their local chief, and Echeandía hoped he might now safely send Herrera out of the territory. Respecting the banishment of Padre Martinez, I shall speak in the following chapter.[1]
On May 9, 1830, the American bark Volunteer, John Coffin Jones, Jr., master, sailed from Monterey with fifteen prisoners on board to be delivered at San Blas. Herrera was confined to a room constructed for the purpose on deck; Solis and the rest were in irons.[2] We have no particulars about the reception of the prisoners by the Mexican authorities, but it is certain that they were discharged from custody without punishment.[3] Three at least of the soldiers, Torre, Véjar, and one of the Altamiranos, found their way back to California in later years; while Herrera, in spite of all Echeandía's accusations and precautions, was soon sent back, as we shall see, to take his old position as comisario de hacienda. California's first revolution was over, and little harm had been done.[4]
- ↑ Feb. 23d, Echeandía reported to min. of war the pacification of the territory, begged most earnestly for aid, and announced the fact that the revolution had really been in the interests of Spain. St. Pap., Sac. , MS. , x. 61-3. April 7th, order from Mexico that Solis and his seven companions be tried for treason. Also thanks to E. for having suffocated the revolt. Sup. Gort St. Pap., MS., vi. 8. Miscellaneous communications respecting the trial in addition to those contained in the Proceso, in Dept. St. Pap., MS., ii. 127-130; Dept. Rec., MS., viii. 13, 22, 32, 36, 78.
- ↑ May 7, 1830, receipt of Jones for the 15 prisoners, as follows: José María Herrera, Joaquin Solis, Meliton Soto, Serapio Escamilla, Raimundo de la Torre, Pablo Véjar, Victoriano Altamirano, Gonzalo Altamirano, Leonardo Arceo, Mariano Peguero, Andrés Leon, Máximo Guerra, Antonio Guevara, Gracia Larios, Inés Polanco. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxxii. 17-18. Sailing of the Volunteer on May 9th. Id., lxii. 28. Pattie, Narr., 238-9, also sailed on the Volunteer, and names Capt. Wm. H. Hinckley as having been on board and leaving the vessel at S. Blas. The prisoners reached Tepic May 22d. Guerra, Doc., MS., vi. 129. Those belonging to the Monterey cavalry company were dropped from the company rolls in 1836. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxxxii. 65. Six other men had been sent away from Sta Bárbara in February in the Emily Marsham, 3 of them, Joaquin García, José M. Arenas, and Antonio Peña, for complicity in the Solis affair. Dept. Rec., MS., viii. 74.
- ↑ Torre, Reminis., MS., 19-21, says that his brother Raimundo was tried by court-martial and acquitted; whereupon the rest were discharged without trial.
- ↑ The Solis revolt is described more or less fully in the following narratives, in addition to such as have been cited in the preceding pages: Ávila, Cosas, MS., 25-8; Bandini, Hist. Cal., MS., 71-2; Amador, Mem., MS., 86-90; Fernandez, Cosas de Cal., MS., 59-64; Pico, Hist. Cal., MS., 20; Castro, Rel., MS., 19-23; Pinto, Apunt., MS., 2; Valdés, Mem., MS., 18-20. It is men-
