Revolt at Mission San Gabriel, October 25, 1785: Judicial Proceedings and Related Documents

Authors

Rose Marie Beebe, Santa Clara UniversityFollow
Robert M. Senkewicz, Santa Clara UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Publisher

California Mission Studies Association

Abstract

In this section, we present English translations of the Spanish documents which relate to the planned Mission San Gabriel uprising in 1785. The documents come from two sources, the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City and the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. The documents from the Archivo General are located in ramo Provincias Intern.as, tomo 120, expediente 2. Our translation follows the order in which the documents are presented in this source. The first paragraph is the title page of the expediente. The documents follow as they are arranged, with one exception: the questions which the interrogator posed to the four witnesses are only listed once in the documents. The witnesses' answers are preceded by a brief phrase, a la primera, (to the first [question]), a la segunda (to the second [question]), and so forth. For ease of reading, we decided to repeat the questions before each answer given by each of the witnesses.

The Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library documents are taken from the "California Mission Documents" collection. The numbering of these documents has changed since the 1947 publication of Fr. Maynard Geiger's volume Calendar of Documents in the Santa Barbara Mission Archives. Archive-Library Director Lynn Bremer has posted new finding guides with the updated numbers online at http://www.sbmal.org/ histdocs.html.

We regret that space limitations make it impossible for us to present the Spanish text along side our English translation. We are working to make the Spanish text available online, and, if we are successful, we will provide you with the web link by way of the Correo, the CMSA electronic newsletter.

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Copyright © 2007 California Mission Studies Association. Reprinted with permission.

Recommended Citation

Beebe, R. M., & Senkewicz, R. M. (2007). Revolt at Mission San Gabriel, October 25, 1785: Judicial Proceedings and Related Documents. Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, 24(2), 15–29.