Report
Collection area: Borderlands
Collection dates: 1772
Typescript translation of report on existing conditions in the missions of Sonora administered by the Fathers of the Propagation of the Faith College of the Holy Cross in Queretaro, Mexico. Describes each mission and village including number and lifestyle of Native Americans; livestock, farming and crops; and Mission church and other buildings. Includes a biographical sketch by Kieran R. McCarty, 1958.
Spanish Franciscan assigned to the Curcurbe Mission in 1768; consecrated the first Bishop of Sonora, Sinaloa, and the two Californias in 1782.
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