Americans should be the least numerous, and be located in the central parts.[1] A little later, however, foreigners of adjacent countries were prohibited from colonization on the frontier.[2] It is not certain that any resident foreigner had yet obtained his final and complete papers of naturalization; though a few may have done so, and many had made application and complied with all the preliminary requirements, receiving certificates which served all practical purposes.[3] Newcomers of this final year of the decade were fifty, of whom twenty-four named in a note may be regarded as pioneers proper.[4] The arrival of Kit Carson this year is doubtful. Bee, Jones, Nye, Snook, and Young were the names best known in the annals of later years. Some details about all the men named in this chapter and many visitors not here named may be found in the Pioneer Register appended to these volumes. That register will also serve as an index through which may be found all that is recorded of any early Californian in this work.
- ↑ Feb. 2, 1830, Alaman to E. Sup. Govt St. Pap., MS., vi. 4.
- ↑ Law of April 6, 1830, in Halleck's Report, 121-2. Article 7 of the law of Aug. 18, 1824, was thereby repealed.
- ↑ The naturalization regulations, probably of 1828, are given in Schmidt's Civil Law of Spain and Mexico, 353-9, in Spanish and English. The general purport had been circulated by Echeandía on June 4, 1829. Dept. St. Pap., MS., xix. 20-1. These rules prescribed in substance that any foreigner of two years' residence might, one year after having announced his intention, obtain a carta de naturaleza from the gov. by renouncing all allegiance to any foreign power, swearing to support the constitution and laws of Mexico, and presenting proof in due form of Catholic faith, means of support, and good conduct. See also the Mex. passport regulations of Oct. 12, 1830, in Arrillaga, Recop., 1830, p. 474-99.
- ↑ Pioneers of 1839; Henry J. Bee, John Burns, Kit Carson (?), James Cook, Phil. H. Devoll, Juan Domingo, *William Duckworth, John Ebbetts, James Harris, John Higgins, John C. Jones, *Geo. D. Kinlock, Laure, Allen Lewis, Gorham H. Nye, *Juan Pombert, Sam. Prentice, John Rice, John Roach, Ed Robinson (?), Jos F. Snook, Sam. Thompson, *Francis Watson, and Ewing Young. Those whose names are marked with a * were born in Cal., their fathers being foreigners.
