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till several years later. Finally, on Dec. 

 4, 1786, the cross wa.s raised and blessed 

 by Fr. Lasuen at a place called Taynayan 

 by the natives, a mile or so from the pre- 

 sidio. Owing to it beingthe rainy season, 

 buildings were not begun initil later. By 

 1790 there were 438 neophytes. A church 

 18 X 90 ft, and numerous other buildings, 

 all roofed with tiles, had been completed. 

 In the next 10 years the number of neo- 

 phytes increased to only 864, though 1,237 

 were baptized and only 624 had died. 

 Probably some of the others had been 

 allowed to live in their own villages away 

 from the mission. A new church was 

 finished in 1794, and by 1800 quite a 

 number of new buildings had been 

 erected. At that time there were 60 neo- 

 phytes engaged in making and weaving 

 cloth, while a carpenter and a tanner 

 were regularly employed to teach the na- 

 tives those trades. Within the next few 

 years 234 adobe 

 houses were 

 erected for the 

 neophytes. In 

 1803 a mission 

 chapel was built 

 at San Miguel. 

 In 1801 an epi- 

 demic carried 

 off a great num- 

 ber of the na- 

 tives and caused 

 the neophytes, 

 through a pre- 

 tended revela- 

 tion of their 

 old deities, tem- 

 porarily to re- 

 nounce Chris- 

 tianity, though 

 the Fathers 

 knew nothing of this until later. The 

 greatest number of neophytes, 1,792, 

 was reached in 1803; in 1810 there 

 were 1,355. The crops were good, aver- 

 aging 6,216 bushels for the preceding 

 decade; the large stock numbered 5,670, 

 and small stock 8,190. During the fol- 

 lowing decade the crops increased some- 

 what, but the stock declined. The earth- 

 quake of 1812 injured rather seriously the 

 church, and a new one, 40 X 165 ft, was 

 begun in 1815, and completed and dedi- 

 cated in 1820. This is still standing. The 

 walls are 6 ft thick, of irregular sandstone 

 blocks laid in cement, Avhile the towers, 

 20 ft square, are, with the exception of a 

 narrow passageway in one of them, solid 

 masses of stone and cement to a height of 

 30 ft. In 1820 there were 1,132 neo- 

 phytes, in 1830 only 711. In 1824 there 

 was consideraV)le trouble with the neo- 

 phytes; a revolt had arisen at Santa Ines, 

 and the Indians from Santa Barbara de- 

 manded that the soldiers at the mission 

 leave their arms and withdraw to the pre- 



MISSION OF SANTA EARBARA, CALIFORNIA 



sidio. This demand finally led to a con- 

 flict, and the natives fled to the hills and 

 later to San Joacpiin valley. After the 

 revolt at Santa Ines and Purisima had 

 been quelled, the Indians were Anally in- 

 duced to return by the granting of a gen- 

 eral pardon. The padres and the church 

 property were at no time interfered with. 

 In 1834 there were 556 neophytes. The 

 total numljer of natives baptized up to 

 that time was 4,658, of whom 2,168 were 

 children. In 1840 there were still prob- 

 ably 250 ex-neophytes at the mission. 

 The mission continued prosperous even 

 after its secularization, and the buildings 

 were kept in better condition than at 

 other places. In 1843 it was returned to 

 the control of the padres, who, in 1844, re- 

 ported that they had the greatest difficulty 

 in supporting the 285 souls dependent 

 on them. In 1846 the mission was sold 

 for $7,500, thoncrh the principal buildings, 

 as elsewhere, 

 ^ remained in the 

 possession of 

 theChurch,and 

 have been bet- 

 ter preserved 

 than at any 

 other California 

 mission. The 

 Indians con- 

 nected with 

 Santa Barbara 

 belonged chief- 

 ly to the Chu- 

 mashan (q. v.) 

 linguistic fam- 

 ily, though 

 Yo kuts were 

 also probably 

 represented, 

 as many neo- 

 phytes are reported as coming from the 

 "Tulares." (a.b. l.) 



Santa Barbara. A former rancheria, 

 probably of the Papago, visited by Father 

 Kino in 1706; situated 4 m. s. w. of Bu- 

 sanic, near the headwaters of the n. 

 branch of Altar r., in Sonora, Mexico. — 

 Kino cited by Bancroft, No. Mex. States, 

 I, 501, 1884. 



Santa Catalina (Saint Catherine). A 

 mission tow^n, probably Yamasee, perhaps 

 on St Catherine id., Ga. Its inhabitants 

 revolted in 1687 against the Spaniards, 

 destroyed the mission, and fled to the 

 English in Carolina. 



Santa Catalina.— Barcia, Kn.sayo, 287, 1723. St. 

 Catherines.— Shea, Cath. Miss., 73, 1855. 



Santa Catalina. A former Tepehuane 

 pueblo in lat 25° 10^ Ion. 106°, N. w. 

 Durango, Mexico, the seat of a Jesuit mis- 

 sion founded by Geronimo Ramirez in 

 1596, but abandoned in 1616. — Orozco y 

 Berra, Geog., 318, 1864. 



Santa Catalina de los Yumas. A mission 

 founded by the Dominican Father Lori- 



