88 Mexico: Archivo General 
6. Correspondence of the governor of Coahuila concerning the appoint- 
ment of the Marqués de las Amarillas as viceroy. 1758. 9 ff. 
(Complimentary letters, etc.) 
7. Appointment of Lorenzo Cancio Sierra y Cienfuegos as captain of 
the presidio of Santa Rosa. 1758. 78 ff. 
8,9, and 10. Affairs of Santa Rosa, Coahuila. 1762, 1767, 1774. 
(In 1774 Col. Parrilla was commander at Santa Rosa.) 
11. “ Ynstruccién dada al comand* de los nuevos Establecim*® de Cali- 
fornias, en Agosto 17 de 1773.” (Original.) About 18 ff.; 43 
paragraphs. 
(Cited by Bancroft under a different title. Hist. Cal., I. 216.) 
12. Delivery at Saltillo, by the captain of Bahia del Espiritu Santo, of a 
party of captive Indians, part of whom fled. 1773. 21 ff. 
13. Correspondence of Rafael Pacheco, of San Fernando de Austria, 
concerning a battle of 38 soldiers with 350 Indians. June-Aug., 
1773: 
14. Communications relative to the delivery and receipt of the presidios 
of Santa Rosa and San Juan Bautista. 1769. 47 ff. 
(Contains an estado of San Saba, Mar. 31, 1769, and Texas correspondence 
for 1772.) 
23. Mainly California material, 1774-1776, 1816, 1821, 1822. 
I. Report by the viceroy, Felix Maria Calleja, to the king, on the state 
of the Californias, the establishment of the Russians at Bodega 
Bay, and the lack of arms in New Spain. Reply of the king. 1816. 
(Copy.) 12 ff. 
. Report of the governors of the Californias on the condition of the 
provinces and the need of defense against the Russians and other 
enemies. 1816. 71 ff. 
3. Reports obtained by the commander of Mazatlan concerning the war 
for independence in South America. 1816. 27 ff. 
Report of a junta de guerra held at San Blas to consider repairing 
the coast vessels and aiding California, for fear of an attack by 
the insurgents of Buenos Ayres. 1816. 
4. Report remitted by the intendant of Guadalajara, Antonio Andrade, 
to the regency of the empire [of Mexico], on the state of both 
Californias. 1821. 23 ff. 
(The Californias have not embraced the cause of independence. It is 
feared that because of their isolation and neglect they may be taken by 
some foreign power.) 
5. Appointment, by the regency of the empire, of Agustin Fernandez de 
San Vicente, rationer of the church of Durango, as commissioner 
to the Californias to report to the governors and the missionaries 
there the true state of the empire and to induce them to declare for 
independence. Related correspondence. 1821-1822. 80 ff. 
(Made in consequence of the reports mentioned in 4, above. If the gov- 
ernors do not yield, the commissioner carries authority from Iturbide 
to remove them and appoint others.) 
6. Diary by Juan Bautista de Anza of his expedition from Sonora to 
Alta California. Jan. 8 to Sept. 27,1774. 110 ff. 
(Fine covey made in Mexico by Melchor de Peramas, 1777. Cf. no. 6, 
p. 50. 
Accompanying correspondence, including original: 
Letter from Fray Francisco Garcés to the viceroy, Aug. 17, 1774. 
Letter from Anza to the viceroy, June 4, 1774. 
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