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At San Fernando, companion mission of San Ga- briel, and like the latter belonging in a sense legally to the jurisdiction of Los Angeles during this decade, Francisco Gonzalez de Ibarra still served as minister, and alone it would seem from 1821, in which year Father Ulibarri died.20 Ibarra was somewhat inde- pendent in his ideas, and a caustic correspondence between him and the presidial authorities of Santa Bárbara is the most prominent element in the meagre annals of the mission for the period. Captain de la Guerra in 1821 applied to Sola for a grant of the Pirú Rancho, which Padre Ibarra also desired and in fact was already using to some extent for the mission herds. The earnest efforts of the friar and of Padre Señan seem to have kept the rancho from Guerra, but did not secure it for San Fernando, and a some- what bitter feeling survived on both sides. The padre complained that the soldiers of his escolta behaved badly, selling liquor and lending horses to the Indians. In 1825 he declared that the presidio was a curse rather than a help to the mission, sheltering fugitive neophytes, and that the soldiers should go to work
28 See chap. xxi. xxii. this vol., and iv. v. vi. of vol. iii.
29 Francisco Roman Fernandez de Ulibarri was born Feb. 28, 1773, at Ali, near Vitoria, Spain. He became a Franciscan in 1794 at Vitoria, sailed from Cádiz June 20, 1803, and arrived at the college of San Fernando on Sept. 9th. Here he worked irregularly on account of broken health for some five years, when he volunteered for the California service, arriving at Monterey June 22, 1809. His health was better in his new field, and he served at S. Juan Bautista till 1815, at Sta Inés till 1819, being, however, at Purísima tem- porarily in 1818-19, and at S. Fernando till 1821. His disease was hæmor- rhage of the lungs, of which he came near dying in Feb. 1821, being urged to go to S. Gabriel, but refusing. He changed his mind later, for he died and was buried at S. Gabriel on June 16th. He had been held of only ordinary merit. S. Gabriel, Lib. Mision, MIS., 36; Guerra, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., i. 241-2; Arch. Misiones, MS., i. 401-2, 485; Arch. Sta. B., MS., x. 444; Sarria, Informe sobre Frailes, 1817, MS., 52-3, 125; Autobiog. Autóg., MS.
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and raise grain, and not live on the toil of the Indians, whom they robbed and deceived with talk of liberty while in reality treating them as slaves. This brought out a sharp reply from Guerra, who advised the padre to modify his tone, or he might suffer from it.30 The mission was no longer prosperous in any respect, show- ing a radical decline in population, live-stock, and agriculture.31 There is some descriptive matter extant respecting the mission lands, but nothing whatever about the buildings at this time; and the items of events are very few and slight.32 The amount of supplies furnished by this mission to the presidio from 1822 to April 1827 was $21,203.
José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega continued to be captain of the Santa Bárbara company, but he acted as commandant in reality only until the end of 1827. Early in 1828 he went to Mexico as a member of congress, and after his return in 1829 was sus- pended from his position on account of being a Span-
30. Guerra, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., iv. 89, 96; vii. 62-7; Prov. Rec., MS., xi. 70-1; Arch. Arzob., MS., iv. pt. i. 61-2; Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., iv. 731-3. San Buenaventura also claimed the rancho of Pirú.
31 Guillermo Cota commanded the guard in 1822, and Juan Salazar in 1823. Statistics: decrease in population, 1,028 to 827. Baptisms, 302; largest num- ber, 42 in 1823; smallest, 17 in 1830. Deaths, 550; largest number, 91 in 1827; smallest, 21 in 1830. Decrease in large stock, 12,509 to 6,560; horses and mules, 509 to 560; sheep, 7,650 to 3,160. Crops: largest, 6,600 bushels in 1821; smallest, 1,305 in 1829; average, 2,936, of which 2,227 wheat, yield 13 fold; 105 barley (only raised in 1821); 480 corn, 44 fold. I have in my collection an alphabetical list of the neophytes of San Fernando, the original record of the mission, and the only one of the mission books the whereabouts of which is at present known. S. Fernando, Lista Alfabética de Neófitos, MS.
32 Mission lands extend 10 1. E. to w. from Tajunga Mts. to Ataguama Mts .; and N. to s. 5 leagues from ranchos S. Francisco de la Mision and Simi toward S. Gabriel and Sanja. Good soil, but no irrigation. Misiones, Cua- derno de Estados, 1822, MS., 237, 272-3. Camulos rancho occupied by the mission sheep in 1824. chap. xxiii. 1828, from s. to w. (?), 10 1. from Cahuenga to Triunfo, including Cahuenga, las Calabazas, Las Vírgenes, Agua Amarga, and Triunfo; front w. to N. (?), Camulos, S. Francisco Javier, 5 1. from Encino to the Sierra. Register of Brands, MS., 29-30. In 1821, a neophyte stabbed another in a gambling quarrel, and took sanctuary in the church. He was sent to Monterey for two years. Guerra, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., i. 203-11. April 13, 1826, Echeandía declares S. Fernando to be in the jurisdiction of Los Angeles. Dept. Rec., MS., iv. 30. Proposed ex-neophyte pueblo at S. Fernando 1826. Ilist. Cal., chap. iv. of vol. iii. this series. Dec. 1, 1830, mil- itary aid sent from town on account of the arrival of a suspicious party of gentiles. Dept. St. Pop. Angeles, MS., i. 95.
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iard. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Maitorena was acting comandante in 1828, and Lieutenant Romualdo Pa- checo in 1829-30. The lieutenancy was held by Gabriel Moraga until his death in 1823.33 It was vacant until 1827, when Alférez José Joaquin Maito-
33 Gabriel Moraga was a son of Lient. José Joaquin Moraga, the first co- mandante of San Francisco, and of his wife Doña María del Pilar de Leon y Barceló, born some years before his parents came to California. He enlisted in 1784, and July 16th of that year was married at S. Francisco to Ana María Bernal. Padre Palou officiated, and Capt. Nicolás Soler was present. S. Francisco, Lib. Mision, MS., 57. In 1788 he became corporal in the Monterey company, and for 12 years commanded various mission escoltas. From 1800 to 1806 he was sergeant of the same company; and was then transferred to S. Francisco as alférez. In 1811 he was made brevet lieutenant for his gallantry in a battle with the Indians on the strait of Carquines, and in April 1818 he received his commission as lieutenant of the Sta Bárbara company by a mistake made in Mexico or Spain, with which on account of his health he was well pleased. Prov. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., li. 4; lxix. 32; Prov. Rec., MS., ix. 196; Prov. St. Pap., MS., xx. 194; Vallejo, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., xvi. 48. In 1800 he commanded a small party sent against the Indians from Monterey, and he became one of the most famous Indian fighters in California. Before 1806 he had visited and named the San Joaquin river, where his father had been long before. His later recorded expeditions include that made to the broad region beyond the Tulares in Sept. and Oct. 1806; to the S. Joaquin in 1807; two visits to the S. Joaquin in search of mission sites, a trip to Bodega, the famous fight at Carquines Strait in May. and a campaign in the region of San Gabriel-all in 1810; three visits to Ross in 1812-13-14; and an expedition toward the Colorado in 1819: see chap. iii. xiv. and xv. this volume. According to his hoja de servicios of 1820 he had been connected with 46 expeditions against Indians and taken part in 10 battles. Prov. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., li. 4.
From about 1818 Lieut. Moraga tried frequently to obtain retirement on account of chronic rheumatism and other infirmities resulting from old age and past exposure. With this object of retirement in view he obtained cer- tificates from Gov. Sola, Capt. José D. Arguello, Capt. Francisco Ruiz, Sur- geon Quijano, and padres Señan and Payeras, all of whom spoke in terms of the highest praise respecting his character and the value of his past services. Guerra, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., vi. 180-204. No attention was paid to his demands so far as the records show; nor to his appeal of Oct. 29, 1822, to Iturbide, in which he pleaded earnestly at some length for retirement and full pay as the only means to protect his family from poverty and suffering. Id., vii. 117-22. Of the remaining 8 months of his life we know nothing; and of his death only that he was buried in the cemetery of Sta Bárbara mission on June 15, 1823. Sta Bárbara, Lib. Mision, MS., 35. Though an illiterate man, Moraga was honest, moral, kind-hearted, popular, and a very energetic and successful officer.
Moraga's wife and also a son died on Feb. 11, 1802. Prov. St. Pap., MIS., xviii. 197. He subsequently married María Joaquina Alvarado. Two of his sons, José Guadalupe and Domingo, were soldados distinguidos in the San Fran- cisco company in ISI8. S. Francisco, Cuentas, MS., i. iii. The former became a cadet in the San Diego company. Another son, Vicente, born at San Antonio Jan. 23, 1790, S. Antonio, Lib. Mision, MS., 7, was in 1833-5 a school- master at Angeles and also secretary and síndico of the ayuntamiento. Los Angeles, Ayunt. Rec., MS., 1; Botello, Anales del Sur, MS., 10, 176. But the fame of the family expired with Don Gabriel, whom Inocente García describes as a tall, well built man of dark complexion, brave, gentlemanly, and the best Californian soldier of his time.
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rena was promoted to be lieutenant, and Cadet Do- mingo Carrillo to be alférez, though the latter was serving at San Diego during 1828-9, and Alférez Rodrigo del Pliego served at Santa Bárbara in his place most of the time. The alférez was usually habilitado, though Carlos Carrillo held the place for a time in 1822-3, and Anastasio Carrillo in 1827 and 1829. Maitorena was sent to Mexico as a member of congress for 1829-30, and died probably in 1830. A notice of his life is given in another place.34 Pacheco though acting comandante of the post was not an
officer of the company. José Antonio de la Guerra was a cadet in 1821, Francisco Tapia in 1825-6, and Ignacio del Valle in 1828-9. Sergeant Anastasio Carrillo served throughout the decade. Cota was replaced by Dámaso Rodriguez in 1821; Cárlos Car- rillo retired in 1824 or earlier, and his place was filled in 1827 by Juan Salazar who in 1830 was sent to San Diego temporarily as habilitado. Maitorena was post- master in the earlier years, and Sergeant Carrillo in the later. In these republican times there was also a form of civil government, and an ayuntamiento elected for the first time in December 1826 by order of Echeandía, though the list of officials as recorded is very imperfect.35
The presidial company of Santa Barbara did not vary materially from sixty-six men and twenty-six invalids from 1821 to 1829, but according to the rolls for 1830 was fifty men and twenty-two invalids. About twenty of the Mazatlan company under Fabre-
34 Hlist. Cal., chap. ii. vol. iii. this series. March 1, 1830, there was an order in Mexico for Capt. José Ramirez to proceed to California and take cominand of Sta Bárbara; but he never came. Sup. Govt. St. Pap., MS., vi. 4-5.
35 Dec. 15, 1826, Echeandía's order for an election. Dept. St. Pap., MS., i. 189-90. Vicente Valencia síndico in 1827. Id., xiv. 1. Jacinto Gonzalez síndico for 1828 and arrested by the alcalde for refusing to render accounts. Dept. Rec., MS., vi. 206. Martin Ortega, alcalde; Rafael Gonzalez, regidor; and José Antonio de la Guerra (Jr.) síndico in 1829. Dept. Rec., MS., vii. 67; Dept. St. Pap., MS., xiv. 1; St. Pap., Ben., MS., i. 94. Electores de par- tido; Francisco Ortega, 1822; Carlos Carrillo, 1827; Francisco Atanasio Cota, 1828; Domingo Carrillo, 1830.
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gat and Delgado may be supposed to have still re- mained here in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, though most of the number got no pay or rations and were carning their living as best they could; and in the last years of the decade there are mentioned seven or eight artillerymen and twelve or thirteen infantry. Thus in 1830, if we deduct twenty men for escolta duty and half the invalids, the total force at the presidio may be considered as eighty men. The population de razon at the presidio proper was about 500, only a slight gain if any during ten years, or 630 including the missions of the jurisdiction except San Fernando.36 There were at least ten resident foreigners in the district. With San Fernando and San Gabriel the total was 790 against 740 in 1820; or for the whole presidial district, including Los Angeles and its ranchos, 1790, a gain of 435 for the decade. The neophyte population of the same district had decreased in the same period from 6,400 to 4,400. If we take the two districts of Santa Barbara and San Diego together we find that during this decade South- ern California had gained in white population from 1,800 to 2,310, and declined in neophyte population from 11,600 to 9,600.37
36 The padrones in St. Pap. Miss., MS., iv. 48; v. 26, 33, give Sta Bárbara with its 5 missions, 604 souls in 1821, 606 in 1828, and 645 in 1830. The report in Wilkes' Nar., U. S. Explor. Exped., v. 555, gives 613 for 1828, agreeing practically with the other. That in Bandini, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., 6, makes the number 782 in 1827, doubtless including Indians. That in Sta Clara, Parroquia, MS., 57-S, makes the population 582 in 1824. The foreign residents were James W. Burke, Robert J. Elwell, Daniel A. Hill, Thomas M. Robbins, William G. Dana, William D. Foxen, James Scott, Michael White, John Wilson, and James Breck.
37 Items of finance for the decade: company pay-roll, from $1,450 to $1,700 per month. Dept. to S. Francisco at end of 1822, 81,19S. Supplies required for 1823, 1,100 fan. corn, 270 beans, 700 arrobas lard, $1,300 worth of soap! Paid the company in 1825, $3,324; due $5,199 more. Sometime in 1826 the company is said to have received $10,000 on account of back pay. Due company at end of 1826, $9,911. Supplies to Mazatlan company in 1827, $456. Oct. 1829, due from the treasury, $75,036. In April 1827 the habilitado signed drafts on Mexico for $85,578, the amount of supplies fur- nished by 6 missions since 1822. Duties from vessels, 1820 to Oct. 1822, $19,- 819, of which sum $13,377 for 1822. For 1825, $1,220; 1826, $7,223; 1827, about $6,000. Postal revenue, 1825, $25.50; 1826, $133. No tithes, 1823-6. Tithes in 1826, $2,640. Municipal revenue, 1827-8, $468; expenditures, SS6. Receipts in 1829, 8563; expenditures, $465. For company rolls, accounts,
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As a port Santa Bábara was visited frequently by foreign traders, as narrated in another chapter devoted to commercial annals, though at certain times this port, like San Francisco, was legally closed and could only be visited with a special license from the gov- ernor. Statistics are altogether insufficient to show the comparative extent of Santa Bárbara trade.38 Of the girls' school of 1817 nothing appears in the rec- ords; but a school was maintained in the last years of the decade, when Diego Fernandez received fifteen dollars per month for teaching. In 1828 Echeandia declared this a useless expense since not a single scholar attended the school with all the alcalde's efforts. The comandante was ordered to compel parents to send their children.39 The company's rancho of San Julian was a prosperons institution down to 1826 at least. It not only kept the troops supplied with meat and paid its expenses, but furnished $350 to buy an organ for the chapel, and left a cash balance of $940, besides 2,221 head of cattle.40 The presidio buildings were somewhat damaged by repeated shocks of earthquake in January; but we hear nothing more of extensive repairs or of removal. In the spring of 1827,41 when Duhaut-Cilly was here, Guerra was
etc., see Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lv .- ]xxvi., passim; Dept. St. Pap., MS., i. 9; ii. 76; Id., Ben. Cust. H., i. 27, 80; Id. Presid., i. 29; Id., Ben. Com. and Treas., i. 65-7, 81; Prov. Rec., MS., vii. 47, 160; xi. 80-1; Dept. Rec., v. 38-9; St. Pap. Sac., MS., xi. 15; xii. 4; xiv. 31; xiii. 11-18; St. Pap., Ben., MS., i. 82, 93-4; Arch. Arzob., MS., iv. pt. ii. 4; Vallejo, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., xvii. 120.
38 See Hist. Cal., chap. v. of vol. iii. and passim, this series. Ord, Ocur- rencias, MS., 19, describes the obtaining of water for vessels at Santa Bárbara as a very tedious process. Guerra in 1827 says that the inhabitants of the jurisdiction maintain themselves as a rule by the production of tallow and hides, raising also some grain and vegetables. A few engage in trade, but they will probably have to abandon it to foreigners, with whom it is impossi- ble to compete. At the missions some coarse woollen clothing and hats are made. The production of wine and brandy might be made profitable if foreign liquors could be excluded or heavily taxed. Guerra, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., i. 2-4.
39 Dept. Rec., MS., vi. 105; Dept. St. Pap., MS., xiv. 1-2.
40 Habilitado's report on the rancho from 1817 to 1826. Guerra, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., iii. 52-3.
+1 Duhaut-Cilly, Viaggio, i. 271-2. This writer says: 'The presidio of Sta Bárbara is, like that of Monterey, a closed square surrounded with houses of a single story. Near the north-west corner rises an edifice a little more
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about to finish a house for himself outside the presidio walls, where there were already from sixty to eighty houses, each with its little garden.
In a note I append a few items from the criminal record of the decade,42 though that record was by no means an unusually exciting one. In another note I close the record of Santa Barbara presidio with a chronologieal statement of local events, most of which are presented more or less fully in other chapters of this volume. 43
prominent than any other and ornamented with a balcony. It is the resi- dence of the comandante. At the opposite corner protecting the way to the shore, it was evidently the intention of the Californian engineers to build a bastion; but to believe that they had succeeded would be great good-nature.' Earthquakes in Jan. 1821. Guerra, Doc. ITist. Cal., MS., iv. 71. April 1821, the governor is on the lookout for a man to build a mill with a view to utilize the water of the reservoir to be constructed. Prov. Rec., MS., xi. 63. Rob- inson, Life in Cal., 44-8, briefly describes Sta Bárbara and vicinity as they appeared in 1829. He says that there were three or four large buildings at Ortega's rancho, but this establishment had never regained its prosperity since Bouchard's visit of 1818. The armament at Sta Bárbara in 1830 was seven guns, five iron and two brass, one of 8-pound calibre, five 6-pounders, and one 3-pounder. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxii. 24.
42 In 1821, a soldier having publicly asserted that he had been criminally intimate with a young lady, she was subjected to an examination by order of the governor and declared to be a virgin. Dept. St. Pap., MS., lv. 7-8. A sol- dier condemned to two years' work in shackles for rape of a child. Id., lii. 6. 1822, some proceedings against soldiers of the Mazatlan company for desertion. Penalties from four to six years in chain-gang. Id., liv. 11, 20-1. 1825, a sol- dier sentenced to three months in shackles for raising his bayonet against Sergt. Tobar; and Tobar reprimanded for use of abusive language and being drunk when on duty. St. Pap. Sac., MS., xi. 21. An alcalde complained that a private and innocent game of monte at his house had been broken up by the military. Dept. St. Pap., Pref. y Juzy., MS., vi. 34-5. 1827, soldier sentenced to seven years' of hard work for rape and desertion. Dept. Rec., MS., v. 38. Duhaut-Cilly, Viaggio, ii. 10-13, tells the story of Valerio, who' escaped from the mission and lived in a cave, coming at night for food, etc. According to this author Valerio was hunted down and killed some months before April 1827; but efforts to capture the ' famoso ladron ' are recorded in Feb. 1828. Dept. Rec., MS., vi. 186; St. Pap., Sac., MS., x. 100. In April 1830 a negro soldier wounded an English sailor, and declared at his examina- tion that he would kill a Gachupin foreigner whenever he had a chance; 'and this proof of patriotism was so favorable to him that Sr Pacheco acquitted and released him-I do not know if with thanks!' says Guerra. Carrillo (J. ), Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., 23. In May a neophyte convicted of killing another in a gambling quarrel, 10 years of hard labor at S. Diego. Id., 23-4; Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., 1xxii. 7. Sixteen prisoners in December. Id., 1xxii. 1.
43 In 1821 there were charges of connivance in smuggling against Lieut. Fabregat of the Mazatecas, who sold some otter-skins to an American schooner called the Sigloe. Prov. St. Pap., MS., xx. 294; Id., Ben. Mil., xlvi. 25; Prov. Rec., MS., xi. 67. An epidemic fever killed many Indians from June to August, as is stated by Guerra in a detailed diary of changes in the weather from Feb. 8th to Dec. 18th. Doc. Hist. Cal., MIS., iv. 495-501.
1822. In April an oath of allegiance to the imperial regency was taken by
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Changes in missionaries at Santa Bárbara Mission during this period were as follows: Antonio Jaime came in 1821; Francisco Suñer left the mission in 1823; Juan Moreno came in 1827; Antonio Ripoll fled at the beginning of 1828; in 1829 Moreno was succeeded by Antonio Jimeno, and Jaime died.44 Under the
the authorities, citizens, padres, and neophytes. chap. xxi. In June Alf. Maitorena was appointed to examine witnesses, and in conjunction with com- missioners named by the padres, to fix definite bounds between the presidio and mission. Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., iv. 569-71. In September the American schooner Eagle attempted to seize the Mexican brig San Francisco de Paula, but was instead seized by the officers of the brig, run on a sand-bank, and sold at auction. chap. xxi.
In 1823 the leading event was the employment by Guerra of William Bur- roughs to furnish medical treatment to the troops for 4 years at a salary of $240. Dr B. by the terms of his contract was to make two visits daily at 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. to the sick at the presidio; but might also visit the missions with a permit. After this year nothing more is heard of Burroughs, or Boris as he is called. Guerra, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., ii. 197-8; Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., iv. 651.
In 1824 there occurred the exciting episode of the great Indian revolt. chap. xxiii. In May 1825 the Spanish ship Aquiles visited this port, greatly to the scandal of Sta Bárbara society. Hist. Cal., chap. i. vol. iii., this series. For the next two years there is nothing to be noticed.
1828. Padre Ripoll ran away in January; and Gov. Echeandía honored Sta Bárbara with his presence both in spring and autumn. Hist. Cal., chap. ii. and iv. of vol. iii., this series. A Mexican newspaper of Nov. 1828 contained a communication from Capt. Miguel Gonzalez, in which it was narrated that three cadets, José Antonio de la Guerra and Raimundo and Joaquin Carrillo, had dressed themselves as Spanish officers one day in June, pretended to have just landed from a Spanish ship, rung the bell, and had been saluted by various sentries-in fact had been very near capturing the whole presidio for Spain, much to the terror of a few true Mexicans in the garrison, who hast- ened to load the cannon, when the cadets declared it all a joke. This matter was investigated next year, was found to be somewhat exaggerated, and the three culprits by reason of their youth were pardoned-or at least the fiscal recommended that the charge be dismissed. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., 1xx. 3-6.
1829. Padre Luis Martinez was imprisoned and tried here in February. Hist. Cal., chap. iv. of vol. iii., this series. The first vessel built in California, except at Ross, was built here this year and probably gave a name to La Goleta. chap. v. of vol. iii. In the autumn took place the exciting events of the Solis revolt with its bloodless battle near this presidio. Hist. Cal., chap. iii. of vol. iii., this series.
1830. In January the diputacion met here though only to adjourn; and in March a colony of convicts arrived, to be sent over to Sta Cruz Island. Hist. Cal., chap. ii. of vol. iii., this series. The celebration of the national anni- versary on Sept. 16th is said to have been rather a noisy occasion, the convicts and a band of Acapulco soldiers guarding them shouting in the ex- uberance of their patriotism, 'Long live Pacheco! Death to the Gachupines and foreigners !' Carrillo (J. ), Doc. Hist. Cul., MS., 29. A man named Gal- legos was drowned in the creek late this year. Id., 32.
4 Antonio Jaime, or Antonio Mariano Francisco Miguel Gaspar Jayme de Seguras, was born at Palma in the island of Mallorca in 1757. In a letter written by him in 1816 he gives many details of his school days and especially of his association with Juan B. Bestard, who, induced by Jaime's example,
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superintendence of the padres named the mission de- clined rapidly in nearly every element of prosperity, especially after the Indian troubles of 1824. The mission buildings were in excellent condition, and manufacturing industries under Ripoll had been more
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