of owners, we have no details of what the occupants were doing. It noticeable that none of the titles were rejected in the litigation of later times. Sir James Douglas in 1840 wrote of Santa Bárbara as a larger town than Monterey, estimating the annual exports of hides and tallow at $25,000.
Santa Bárbara mission remained in charge of Padre Antonio Jimeno until late in 1840, with Padre Narciso Duran as associate from the end of 1833. Antonio Menendez, the Dominican chaplain of the presidio, was buried at the mission in April 1832. The neophyte population, 711 in 1830, decreased to 556 in 1834, the year of secularization. In 1836 it was 480; and in 1840 not more than 250.[1] In
- ↑ Sta Bárbara statistics of 1831-4. Decrease in pop. 711 to 556. 'Baptisms 80 children; largest no. 29 in 1831; smallest 16 in 1834. Deaths 200. Increase in large stock 3,259 to 3,819; decrease in horses and mules 759 to 419; sheep 3,480 to 2,700. Largest crop 3,700 bush. in 1834; smallest 2,700 in 1832; average 2,400, of which 1,476 wheat, yield 7 fold, 435 barley 12 fold, 405 maize 47 fold, 57 beans 12 fold.
Statistics of 1834-40. Inventory of March 1834, credits $14,953, buildings $22,936, furniture, tools, goods in storehouse, vineyards, orchards, corrals, and animals $19,590, church $16,000, sacristy $1,500, church ornaments, etc., $4,576, library $152, ranchos $30,961 (S. Antonio $9,421, Dos Pueblos $12,055, S. Márcos $6,111, Sta Cruz $1,650, S. José $1,050, Guyzapa $674), total $113,960, or less debt of $1,000, $112,960. St. Pap., Miss., MS, vi. 49-50. Monthly wages to mission employés, priest $125, teacher $83, 1st majordomo $40, 2d id. $17, expense of worship $41, 10 servants at $6, $60, total $367. 1835-6. Pop. 506, 451, baptisms 9, 13, marriages 5, 3, deaths 50, 25. March 1835. Inventory of church, etc., agreeing with that cited above, except that 8 bells are valued at $3,290. Id., v. 46-7. Of the effects of 1834 $2,484 had been distrib. among the Ind. Id. 1838. Live-stock of all kinds 1,212 animals. Detailed inventory of property as turned over by Carrillo to Cota. Receipts Jan.-March $569, expend. $324. Salaries, padres $1,500, surgeon Nicolás $100, admin. Cota $480, majordomo Valenzuela $240, clerk Ponce de Leon $120, corporal Vicente $144, sacristan Lino $72, blacksmith $120, total per year $3,276. Id., viii. 6-8. 1839. Pop. 246 according to Hartnell's report. Diario, MS. 555 by a report in St. Pap., Miss., viii. 1, which
'dummy' for Capt. Guerra y Noriega, who was cl. San Pedro, 1 l., 1838, Joseph Chapman, whose heirs were cl. Santa Ana, 1837, Crisogono Ayala, et al., who were cl. Santa Clara, or El Norte, 1837, Juan Sanchez, who was cl. Santa Cruz Isl., 1839, Andrés Castillero, who was cl. Santa Rosa, 3½ l., 1839, Francisco Cota; M. J. Olivera de Cota cl. Sespe, or San Cayetano, 6 l., Cárlos Ant. Carrillo, who was cl. The original grant was for 2 l., which was fraudulently changed to 6 l.; but the courts finally cut it down. See S. F. Bulletin, Oct. 10, 1878. Simí, formerly occupied by the Picos. In 1831, Romualdo Pacheco was granted the use of a portion. Guerra, Doc., MS., vi. 29-30. Sisquoc, 1833, María Ant. Caballero; James B. Huie cl. Tepusquet, 2 l., 1837. Tomás Olivera; A. M. Cota et al. cl. Tinaguaic, 2 l., 1837, Victor Linares; Wm D. Foxen cl.
