GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-75

California State Archives
1020 鈥淥鈥 Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone 916-653-7715
Alternate website: Online Archive of California

 

Hours: See website

Access: No restrictions

Copying facilities: Yes

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1784-1902

Volume: Ca. .2 cubic foot

Description: 5 series and collections include Native Catholic records:

 

/1 鈥淪eries 159, Spanish Census and Customhouse Records鈥

Inclusive dates: 1796-1798, 1834

Volume: 2 folders and 1 reel of microfilm

Description: Details inhabitants in given years; 51 pages; in Spanish

A. Presidio Districts [with missions], 1798: San Diego, Santa B谩rbara, Monterey, and San Francisco

B. Missions: San Carlos Borromeo de Carmel (Esselen and Ohlone), 1796; San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (Chumash and Yokuts), 1797-1798; San Antonio de Padua (Chumash and Yokuts), 1798; and Nuestra Se帽ora de la Soledad (Esselen, Ohlone and Yokuts), 1798

 

/2 鈥淪eries 160, Spanish Archives: Spanish-Mexican Land Grant Records鈥

Inclusive dates: 1784-1846

Volume: Less than 5% of 19 oversize volumes and 8 reels of microfilm

Description: Records to lands in California granted by Spain and Mexico; includes Franciscan mission lands and related petitions from Native Americans (e.g. Cahuilla, Cupe帽o, Kumiai, Ohlone) and non-Native Americans; arranged alphabetically by surname of grant and grantee or petitioner and numerically by case numbers

A. Spanish-Mexican Expedientes [petitions for land grants], 8 volumes; in Spanish

B. Translation of Spanish/Mexican Expedientes, 8 volumes; in English

C. Dise帽os [maps of lands granted], 2 volumes D. Official Register of Land Grants, 1839-1840; 1 volume; copy from California State Library, Sacramento, California

 

/3 鈥淪eries 161, Surveys of Original Spanish Grants by U.S. Surveyor General鈥

Inclusive dates: 1855-1875

Volume: Few items within 5 oversize volumes

Description: Map drafts and copies by the U.S. Surveyor General, including those of Franciscan missions in California; Archbishop J.S. [Joseph Sadoc] Alemany, O.P. [Dominicans] was the grantee for most mission land grants.

 

/4 鈥淚ndexes of Witnesses and Maps and Dise帽os in Spanish-Mexican Land Grant Cases, Series 163鈥

Inclusive dates: Between 1784-1846

Volume: Few cards within several card drawers

Description: 3 x 5-inch card index to case files of private California land grants made by Spain and Mexico, including those of Franciscan missions; arranged alphabetically by surname of witnesses and numerically by case numbers.

 

/5 鈥淢unsey Photograph Collection, F3938:62-86鈥

Inclusive dates: 1900-1902

Volume: Few prints

Description; San Luis Rey de Francia, San Juan Capistrano, San Diego de Alcal谩, and Santa B谩rbara Missions in California.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the 向日葵视频 Archives.

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