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SAN JUAN SAN JUAN BAUTISTA 



[b. a. e. 



Paku'parai.— Hodge, fieldnotes, B. A. E , 1895 ( Isleta 

 name). Pakuqhalai.— Ibid (Picurisname). Saint- 

 Jean des Chevaliers. — Cordova (1619) trans, in Ter- 

 naux-Comjians, Voy., x, 440, 1838 (French form). 

 San Juan.— Villa-Senor( 1748) quoted by Shea.Cath. 

 Miss., 82, 18.>5. San Juan de Cabalenos. — Donaldson, 

 Moqui Pueblo Inds.. 91. 1893 (misprint). San Juan 

 de los Caballeros. — Cordova (1619) trans, in Ter- 

 naux-Compaiis, Voy., x, 440, 1838; Villa-Senor, 

 Theatre Am., II, 418, 1748. San Juan de los Cabe- 

 Ueros. — Shea, Cath. Miss., 82, 1870 (misprint). San 

 Juaneros. — ten Kate, Reizen in N. A., 221, 1885. 

 San Juaners. — Davis, Span. Conq. of N. Mex., 259, 

 1869. Sant Joan.— Onate (1598) in Doc. In6d., 

 XVI, 256, 1871. Sant Joan Batista.— Ibid., 109, 

 116. S. lean.— Crepy, Map Amer. Sept., 1783(?). 

 S. Jean. — Vaugondy, Map Am^rique, 1778. 

 S. Joanne.— Morelli, Fasti Novi Orbis, 31, 1776. 

 S. John.— D'Anville, Map N. A., Bolton's ed., 1752. 

 St. Johns.— Heyleyn, Cosmography, 1072, 1703. 



San Juan. A Tiniucua mission town in 

 1688, named in a letter from the chiefs of 

 the tribe to the King of Spain (see copy 

 and translation in Gatschet, Timucua 

 Lang., in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, xviii, 

 497, 1880). It was visited by Dickenson 

 in 1699, and was apparently situated on 

 Little Talbot id., n. from St Augustine, 

 Fla. ' _ _(.T. M.) 



San Juan. An Apalachee mission town 

 in N. w. Florida during the latter half of 

 the 1 7th century. It was destroyed, with 

 others of the same tribe, by the English 

 and their Indian allies in the war of 

 1702-06. (j. M.) 



San Juan. An Opata village of Sonora, 

 Mexico, mentioned by Hrdlicka (Am. 

 Anthr., vi, 72, 1904) as one of the pue- 

 blos at which full-blood Opata may still 

 be found. 



San Juan. A collective term used to 

 designate the Indians formerly under San 

 Juan Bautista mission, San Benito co., 

 Cal. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr, 20, 

 1860. 



San Juan. A Cochimi visitation town 

 of the mission of San Jose de Comondu, 

 in lat. 26°, central Lower California, 

 in 1708. — Venegas, Hist. Cal., i, 404, 

 1759. 



San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Bap- 

 tist). The fifteenth Franciscan mission 

 established in California. The site was 

 chosen between San Carlos and Santa 

 Clara, about 6 m. from the present 

 town of Sargent, Santa Clara co. The 

 native name was Popelout, or Pope- 

 loutchom. Here some buildings had al- 

 ready been erected by men from Monte- 

 rey, and on June 24, 1797, President 

 Lasuen founded the new mission. By 

 the end of the year there had been 85 

 baptisms, and in 1800 the neophytes 

 numbered 516, These increased to 702 

 in 1810, 843 in 1820, and 1,248 in 1823, 

 after which the decline began. The 

 stock and crops prospered from the be- 

 ginning. In 1810 there were 6,175 large 

 stock and 9,720 small stock; in 1820, 

 11,700 and 9,530 respectively. The aver- 

 age crop for the decade ending 1810 was 



3,700 bushels; for that ending 1820, 3,300 

 bushels. In 1830 there was a consid- 

 erable decrease in stock, but tlie crops 

 remained good. For the first two or 

 three years after its founding the mission 

 had considerable trouble with the An- 

 saime, who lived in the mountains about 

 25 m. to the e. These were finally de- 

 feated and a number of captives brought 

 to the mission. A new mission church, 

 begun in 1803, was dedicated in 1812. 

 In 1832 there were 916 neophytes. The 

 total number of baptisms from the time 

 of its founding was 3,913, of whom 2,015 

 were children. In 1835, 63 Indians were 

 emancipated, but after that time there is 

 no further record. A number of whites 

 settled in the region, and the place be- 

 came known as the pueblo of San Juan 

 de Castro. In 1846 the orchard, all that 

 remained of the land improvements, was 

 sold. The buildings continued in pos- 

 session of the Catholic Church, and are 

 still in use. The Indians in the neigh- 

 borhood of San Juan Bautista belonged 

 to the Costanoan linguistic family. In 

 its later years it drew many of its neo- 

 phytes from San Joaquin valley, and the 

 Yokuts were probably well represented. 

 Garcia, according to Bancroft ( Hist. Cal., 

 II, 339, 1886), speaks of an expedition to 

 the Maripo-sas, the rancheria of Nopo- 

 chinches being named, in which 300 In- 

 dians of all ages and sexes w'ere brought 

 to San Juan Bautista. A list of the vil- 

 lages from which neophytes were drawn 

 follows (Bancroft, op. cit., i, 557, 1886; 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Nov. 25, I860), 

 although several of them also supplied 

 neophytes to San Carlos: Absayme 

 (Ansaimas, Ausaima = Ansaimes), Ab- 

 sayruc, Asystarca, Calendaruc (Kalinda- 

 ruk), Chapana, Echantac, Giguay, Gua- 

 churrones (Wacharones), Iratae, Jasniga, 

 Jeboaltae, Lithenca, Mitaldejama, Mots- 

 sum (Mutsun), Onextaco, Onixaymas, 

 Paisin (Pagosinesor Paysines), Popelout, 

 Pouxouoma, Poitokwis, Suricuama, Ta- 

 marox, Teboaltac (= Jeboaltae), Thi- 

 thirii, Tipisastac (Tipsistana=Tipsistaca), 

 Trutca, Unijaima, Utchuchu, Xisca (or 

 Xixcaca), Xivirca, Yelmus. (a. b. l.) 



San Juan Bautista (so named by Onate, 

 who reached it on St John's day, June 

 24, 1.598). Formerly a small pueblo on 

 the Rio Grande, 16 m. above Sevilleta, 

 N. Mex., at the site of the present Sabinal. 

 Whether it was a Piro or a Tigua settle- 

 ment is not known, since it was near the 

 boundary of the territory of those two 

 groups. In 1626 Sevilleta was mentioned 

 as the last Piro settlement to the N. ; 

 therefore if San Juan Bautista belonged 

 to that tribe it was abandoned between 

 1598 (the date of Ofiate's visit) and 

 1626. (F. w. H.) 



