Papeles relativos a los Jesuitas en Baja California y otras regiones septentrionales de la Nueva España

MS 223

Collection area: Borderlands

Collection dates: 1686-1793

About this collection

One volume of typed transcriptions of 14 reports, 1686-1793. They discuss the geographical relation of the missions to towns and other missions, the priests who previously served at them, the building of the churches, the number of people in the area, and the number of people baptized.

Reports in Spanish; some English summaries.

Historical background

All Jesuit priests at Baja Californian and other northern Mexican missions: Pedro Roque de Andonaequi at Temeíchic; Felipe Calderón at Santa María de las Cuevas; Francisco Diáz de Valdez at Misión de Santa Cruz; José de Escalona at Santa María de Sisoguíchic; Fernández de Abeé at Misión de Jesús Cárichic; Antonio de Ydiáquez at Nonoava; José Miqueo at Pamáchic; Francisco Osorio at Papigóchic; Francisco Javier Ramos at San Pablo; José Luis Salmubelli at Moris; Luis Téllez Girón at San Francisco Borja; and an unidentified person at Tomóchic.

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