Bustamente needs supplies to repair presidio. He suggests two of his nephews for newly vacated positions under his command. Bustamente is in ill health, requests retirement at earliest possible convenience; Fayni submits letter assuring virrey that Bustamente is ill and should be retired. Six months later, January 1773, Bustamente Dies. (D. Marksz, March 1987)

Munoz fills position at Julimes vacated by promotion of Gil to captain of Buenaventura. Munoz request his back salary so he can payoff his debt and maintain his soldiers. Presidios of Julimes, Cerrogordo, San Saba, and Santa Rosa are combined into presidio de la junta de los Rios del Norte y Conchos. Gil is unable to inform virrey about establishment of missions due to his distance from them, and short time he has been there. Munoz requests retirement to Reynosa due to illness with grade of Coronel, and salary of teniente Coronel. (D. Marksz, March 1987).

Concerns failing health of Fayni; his taking of Mineral baths at Estamuela; his promotion to full Coronel. (J. Williams, March 1987)

Concerns governor Fayni's request to return to Mexico City due T an illness; he notes no haviendo en esta Ciudad medicos de suficiente inteligencia con quienes prometerme alivio; he is granted permission and funds. (J. Williams, March 1987)

Reports to virrey by comandante de las Armas Munoz of events on the frontier; primarily about continuous problems with Indians robbing and stealing--usually Apaches, but also other groups. Munoz promoted to teniente Coronel de Cavalleria. Review of Munoz' service by O'Conor including extensive list of numbers of Indians killed and where. Arze y Amaya sent on expedition to frontier was promoted to Ayudante mayor, but complained he was document relates illness of unnamed party and how his health suffered in service to king. Suggests that he be sent to a more favorable climate, perhaps the Plaza del teniente rey in Campeche. (D. Marksz, February 1987)

Describes geographical range Pimeria Alta missions. Speaks of continuing Apache menace. Notes depopulation of area due to diseases, Apache attacks. Discusses temporal affairs of missions, including livestock raising, planting communal fields maize, wheat, and vegetables, which feeds widows, sick, military escorts, mission Indians during lean months of April, May, and June, thereby inducing Indians to remain in pueblos instead of wild-food gathering. Notes sale of surplus to mines/presidios to purchase church supplies, barter goods. Notes decline of mission agriculture last 8 years due to lack of seeds, decline of Cieneguilla mines, and increased number of farmers. States mission business is conducted by Indian governors under missionaries' guidance. Describes architecture of Indian houses; agriculture, including cultivation of pomegranates, quinces, cotton, and sugar cane as well as shrubs of gomilla, jojoba, both of which used medicinally. Describes herbs used, including indigo (anil), gediondilla, zimarron, contra yerba. Claims 2 harvests pithaya per year in west. Notes presence gypsum, lime, piedra bezal found in deer, especially those killed near coast. Says province is covered with grama grass, thereby providing forage for much livestock. Describes climate, mineral wealth, including real of Cieneguilla, only settlement of Spaniards in Pimeria Alta. Describes settlements. Tiburones described as Seri groups. Describes excellent salt fields along coast. Describes port of Tepoca/pearl beds nearby. Notes presence of subterranean water. Says Papagos come to missions to sell young boys captured in slave raids carried out by interior nations; these slaves called Vijoras (Nixoras). No active commerce carried on by Indians. Describes uses of cotton. Says Pimas are good farmers, growing wheat, maize, squash, cotton. During harvests, many traders arrive to barter cloth, etc. for produce. Says Pimas stay in pueblos, not like Yaquis and many Opatas who wander (probably to work in mines). Discusses reasons why missions should not be secularized. Estimates Gila Pima population at 2,000. Compares Pimas favorably to Opatas, who no longer respect missionaries. Describes temporary nature of Spanish settlement of Sonora, Pimeria Alta. Says 8 leagues from Aconchi, the San Juan mine, full of water, is abandoned now. Discusses precautions necessary for populating Sonora. Encourages development of Tepoca, Guaymas to give Sonora easy access to sea, Tiburon Island as way station for transportation of livestock. Discusses need to develop educational facilities, including primary schools at Indian settlements. Notes belief among Opatas at Aconchi in Montezuma, who they claimed was their king and had risen and appeared in mountains. Describes his school, which taught girls as well as boys to read, write. (T. Sheridan) (1976)

List of names entitled Sonora. At bottom of page is alcalde mayor de Tepic. (L. Deatherage, July 1987) payments to troops, sales taxes and fines for commerce and building construction, conflicts with Indians; prisoners taken, military strategies used, Indian attack on Padilla, education of captive Indian children. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Concerns delivery of salaries, supplies to squadrons in Nuevo Santander. Series of documents describing the transporting and care of 22 Indian prisoners from Santander to Mexico. Military orders given for soldiers to assist in transportation of prisoners. Clergy in Mexico petition for education of several prisoners. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Attempts made to control Indians via mission establishment at Cruillas. Military strength increased, guns purchased and distributed, weapons replaced at Padilla, Santillana and Marina. Iron and wax sold for financing of poor missions. Indian prisoners to be transported by de la Garza to Mexico. Land allotments described along with profits, expenditures of mission production. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Notes depopulation area, illness among remaining inhabitants. says mines being abandoned because of Indian ambushes. Notes presence 14 soldiers Sinaloa presidio Pueblo Santa Rosa. (T. Sheridan, berkeley, 1976)