Inventory of the Guerra Family Papers, 1752-1955 (bulk 1806-1886)

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Inventory of the Guerra Family Papers, 1752-1955 (bulk 1806-1886)

The Huntington Library

San Marino, California

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Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: lgarcia@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554

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Descriptive Summary

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.

Administrative Information

Provenance

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.

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Publication Rights

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.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Guerra Family Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Biography

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).

Subject matter

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.
Cañón Perdido Affair:
- Revolt of the Californios.
  Date: 1848, Mar 11-July 4.
Frémont, John Charles:
- 2 letters to Pablo de la Guerra,
  Date: 1851, Aug.15-Dec. 28.
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.
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

Arrangement of collection

Box 1-23

Personal and political papers and correspondence of José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega, Pablo de la Guerra and other members of the De la Guerra family. Arranged alphabetically by author as follows:

Box 1

1-54 Abella - L. A. Argüello

Box 2

55-97 M. Argüello - Blake

Box 3

98-140 Bonilla - C. Carrillo

Box 4

141-202 D. Carrillo - Convin

Box 5

203-247 Cot - Downey

Box 6

248-303 Dryden - Forrester

Box 7

304-350 Fortuni - Grim

Box 8

351-392 A. de la Guerra - J. de la Guerra

Box 9

393-419 M. de la Guerra - Pablo de la Guerra

Box 10

420-481 Pablo de la Guerra - José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega

Box 11

482-523 Guevara - Humana

Box 12

524-579 Huse - Leandry

Box 13

580-642 Leffingwell - Martiarena

Box 14

643-676 Martin - Micheltorena

Box 15

677-724 Miranda - Olivera

Box 16

725-769 Ord - Payeras

Box 17

770-820 Payot - Reading

Box 18

821-851 Reed - Rubio

Box 19

852-884 Ruiz - Santa Barbara Presidio, Alcalde's Court

Box 20

885-922 Santa Barbara Presidio, Comandancia Militar - Society of Friends

Box 21

923-951 Solá - Suñol

Box 22

952-999 Talamantes - Vallejo

Box 23

1000-1046 Varela - Zestaje

Box 24-26

Business papers, documents, land papers. Papers pertaining to ranchos owned by the De la Guerra family. Family Christmas Play.

Box 24

1047-1058 Monterey Presidio - El Cojo Rancho

Box 25

1059-1080 El Conejo Rancho - Simi Rancho

Box 26

1081-1092 Todos Santos & San Antonio Rancho - Christmas Play

Box 27

1093-1100 Miscellaneous personal papers. Genealogical records

Box 28

1101-1125 Notes, fragments, printed items

Guerra Family photographs

Letters and documents copied from photostats belonging to Father Joseph Thompson.

Box 29-30

Personal papers of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo:

Box 29

1126-1158 Elena [?] - M. del R. Ortiz

Box 30

1159-1188 Pacheco - Vallejo

Folder Manila Folder

1189 Guerra y Noriega Family Genealogical Chart

Volume 5 Binders

1190-1194 Subject Index and Descriptive Calendar

Ships mentioned in collection

Acción (brigantine) 642

Activo (brigantine) 657, 701, 860, 1045

Adriatic 735

Águila (Eagle) (schooner) 38, 634, 924, 880

Albatross 746

El Alción (brigantine) 663, 777, 924, 1001

The Alert 833, 836

Alfred 263

América 929

Americana (sloop) 688

Angola 703

El Kosak (Apolonia) 253

Asia 649

Atala (frigate) 841

Aurora (brigantine) 642

Ayacucho (brigantine) 203, 634, 668

Ballenera (frigate) 663, 852

Barbarita 640

Black Hanion 834

Blopomo (frigate) 492

California (frigate) 1, 749, 833, 836

Calypso 1133

Catalina (brigantine) 634, 640, 1017

La Cazadora 852, 923

Centro América 262

Cesáreo Lataillade 621

Chato (brigantine) 556

Claudine (frigate (Brit.)) 203

Cleopatra 199, 649, 685, 904

Concepción (frigate) 62

Constitution (frigate) 663

Coronel (brigantine) 279

El Cosak (see El Kosak & Apolonia) 279, 663

El Dorado 416

Dorotea (goleta) 83, 203, 613, 640, 1108

Los Dos Hermanos (brigantine) 458, 904

Eliot 841

El Eliza 203

Ester (brigantine) 56, 836, 1001

Ester María (see María Ester) 533

Europa (brigantine) 203, 277, 904, 924

Fama 574

Flora (frigate) 66, 586

Fremont (brigantine) 519, 735, 397

Golden Age 416

Golden Gate 351

Goliat(h) 416, 495

Guadalupe (goleta) 492, 701, 137

Guipuscuana 10, 473, 621

Harbinger (brigantine) 492

Hermosa Mexicana (frigate) 923

Héroe (frigate) 492

La Hora 1045

Ynca 492

Index 24, 1051a

Isidro 351

Isabel 620

Joven Dorotea (sloop) 753

Junio 492

El Kosak (see Apolonia) 279

Kutmoff 277

Kutusof 923

Leonor 262

Lidia 746, 826, 923

Macedonia 649

MacKinley (Maquinle) 397

Margarita 579

Maria Ester 255, 640, 133

Mary 640

Matamoros (sloop) 642

McKim (steamship) 217

Mercante Flora 569

Mercury (account book of) 1047c

La Mexica 720, 923

La Mexicana 720, 923

Monsoon (frigate) 833

Morelos (brigantine) 279, 642, 852, 1001

Natalia 1135

Nieves (sloop) 642, 663

Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles 642, 923

Ohio 416, 487, 397

Orizaba 937

Pacífico 7

El Pájaro 351

Panamá 203

Panther 622, 663

Paz (corvette) 66

Paz y Religión (corvette) 1045

Peabody (brigantine) 997

Pedlar 923

Pescuela (brigantine) 56

Pizarro (brigantine) 492, 622

Plant 492

Plopona (frigate) 492

La Preciosa 586

Primavera 614

Princesa (frigate) 66, 243, 657

Quijote (frigate) 976

Quintanilla 262

La Reyna de Los Angeles (frigate) 78, 277, 649, 242, 852, 586, 923, 66

La Rosa (see Tagle) (frigate) 203, 243, 569, 668, 749, 510

El Ruberto (see San Ruberto) 582

Roves 799

Sachem 484

San Antonio (brigantine) 923

San Carlos (brigantine) 66, 222, 242, 275, 276, 279, 622, 642, 649, 650, 701, 769, 792, 852, 857, 874, 904, 923, 980, 1001, 1045

San Francisco (brigantine) 133, 149

San Francisco de Paula

(see Sta.Apolonia & Los Dos Hermanos) (brigantine) 279, 314, 634, 685, 904, 924, 880

San Francisco Xavier 924

San José (El Señoriano) identity with El Señoriano not clear

San Ruberto (see El Ruberto) 923

San Telmo 13

Santa Apolonia

also called: Santa Polonia, Santa Margarita, Santa Magdalena, Dorotea, Águila, Apolonia 253, 635, 880, 829, 868

Santa Barbara (sloop) 640, 753

Santa Eulalia (brigantine) 47, 48

Santa Polonia (see Sta. Apolonia) 262, 634, 994, 1120

Santa Rita 582

Santo Tomás (brigantine) 51

Sarita 555

Seabird 351, 416, 487, 771

Senator 173

El Señoriano (also San José) 224, 582, 622, 642, 663, 649, 720, 904, 924, 1001

Soledad (brigantine) 785

Sultan 923

Superior 386

Tagle (see La Rosa) (frigate) 66, 569

Tehama 834

Thomas Nowlan (frigate) 653

Toren Corina 1001

Vandalia 833

Vaquero 929

Vancouver 177

Veloz Manuela (schooner) 203

Victoriana 640

Voluntario 492

Wrangell 492

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