelland, may 1988)

Pena, navy chaplain for departamento de San Blas requests permission to resign his post due to ill health. Virrey accedes, names Gomez as replacement. (J. H. Ochs, July 1988)

Series of documents concerning ships arrivals from various ports to San Blas; permits granted to government official; military supplies; request for building of cemetery in San Diego; certification that a military official took part in several campaigns. (M. Marroquin, July 1988)

Desertion of mission by fray Berraquero investigated by various religious, military and civil officials; travel restrictions discussed; desertion is forgiven by bishop of Durango; recommendation is eventually made that Berraquero go to Spain after evaluation of past misbehavior and present repentance; women referred to as two Indians with whom Berraquero consorted on one occasion. (D. J. McClelland, April. 1988)

Investigative procedure in legal case against Pena carried out by Sal; employment of interpreters for Indian witnesses; Series of testimonies addressing Pena's character and homicides of which he is accused; three Indian prisoners interrogated to determine validity of their accusations; accounts of treatment of Indians on missions; women referred to in account of marriage of neofita against her will to proveedor Alvitre by Pena. (D. J. McClelland, April. 1988)

Borica recounts to virrey incident of death of Christian Indian woman at hands of non-christian Indians; mentions long-term implications of allowing such excesses to get out of hand. (D. J. McClelland, March 1988)

Mission procuradores Gomez, santolarios, Hidalgo and others request that virrey and Senor fiscal pay sinodos and Lampara; includes table with census of missions of Santo Domingo of Antigua California; women referred to in context of census; brief reference made to Indians dying out of unmentioned disease; prolonged absence of fray berrequero from mission discussed; includes table listing 28 padres of Sagrado Orden de Predicadores administering missions of Baja California; list of missions. (D. J. McClelland, March 1988)