34 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



In September, 1775, padre Francisco Miguel Sanchez took Paterna's 

 place, and remained until July 27, 1803, when he died. Padre Calzada 

 was also here until 1792. 



1792-93 : Padre Cristobal Oramas. 



1794-96: Padre Juan Martin. 



1798-99 : Padre Juan Lope Cortes. 



July, 1797 to October, 1802 : Padre Pedro de San Jose Esteban. 



In 1775-76 the Mission was removed to its present location, the Indian 

 village of Sibag-na being near this site. An adobe structure was built here 

 for a church at first, but its walls cracked and became unsafe, and the pro- 

 ject of building a stone church was commenced. The records are strangely 

 and stupidly meager ; but it appears that in 1794 the stone church was about 

 half completed: and in 1800 it was still unfinished. {Hist. Cal., Vol. /, p. 

 664..) Of the present location J. Albert Wilson writes : 



' ' The site now occupied by the San Gabriel Mission buildings and the 

 adjacent village, was a complete forest of oaks, with considerable under- 

 wood. The water composing the lagoon of the mill (one and a half miles 

 distant) then lodged in a hollow near the Mission on the Los Angeles road. 

 This hollow was a complete thicket of sycamores, cottonwood, larch, ash, 

 and willow ; and was almost impassable from the dense undergrowth of 

 brambles, nettles, palmacristi, wild rose and wild vines. Cleared of these 

 encumbrances, this land (which then possessed a rich black soil, though 

 now a sandy waste) served to grow the first crops ever produced in Los An- 

 geles county. [Note. — This is a mistake, for some corn, beans, barley, and 

 garden stuff had been raised at Old Mission, before the removal — Ed.] 

 Near by stood the Indian village Sibag-na. Bears innuinerable [?] prowled 

 about the dwellings, and deer sported in the neighborhood." — Thompson & 

 West Hist. Los A. Co., p. 20. 



1802 to 1804 : Padre Isidoro Barcenilla. 



In 1803-04, and again from 1806 to January 14, 181 1, when he died, 

 padre Francisco Dumetz was here. He had been forty years a missionary, 

 and was the last survivor in California of the original band that came here 

 with Father Junipero Serra. 



1803 to 1813 : Padre Jose de Miguel. Then he went to San Fernando 

 Mission, and died there June 2, 18 14. 



From August, 1804, to September, 1806 : Padre Jose Antonio Urresti. 



In 1806 Padre Jose Maria Zalvidea was placed in charge of this Mis- 

 sion ; and for twenty years he pushed its development and managed its af- 

 fairs with vigor and rigor and masterful ability. He was a severe and rigid 

 disciplinarian ; he worked hard himself and made everybody else work hard ; 

 some of his regulations, both religious and secular, were diabolically harsh, 

 cruel and torturous; the Indians both male and female were reduced to a con- 

 dition of virtual slavery, under taskmasters armed with buUwhips made from 

 strips of rawhide. Any show of resistance was punished with ruthless 



