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Title: Guerra Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1752-1955 (bulk 1806-1886)
Creator:
Guerra Family
Extent: 4,179 pieces
Repository: The Huntington Library
San Marino, California 91108
Language:
English.
The original collection from which these copies were made belongs to and is deposited in the archives of the Santa Barbara
Mission. Xerox copies were made by permission of Father Maynard Geiger, O.F.M., Mission Library Archivist, who also supplied
to the Huntington Library a copy of the descriptive calendar or list of the collection material with a brief description in
English of the contents of each document. The list was given to this Library to facilitate the use of the documents by Library
staff members and readers. FAC 667 (1190-1194)
Enclosed with the paper copy of this report is a copy of an article, "History of the Santa Barbara De la Guerra Family Documents,"
by Maynard F. Geiger, O.F.M., published in the
Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Vol. LIV, No. 3, Fall 1972.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information
please go to following
URL .
Copies of selected documents may be made for reference purposes only, but it is understood that the Library should notify
the Archivist at Mission Santa Barbara if a reader intends to publish a book or article, or write a thesis involving the use
of this collection. Permission to quote from or publish any document or part thereof should be requested directly from Santa
Barbara Mission.
[Identification of item], Guerra Family Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Facsimile copies of the personal, political, land and legal papers of José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega (1779-1858) and
his descendants, who formed one of California's outstanding pioneer families. Don José Antonio went to Mexico from his native
Spain in 1792. He entered military service as a cadet at an early age, later rising to the rank of captain. In 1801 he transferred
to California where he was
habilitado of Monterey and later of San Diego. He was comandante of the Santa Barbara Presidio from 1815 until his retirement in 1842.
He also engaged in shipping, commercial and other business enterprises, acquired ranchos, and was influential in politics
and government during his entire lifetime. In addition he was treasurer of the Franciscan missions in California and a close
friend of the missionaries. He was married to Antonia María Juliana Carrillo, daughter of Raimundo Carrillo and Tomasa (Lugo)
Carrillo. Of their 13 children, 9 survived their father. Of their sons, only Pablo became prominent in California public life.
The collection consists of the papers of Don José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega, of Pablo de la Guerra (1819-1875), who was
active in politics and government during the early decades of the American period of California history, and of other members
of the De la Guerra family. Most of the letters and documents are in Spanish.
A separate sub-collection is formed by the Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo papers (FAC 667, folders 1126-1188, Boxes 29 and 30).
In addition there is a group of 20 documents, copies of photostates belonging to Father Joseph Thompson, the originals of
which, at one time, may have formed part of the Guerra Family Collection (FAC 667, folders 1105-1125).
- Accounts and business papers
- Genealogical data
- Hide and tallow trade, Pacific coast commerce (see list of Ships)
- Indians: tribal, mission, presidial, uprisings
- Land: development, grants, titles, legal matters pertaining to, ranchos
- Legal matters: wills, probates, complaints, etc.
- Missions and missionaries
- Official documents: presidios, governmental, political
- Politics and government: California, U.S., Mexico, Spain, Europe, South America
- Miscellaneous subjects: earthquakes, droughts; epidemics--cholera; pioneer families; postal service; Russians in California; schools and education; social life and customs.
Important or interesting items
- Bouchard Invasion:
- 5 letters from José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega to missionaries.
Date: 1818, Oct. 7,11 & Dec. 7,9.
- Letters from Pablo Vicente de Solá to José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega.
Date: 1815-1819.
- Letters from José Señán to José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega.
Date: 1813-1822.
- 5 letters from José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega to missionaries.
- Cañón Perdido Affair:
- Revolt of the Californios.
Date: 1848, Mar 11-July 4.
- Revolt of the Californios.
- Frémont, John Charles:
- 2 letters to Pablo de la Guerra,
Date: 1851, Aug.15-Dec. 28.
- 2 letters to Pablo de la Guerra,
- Reed Family Murders:
- 26 pieces, letters and documents dealing with (see Item 821)
- Sherman, William Tecumseh:
- Letters to Angustias (de la Guerra) Jimeno Ord and Pablo de la Guerra.
Date: 1853, Nov. 6, and 1856, Feb.15 & Dec. 15.
- 2 letters in the Cañón Perdido Affair papers.
- Letters to Angustias (de la Guerra) Jimeno Ord and Pablo de la Guerra.
- Vallejo papers:
- 5 letters from Juan Bautista Alvarado to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.
- 81 letters from María Amparo (Ruiz) Burton to Vallejo. Very interesting. Knew President and Mrs. Lincoln. Discusses Ranchos Ensenada and Jamul.
- Bear Flag Revolt: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo to R. Augustus Thompson.
Date: 1878, Sep.Describes personal experience.
- Agoston Haraszthy to Vallejo asking for the hands of Natalia and Jovita Vallejo for his sons Atila and Arpad.
Date: 1863, Mar. 9[was successful]
Correspondents represented by 5 or more pieces
- Abella, Ramón
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1816-1838
- Abrego, José
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1847-1856
- Aguirre, José Antonio
- 24 pieces,
Date: 1834-1860
- Ahumada, Tomás de
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1815-1818
- Alemany, Joseph Sadoc, Apb.
- 28 pieces,
Date: 1851-1879
- Altimira, José
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1820-1822
- Alvarado, Juan Bautista
- 15 pieces,
Date: 1837-1881
- Argüello, José Darío
- 19 pieces,
Date: 1812-1825
- Argüello, Luis Antonio
- 30 pieces,
Date: 1818-1859
- Argüello, María de la Concepción
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1818-1849
- Argüello, Santiago
- 59 pieces,
Date: 1816-1849
- Arrillaga, José Joaquín
- 38 pieces,
Date: 1801-1813
- Arroyo de la Cuesta, Felipe
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1818-1829
- Bancroft, Hubert Howe
- 12 pieces,
Date: 1875-1879
- Bandini, José
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1819
- Bandini, Juan
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1825-1842
- Bellangé, Alejandro
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1855
- Burton, María Amparo (Ruiz)
- 90 pieces,
Date: 1851-1887
- Cabot, Juan Vicente
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1816-1819
- Cabot, Pedro
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1815-1836
- Carrillo, Anastasio
- 42 pieces,
Date: 1820-1860
- Carrillo, Carlos Antonio de Jesús
- 25 pieces,
Date: 1818-1848
- Carrillo, Domingo Antonio Ignacio
- 19 pieces,
Date: 1816-1835
- Carrillo, Joaquín
- 23 pieces,
Date: 1835-1861
- Carrillo, José Antonio Ezequiel
- 23 pieces,
Date: 1818-1845
- Carrillo, José Gertrudis
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1834-1861
- Carrillo, Raimumo
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1836-1861
- Castro, José
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1840-1846
- Cortina, Soledad Adalida de Gómez de la
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1874-1877
- Cot, Antonio José
- 33 pieces,
Date: 1820-1850
- Cota, Guillermo
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1817-1825
- Covarrubias, José María
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1845-1861
- Covington, Elam
- 12 pieces,
Date: 1851-1854
- Danglada, Domingo
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1843-1856
- Downey, John Gately
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1860-1861
- Durán, Narciso
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1830-1845
- Echeandía, José María de
- 17 pieces,
Date: 1825-1830
- Ercilla, Antonio María de
- 16 pieces,
Date: 1834-1843
- Estrada, José Mariano
- 20 pieces,
Date: 1816-1826
- Estudillo, José María
- 44 pieces,
Date: 1814-1827
- Fernald, Charles
- 14 pieces,
Date: 1854-1870
- Fernández de Ulibarri, Román
- 13 pieces,
Date: 1819-1821
- Gil y Taboada, Luis
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1816-1830
- González, Pedro
- 14 pieces,
Date: 1815-1820
- González de Ibarra, Francisco
- 18 pieces,
Date: 1821-1830
- González Rubio, José María de Jesús
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1846-1860
- Guerra, Antonio María de la
- 105 pieces,
Date: 1844-1872
- Guerra, Delfina de la
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1893-1913
- Guerra, Francisco de la
- 22 pieces,
Date: 1850-1872
- Guerra, Joaquín de la
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1855-1865
- Guerra y Carrillo, José Antonio de la
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1842-1860
- Guerra, Juan José de la
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1826-1873
- Guerra, Miguel de la
- 18 pieces,
Date: 1854-1860
- Guerra, Pablo de la
- 210 pieces,
Date: 1839-1873
- Guerra y Noriega, José Antonio de la
- 209 pieces,
Date: 1806-1858
- Guerra Family documents
- 22 pieces,
Date: 1850-1860
- Guerra Estate papers
- 47 pieces,
Date: 1875-1926
- Gutiérrez, Manuel
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1822-1823
- Halleck, Henry Wager
- 56 pieces,
Date: 1849-1861
- Hartnell, William Edward Petty
- 49 pieces,
Date: 1823-1851
- Hubert, Numa
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1851-1864
- Huse, Charles Enoch
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1859-1869
- Jaime y Guerra, Antonio
- 12 pieces,
Date: 1806-1822
- Jimeno Casarín, Antonio
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1858-1863
- Jimeno, José Antonio
- 9 pieces,
Date: 1840-1864
- Jimeno, José Joaquín
- 20 pieces,
Date: 1833-1857
- Jimeno, Porfirio J
- 18 pieces,
Date: 1861-1867
- Jimeno Casarín, Manuel
- 15 pieces,
Date: 1839-1852
- Larkin, Thomas Oliver
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1843-1855
- Lataillade, Cesáreo
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1842-1848
- Lies, Eugene
- 16 pieces,
Date: 1853-1869
- Machado, Juan Nepomuceno
- 9 pieces,
Date: 1829-1844
- Maitorena, José Joaquín
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1816-1822
- Malagrida, Antonio
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1845-1853
- Malarín, Juan
- 29 pieces,
Date: 1820-1845
- Mancisidor, Juan Ignacio
- 16 pieces,
Date: 1822-1832
- Martiarena, Juan Bautista de
- 17 pieces,
Date: 1828-1833
- Martiarena, Juan de
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1814-1825
- Martín, Juan
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1816-1821
- Martínez, Ignacio
- 9 pieces,
Date: 1816-1829
- Martínez, Luis Antonio
- 124 pieces,
Date: 1815-1830
- Medina, José
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1819-1825
- Menchaca, José Ramón jnt. author with: Martiarena, María (Pintado) de and Martiarena, Rafaela (Ticó) de
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1833-1836
- Michetorena, Manuel
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1842-1844
- Moraga, Gabriel
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1819-1823
- Morán, Antonio
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1804-1820
- Moreno, Juan
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1836-1839
- Muñoz, Pedro
- 30 pieces,
Date: 1815-1818
- Narváez, José María
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1814-1831
- Noriega, José Antonio de
- 13 pieces,
Date: 1807-1810
- Nuez, Joaquín Pascual
- 17 pieces,
Date: 1816-1821
- Olbés, Ramón
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1815-1821
- Ord, Angustias (de la Guerra) Jimeno
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1846-1880
- Ord, James L. & Ord, Angustias (etc.)
- 42 pieces,
Date: 1858-1862
- Ordaz, Blas
- 9 pieces,
Date: 1820-1837
- Oreña, Gaspar de
- 28 pieces,
Date: 1842-1866
- Payeras, Mariano
- 79 pieces,
Date: 1815-1822
- Peachy, Archibald Cary
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1851-1871
- Peyrí, Antonio
- 9 pieces,
Date: 1816-1829
- Pico, Andrés
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1848-1863
- Pico, Pío
- 17 pieces,
Date: 1844-1882
- Pineda, José Miguel
- 26 pieces,
Date: 1815-1822
- Ramírez, José
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1823-1826
- Reed (William) Family
- 26 pieces,
Date: 1847-1850,(papers dealing with murderers of...)
- Ripoll, Antonio
- 15 pieces,
Date: 1815-1824
- Robinson, Alfred
- 37 pieces,
Date: 1834-1873
- Robinson, Ana María (de la Guerra)
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1838-1854
- Rodríguez, Antonio Catarino
- 28 pieces,
Date: 1815-1824
- Ruiz, Francisco María
- 54 pieces,
Date: 1810-1825
- Ruiz, José Manuel
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1814-1823
- Ruiz de Apodaca, Juan (Conde del Venadito)
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1817-1820
- San Luis Obispo Mission
- 15 pieces,
Date: 1831-1836,(re debt of Urbano Sánchez, owner of "Sta. Apolonia")
- Sánchez, Francisco de Jesús
- 14 pieces,
Date: 1849-1861
- Sánchez, José Bernardo
- 18 pieces,
Date: 1815-1829
- "Santa Apolonia" (Ship)
- 12 pieces,
Date: 1822-1827
- Santa Barbara Presidio. Comandancia Militar
- 21 pieces,
Date: 1815-1839
- Santa Barbara Presidio, Compañía de Caballería Permanente
- 9 pieces,
Date: 1840-1842
- Santa Barbara Co. (Calif.) Board of Supervisors
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1857-1863
- Sarría, Vicente Francisco de
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1816-1821
- Señán, José
- 69 pieces,
Date: 1813-1822
- Solá, Pablo Vicente de
- 94 pieces,
Date: 1815-1823
- Somellera, A. P.
- 11 pieces,
Date: 1854-1855
- Sprague, Thomas
- 30 pieces,
Date: 1866-1874
- Suñer, Francisco
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1820-1827
- Thompson, Alpheus Basil
- 5 pieces,
Date: 1854-1859
- Torre y Enterría, José Joaquín de la
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1801-1824
- Ulloa, Gonzalo
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1817-1820
- Uría, Francisco Xavier
- 99 pieces,
Date: 1815-1825
- Urquides, Encarnación
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1824
- Valle, Antonio
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1823-1824
- Vallejo, Ignacio
- 9 pieces,
Date: 1818-1823
- Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe
- 80 pieces,
Date: 1839-1885
- Ver Mehr, Fanny
- 10 pieces,
Date: 1859-1872
- Varela, Manuel
- 9 pieces,
Date: 1820-1829
- Virmond, Henry Edward
- 6 pieces,
Date: 1829-1839
- Vitoria, Marcos Antonio de
- 24 pieces,
Date: 1817-1835
- Whittlesey, Elisha
- 8 pieces,
Date: 1851-1855
- Yorba, Tomás Antonio
- 29 pieces,
Date: 1834-1836
- Zaldo, Ramón de
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1874
- Zalvidea, José María de
- 12 pieces,
Date: 1815-1824
- Zestaje, Juan José de
- 7 pieces,
Date: 1808-1816
Bibliography on the de la Guerra Family
Geiger, Maynard F., O.F.M. "History of the Santa Barbara De la Guerra Family Documents",
Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Vol. LIV, No. 3, Fall 1972.
Robinson, Alfred.
The Letters of Alfred Robinson to the De la Guerra Family of Santa Barbara (1834-1873). Translated by Maynard F. Geiger, O.F.M., 1972.
Thompson, Joseph.
El Gran Capitán: José de la Guerra. 1961