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Dictation recorded by Henry Cerruti for H.H. Bancroft.
Reminiscences containing information about early California, the missions, presidios, Indians, the sack of Monterey by Hippolyte Bouchard in 1818, experiences as a member of Arguello's expedition to explore northern California in 1820, early governors, Russians at Bodega and Ross, commerce and contraband, the arrival of foreigners, M.G. Vallejo and the northern frontier, various political revolts, the Padres-Hijar Colony, the Pious Fund, American intervention and its effect on California, the Bear Flag Revolt, alcalde land grants, the building of adobe and wooden houses, his election as justice of the peace in 1847, the discovery of gold, fires in San Francisco, recent politics.
Clippings pasted in. Letter from J.B. Alvarado to M.G. Vallejo, June 5, 1839, concerning proposed establishment of a mission at Santa Rosa, bound in.

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