Cartas y Informes
Transcript of a letter to Anza regarding the mission
Collection area: Borderlands
Collection dates: 1768-1816
Photocopies of typed transcriptions of 13 letters and reports written by missionaries in Pimería Alta, Sonora, and Chihuahua, from 1768 to 1816. Some letters are addressed to their superiors at Querétaro; others are to include Captain Juan Bautiste de Anza, Governor Juan Claudio de Pineda, and Father President Juan Crisóstomo Gil de Bernabé.
The sources were compiled by Father Kieran McCarty, a priest and scholar associated with the Academy of Franciscan History, Washington, D.C.
Franciscan priests and the mission areas where they were writing: Garcés at San Xavier del Bac; Roche at Cocóspera and Terrenate; Diaz at Caborca; Agorreta at Saric; Salazar at Ures; Soler at Ati; Font at Imuris; Morfi at Chihuahua; Iturralde at Tubutama; and Davalos at Tecoripa.
All letters in Spanish, except two translated into English.
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