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Report by the visitor to the viceroy of his visit to the California missions. 
Loreto, Feb. 14, 1730. 
Various letters from the missionaries of Lower California to the visitor, 
Echeverria. 1730. 
Cartas Annuas. 1730-1738. Others for different years. 
Jacobo Sedelmayr to the provincial, Andrés Xavier Garcia. Jan., 1750. 
“Relacion breve de la micion de Cinaloa ”, by Diego Guzman. 
(It begins with 1527. Divided into eh anerey 
Report by Francisco Serrano, of the Partido de los Remedios. Undated. 
Vol. 311. “ Jesuitas. 1617-1623.” Relations and autos of the uprising of the 
Tepeguanes of Sinaloa. Among the relations are accounts of the 
martyrdom of various Jesuits during the revolt. 
Internal affairs of the order. 
Vols. 312-814. “ Cofradias y Hermandades.” 1775-17091. 
Vol. 316. “ Jesuitas. 1617-1676.” 
(Important papers for the history of the Jesuit missions of Sinaloa and 
Sonora for the period. A number of them are letters, relations and 
autos by Captain Diego Martinez de Surdaide to the viceroy, written 
in Sonora about 1620-1622. Notable items are indicated below.) 
Relation of the conquest of Sinaloa, by Alférez Antonio Ruiz. (Ap- 
parently original.) 38 ff. 
(A note by Diego Guzman indicates that Ruiz was one of the first con- 
querors of Sinaloa.) 
“ Carta y rrelacion ”, by Diego Martinez de Surdaide. Sinaloa, May 25, 
7622...( Original.) 7 ff: 
An ancient relation of Sinaloa. Unsigned and undated. 
Another by Martinez de Surdaide. 
“ Apologetica Defensorio y Puntual Manifiesto ’ of the fathers of Sina- 
loa and Sonora. 1657. (Original.) 4o ff. 
Id. 1657. 67 ff. 
Vols. 317, 319. “ Curatos. 1770-1785.” Curacies. 
Vol. 320. Records of the ayuntamiento of the Villa of Bahia del Espiritu 
Santo. Texas, 1821-1835. About 300 ff. 
Vol. 821. Royal cédulas and correspondence of the viceroy with respect to 
Texas and Louisiana. 1631-1793. 
(Evidently a part of the Talamantes collection of extracts of cédulas and 
correspondence, of which other portions are in volumes 298, 299, this 
section. ) 
Vol. 322. “ Monte de Piedad.” 
Vol. 324. “ Californias.” Pacific coast explorations. 1774-1775. 
(Cf. p. tot for related material.) 
Correspondence of the viceroy with Juan Pérez, Francisco Hijosa, and 
Bruno de Hezeta concerning the movement of vessels. 1774-1775. 
Diary of Bruno de Hezeta. 1775. Two copies, one unsigned, but ap- 
parently original. About too ff. 
Id. of Bodega y Quadra, in the Sonora. 1775. 
Id. of Juan Joseph Pérez Hernandez, in the Santiago or Nueva Galicia. 
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Id. of ee Antonio Mourelle, in the Sonora. 1775. 
Id. of P. Fr. Miguel de la Campa, in the Santiago. 1775. 
Autos of possession of different places on the coast, by Hezeta. 1775; 
Vol. 325. “ Sobre reestablecimiento de la Compafiia de Testis.” 1816. 
Vol. 826. “ Revoluciones. 1787-1810.” 
