Manuscripts

Pledge for obtaining parole

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Description: After being taken prisoner in California, Noriega promises in writing "not to take arms against the United States of North America or the Residents of California." In Spanish. Includes translation into English, in the hand of John Augustus Sutter.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1846, July 11.
Call number: mssHM 540
Creator: Guerra y Noriega, José de la (1779-1858)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson 126, date unknown.
Dimensions: 30 cm :

Manasse, Joseph S., 1831-1897. Letter to Juan Mendoza

Manuscripts

Boxes 1-17 consist mainly of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts to and from José Matías Moreno. Some subjects include the history of his Rancho Guadalupe in northern Baja California; politics in Baja California and American economic and political influence there; filibustering; ranchos and land sales; commerce and shipping along the California coast; mining; and the social and domestic history of the Californios. Boxes 23-26 consist of additional oversize correspondence, documents, and manuscripts at the end of the collection. Note: At the end of Box 15, there are facsimiles, translations, and a group of loose notes and fragments. The notes and fragments appear to be a working translation. These folders do not have an HLG call number.

HLG 540

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Juan Vicente Guémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo letter to Manuel Godoy, Duque de Alcudia

Manuscripts

This manuscript is an English translation of a letter from the Conde de Revillagigedo to the Duque de Alcudia, dated 1793, April 12, outlining various details related to the exploration of California and other regions of New Spain. The translation was done in 1898, April 22, and is signed by Francisco de Thoma, the translator. Pages 1 and 3 are missing.

mssHM 296

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José Joaquín Arrillaga letter to Joseph Pérez Fernández

Manuscripts

This manuscript consists of orders from Arrillaga to take affidavits of four prisoners of the English vessel known as the Betsy of London. See HM 4109 for more details. In Spanish.

mssHM 4110

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José de la Puente letter to Juan de Acuña

Manuscripts

In this letter, the marqués de Villapuente asks for an increase in the number of soldiers stationed at the missions in California. In Spanish.

mssHM 628

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François-Marie La Bintinaye letters to Dr. Walker King, (bulk 1789-1803)

Manuscripts

Letters from l'abbé de la Bintinaye to Dr. Walker King, bishop of Rochester, including pieces intended to be forwarded to Dr. King's brother John King (1759-1830) , Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office. Included are letters discussing de La Bintanaye' work on French translation of Edmund Burke's writings and his translation of "plantations laws." Also included are petitions from Dom Augustine de Lestrange (1754-1827) and Trappist monks (1800), the clergy of the Protestant church in Voltaire-Ferney in the Pays de Gex (1824), and French proprietors of a plantation in Matrinique (between 1809 and 1814). Also included is a note to John King regarding a obtaining a passport to a Canadian priest traveling to France (1803, Feb. 10) and a French translation of God Save the King and a poem to "His Britannic Majesty" set to the music of the British anthem composed by French royalists who had settled in British Canada.

mssHM 9653-9663

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Documents concerning land dealing in northern California

Manuscripts

All six of these items deal with land in Butte, Yuba, Sutter, and Sacramento counties in California. The six items include:

mssHM 79241-79246

Pledge for obtaining parole

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