erations amount to nothing; but in live-stock there seems to have been a large gain down to the secularization in 1834-5. Joaquin Estudillo was the comisionado, aided by Ignacio del Valle; and the successive administrators were Gumesindo Flores in 1835-6, José de la Cruz Sanchez in 1836-40, and Tiburcio Vasquez from 1840. The inventory of the transfer in 1835 showed a total valuation of $60,000, or, for real estate and fixtures, land not being valued, $25,800; church property $17,800; and available assets, chiefly live-stock, in excess of debts, $16,400. In 1840 the debt amounted to only $2,600, but the little remnant of cattle and sheep could not have been worth much more. If any property was ever divided among the Indians, there are no records to show it.
Padre Amorós died at San Rafael in 1832,[1] and
- ↑ Juan Amorós was a Catalan, born at Porrera Oct. 10, 1773. He became a Franciscan at Gerona in 1791 and was ordained in 1797. He came to Mexico in 1803, and to California in 1804, serving as a missionary at S. Carlos in 1804-19, and S. Rafael in 1919-32. His superiors rated him as possessed of more than common ability, and well fitted for office or a professorship. Autobiog. Autog. de los Padres, MS.; Sarría, Inf. de 1817, MS., p. 32-3; Payeras, Inf., 1820, MS., 140. Padre Amorós was noted for the zeal with which he undertook every task whether temporal or spiritual. He was a successful business manager, a mechanic of more than ordinary skill, and a kind missionary well liked by his neophytes. He was always in good health, and never could find too much work to do. He strove to please all classes and engaged in no controversies. In 1817 he wrote a letter urging the extension of trade and especially the fair treatment of foreigners. He promised fidelity to the
trouble between Estudillo and P. Gutierrez arose from a charge of the former that latter had neglected his duties in administering the sacraments to the dying Indians. E. complained to the gov., at which Prefect García Diego was angry, deeming it an interference of secular officials in matters of ecclesiastical prerogative; but in Aug. he acknowledged Gutierrez' 'criminal negligence,' and promised to chide him. Id., ix. 62-5; Arch. Arzob., MS., v. pt. ii. 8, 11. 1836. José de la Cruz Sanchez in Dec. succeeded Flores, who resigned. Vallejo, Doc., MS., iv. 47, 36. 1837. March 19th, Sanchez asks Vallejo to compel the padre to give up one of his 9 rooms. Id., i. 27. July 1st, Vallejo sends 19 Ind. from Sonoma to aid in mission work; will probably send more. Id., iv. 262. 1838. See a view of the mission in Forbes' Cal., reproduced in Annals of S. F. 1839. Sanchez still in charge. Hartnell in Sept. found the accounts in such a condition as might be expected, the admin. not being able to read or write(?). The Ind. were discontented with hard work and no ropa; wanted to live in liberty under the care of Vicente Miramonte; feared that S. Mateo would be taken from them; desired also to keep the coast lands from Pilarcitos to Purísima; and some of them to have the Cañada de Guadalupe. Hartnell, Diario, MS., 7-8. This year, as we have seen, Dolores was made cabecera of the partido, and three lots were granted to citizens of S. F. pueblo.. 1840. Sanchez was succeeded in May by Tiburcio Vasquez. St. Pap., Miss., MS., vii. 36.
