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063: A Franciscan in Troubled Times Part 2 · California Frontier

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  Father Real took up residence at the Mission in Santa Clara in the fall of 1844.
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  He could not have arrived at a more inauspicious time.
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  In November, Alvarado, together with his close friend Jose Castro, staged another insurrection, this time against Manuel Michel Torrena.
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  Michel Torrena had been sent to Alta California with a band of 300 ex convict soldiers.
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  Who had been conscripted against their will as part of their sentence.
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  These undisciplined and unruly troops, which the local Californios derisively called Cholos, were accused of thievery and all sorts of crimes.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In the last episode.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: On this series about father Jose Maria Suarez, Del Rio.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Who was a.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Last, uh, Franciscan missionary at mission Santa Clara and was part of a cohort.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Um, Mexican born missionaries that came to California in the 1830s.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: We talked about.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: How with.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The dismantling of the mission system.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Called secularization.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: These Franciscans who were sent to oversee the missions basically found themselves.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Without any means of support financial support.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: So they had initially turned.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: To the local native.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Borne Kelly for Neos.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Who.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: I did not really support them financially.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: It was not a custom to do so in Alta, California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And so they were basically on their own.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Um, If the local Kelly for Neos, we're not.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Financially supporting them.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Much less so, or the, uh, native Americans.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Who had no means of their own to do so.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And although in theory, secularization was meant to benefit the native people.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And transform.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Them into citizens who could support the church.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And the government.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In practice.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Um, what actually happened is that most of the Indians were left disenfranchised.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: So throughout the 1830s.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Those native lands that were held by the missions.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: We're putting hands of local administrators.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Although some small grants were made.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: To native people.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: More often than not, the larger portions were granted to, uh, local, uh, Kelly Ford and, you know, settlers.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: So.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In many places, mission Indians took jobs on nearby farms, Ranchos.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And doing so they use the skills that they had learned at the mission.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: So for example, many of them went to work as buck kiddos.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Or farm hands or domestic servants, et cetera.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Others.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Moved, uh, back to the hinterlands and took up sort of a mixture of pre-contact and post-contact lifestyles.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Right.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Um, mixing those two ways of life together.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Now fryers, like father Rielle.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Who had been trained as missionaries.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Found themselves in an unexpected position.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And being wound up being little more than caretakers for ruined buildings.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Now, of course they did not like this.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And Antonio RAL father, Jose Raul's brother.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Express those feelings.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And the feelings of his fellow priests in a letter to father Lorenzo key, hus, who was.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Device commentary, the Franciscans, a commissary, the Franciscans and upper California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He said, Quote.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: If there are no Indians, there's no need for a priest either.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: For, I am commissioned to be a missionary, not a curate.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In other words, not a parish priest.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He went on to say that the conditions of their assignment were such that if their superiors in Mexico were aware, Of what they were dealing with, they would tell them to come back to Mexico right away.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And he's like how.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Without any resources.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Without any encouragement.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: We sacrifice ourselves and give ourselves up to manual labor.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In order to procure food.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Lest we die of hunger.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: How are we supposed to.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Keep that up.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Now.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Father Rael.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Nevertheless did what he could on behalf of the X mission Indians in disputes that arose when mission lands weren't returned to them.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Such disputes at times involve members of the local elites.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: On the Eve.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And this is an example on the Eve of governor Figaro, his secularization degree, this decree in 1834.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: A rancher and future governor, Juan Bautista, Alvarado.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: applied for a grant to receive land around.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: What is today?
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Big Sur south of Monterey.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Alvarado had in fact been grazing his cattle there since the 1820s.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And he wanted to have the situation.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Officialized.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The local indigenous people, however, Who's ancestral territories made up those lands.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Had actually made, laid up a public claim to the property.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In June of 1834, father WRAL wrote to governor Figaro on behalf of the Indians.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He said, I pray.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Your honor in the name of all the neophytes, that is the Christian Indians, the mission.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: That the property, which they are claiming and to which they are entitled.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Should not be taken from them.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Unquote.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Rao's plea though was not successful.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Governor Figaroa decided in favor of Alvarado and in October of 1834.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The grant was made official.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: For approximately 9,000 acres.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Now governor Figaro would not remain in office long.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In September of 1835.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Creole was called to administer the last rites to him.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Over the next year.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: I'll to California would in fact have four interim governors all appointed by the Mexican government.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: This chain of administrators chosen in Mexico helped actually fuel resentment among the locally born elite, California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: They were fed up with.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Heavy handed intervention from distant Mexico city.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And as such one Bought auto whose lands rail whose land grant rail had a post.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Joined together with a group of like minded.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: California's.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Um, And they took on.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The most recent Mexican appointee Nicola school.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Tiaras who had been sent to fill a figure all has place.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: With the help of a faction of well-armed and hard drinking Americans who were living in the area.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Alvarado, along with his ally.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Jose Castro.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Forced Gutierrez to surrender and returned to Mexico.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: They also paved the way for the first native born constitutional Mexican governor and Alta California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Alverado himself.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Alvarado is reliance though on American rifles.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: To bring himself to power.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Involved him and father Rachel, in a matter that actually would foreshadow the way.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The eventual future of the territory would play out.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Right.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Well, Left Carmel.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And actually took residents in a private home in Monterrey.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And there, he got to know the population of.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The territory's Capitol, right?
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Monterey was the Capitol at the time.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And late March of 1840.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He was called to the house of a Mexican, California and woman.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Named Maria, the hyssop spur.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Brunel.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Her American husband.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: A trapper named Tomlinson.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Was on his death bed.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And he wanted to see a priest.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Rail performed the last rights for the dying man.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And during his confession, the trapper spoke of a plot.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: By fellow American Isaac Graham to throw off Mexican rule.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Rail was shocked by what he heard.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Graham at participated in Alvarado's revolt against governor Gutierrez.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And he was living south of Monterey where it's set up a whiskey distillery.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Thanks to the drunkenness and the disturbances associated with the distillery.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The American and actually become a nuisance for Alverado.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: According to Tomlinson.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And this is what rail.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Sent in a letter to his superiors.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Graham and his other Americans who were helping him were conspiring to get California into their procession.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Along the lines of what happened in Texas.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And according to rail.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Um, This caused him to spend several anxious days before penning, a letter to governor Alvarado on April 3rd.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Retail was in fact convinced.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: That the America is planned to murder him and the two other missionaries in the area.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: So when Alvarado learned the news, he called a meeting of his junta.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And the order general Castro, the military commander of California to round up Graham and his conspirators, as well as any foreigners that according to Alverado.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: I did not have a good reason for being in the territory.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: This meant that 45.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Non Mexicans, some California, some Americans and others English.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: We're arrested and transported by ship Tucson.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Bluss.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And then Overland to, to peak, to be put on trial.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The result.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Of that was that Alvarado.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Soon had American and British warships anchored Monterey bay, seeking news about the wellbeing of their countrymen.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Thanks to British console used as barren.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Who used the situation?
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: To pressure.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The Mexican government, most of the prisoners were found not guilty.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And Graham.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And his fellow detainees were issued passports and released with monetary compensation for what they had gone through.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: When Graham and his men returned to Monterey in 1841.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Local observers, remarked that he and the others.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Arrived dressed neatly armed with rifles and swords and looked infinitely in better condition than when they departed.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The local native born Californians learned an important lesson from the series of events.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: That the Mexican central government.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Was less interested in protecting its Northern provinces.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Then it maintaining good international relations with its neighbors and creditors.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Alvarado as a result.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Offered his his resignation as governor.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In favor of a man named Manuel micelle.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Terena.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: An army general sent by the Mexican government to guard against any further foreign uprising.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In 1842, Michelle Turino took up residence in Monterrey.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: As a native born Mexican.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Father Rael felt loyalty to the new governor.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And Sue established a cordial relationship with him.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Monterrey.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Was rail's home for the next two years.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: But in 1844.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He learned that his superiors were transferring him north to mission Santa Clara at the Southern tip of the San Francisco bay.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He wrote to governor Michelle Terena and he referred to his transfer as a quote, forced departure.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: I would not leave if obedience to my superiors did not call me to this new assignment.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The governor was disturbed by the news.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And he wrote to the Bishop Garcia, Diego.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Uh, hoping to persuade him to keep father Alan Monterey.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Michelle Terena praise the friars.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Zeal.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And detailed how REL had served with quote affability promptness and careful attention in this city, in his jurisdiction.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Without a fixed income.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And that he depended on the piety of the faithful unquote.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The Bishop's reply, however was not very comforting.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Garcia explained.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: That he had reassigned real.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Who he considered a charitable and hardworking priest to minister to the Pueblo of San Jose.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And the missions of Santa Clara.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: San Francisco.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Mission San Jose.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And at times even to visit San Francisco Solano 90 miles to the north in Sonoma.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Garcia.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Candidly and sadly acknowledged that the distances were huge.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And that, and in the past four missionaries had that charge.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And even they could hardly perform the duty, which now is given to just one man.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Fr Real took up residence at the mission in Santa Clara in the fall of 1844.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He could not have arrived at a more, inauspicious time.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In November.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Alvarado together with his close friend, José Castro staged another insurrection.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: This time against Manuel Micheltorena Now Micheltorena had been sent to Alta California with a band of 300 ex-convict soldiers.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Who had been conscripted against their will as part of their sentence.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: These undisciplined and unruly troops.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Which the local Californios Derisively called cholos.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: were accused of thievery and all sorts of crimes.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: There are disruptive conduct combined with the fact that micelle Terena was considered to just to be another.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Mexican interloper by the native born Kelly.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Fornino's.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Did a great deal to erode his support.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In November of 1844, the two armies.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Alvarado and Castro's troops against me.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Shelter readiness eventually squared off 12 miles south of the Pueblo San Jose.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Neither groups seem particularly ready to shed blood over their disagreements though.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: After several rainy days, waiting it out.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The two parties met and reached an agreement.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Micelle Torino.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Would sin his unruly troops back to Mexico.
• 15:30
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: While the rebel California militiamen would be integrated into the army.
• 15:36
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In the meantime Alvarado's and Castro's men were allowed to stay in the area as a Goodwill gesture.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And they were Garrison at the Santa Clara mission.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Now this part of the agreement.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Was the one that would cause father Ray out the most trouble.
• 15:54
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: When the troops settled in to the mission, the Padre found himself in the uncomfortable position of playing host.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Albarado likely knew that realz loyalties lay with the Mexican governor.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And the priest.
• 16:09
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Due to flee, put rooms and beds at the service of the militia members.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Who showed their gratitude by stealing anything they could.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Writing some months later.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: To father Antonio on.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: So our, the president is Aquatech and fryers in Alta, California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Father Rael was despondent.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He said.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Did it on the very next day that they settled in quote.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: They carried away the sheets, blankets, bedspreads, and left only the mattresses.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: According to Rachel.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: From the 25th to the 28th of November.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And they consumed 11 head of cattle and skin 25 team cows in the corral.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Leaving those unfortunate Indians without even the aid of the milk, which they were used to having.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: On December 2nd, the soldiers consumed three head of cattle and on January 3rd of the year or two head of cattle of the new year.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: On December 12th, they took three horses on the 13th, six on the 24th for.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: On January 3rd, 40 horses in three mayors.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And on the same day they robbed the Buckero.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Hairdo's.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: On the same day they robbed the vicarious of the horses.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: They also carried away the saddles, bridal spurs, shoes, blankets, and hats of the Cato's themselves.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: On the same day.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: They stole 22 suits of fine red cloth worn by the music band of the mission.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In January, they also took away the keys from the foreman, opened the store room and ransacked it at their pleasure.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Oh, this is all according to father rails letter.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And not only did the militia lay waste to the mission supplies, but in may.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: According to real Antonio Medea, Pico, who was the I'll call, the, the magistrate in charge of the Pueblo.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: San Jose took away 25 head of cattle from the, from the enclosure.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Of all this, nothing has been returned.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: I believe that it is the news of this transaction.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: On the fact that he took these things.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Which they have twisted out of all truth and report it to the governor and from which he inferred that I gave or sold these things though, I did not.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: They took it all by force and committed a thousand wrongs.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And accusations of selling property.
• 18:37
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The mission would actually later come back to haunt father rail.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In the years following us annexation.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Forced to suffer through the indignity of the occupation by the militia troops.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Real exasperated road to his superiors.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Asking to give up his responsibility for the mission, which he called.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: An odious burden.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Staying in Santa Clara meant quote.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Not only having to wear myself out, but also making the Indians who still worked at the mission labor for interests, which though their own, they cannot enjoy.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Quote for the Padre.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In fact, native Americans.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Working at the exhibitions only serve to assist factions against legitimate authority.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Unquote.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The legitimate authority ref rail was referring to.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Was his fellow Mexican.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The governor, Michelle Terena who.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In an effort to outflank, Alvarado and Castro.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Enlisted the aid of the Swiss adventure.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: John Augusta Sutter.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And another number of foreigners, including Alvarado's old ally and later nemesis, Isaac gram.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Micelle Touraine his efforts were unsuccessful.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And by March of 1845.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He had to leave and go back to Mexico.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He was all to California's last.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Imported governor.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: At this time.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Another native sun.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: PIO Pico of Los Angeles.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Assume the governorship.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And he would be California's last Mexican governor.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Or better yet?
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The last.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Governor of Mexican, California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The upheaval, the mid 1840s was certainly not helpful for the Catholic church and out to California in general, buildings were in disrepair.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And the clergy situation was dire.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In 1845.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Bishop Garcia.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Diego wrote a letter to the Mexican minister of external relations explaining the situation.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: According to him.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Garcia Diego quote.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The entire clergy of my diocese.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Which is all of California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Is today reduced to some disconcerted men who long to leave discontented men who long to leave.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Others who are too old and weak for the ministry.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And the remaining few who for all their struggles.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Cannot carry out their ministry in such a vast territory as they should be able to.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In November that year.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Three of these discontented men, including Antonio SWAT is Del Rio.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Father Jose, the rails brother.
• 21:32
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Departed Alta, California, and returned to Mexico.
• 21:37
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: By 1846.
• 21:39
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The number of Franciscans in the territory had declined from 36.
• 21:44
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In 1820.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: To just 11.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Without the support.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Of even his own brother.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Jose began to have doubts about his own role as a priest.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: In February.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Bishop Garcia Diego in a letter to Jose Castro.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Noted that father rail.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Quote has made repeated petitions for his removal from the ministry.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Castro who had caused realz so much trauma by stationing his troops at the Santa Clara mission was now asking for the fryer to return to Monterrey.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Which had been without a priest for some months.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The Bishop's reply was unequivocal.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Because of his wish to leave.
• 22:29
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Rachel could not be sent back to Monterrey.
• 22:32
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And he was only waiting for passage on board, a ship to return to Mexico.
• 22:39
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Circumstances, however, present prevented reality from returning to Mexico as he had planned.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Uh, young priest.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Had been chosen to succeed him at Santa Clara, part of the Bishop's plan to establish a non Franciscan non missionary clergy in Alta, California.
• 22:57
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: But the new cleric Jose Villa a California native from Monterrey.
• 23:04
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Died at the mission on March 24th, 1846.
• 23:10
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: He was to celebrate his first mass there the next day.
• 23:14
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Father Rael performed the funeral service for him and had the young priest buried in the mission church.
• 23:19
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Obviously it had been ordained just two months earlier on January 1st.
• 23:23
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: And he seems to have passed away suddenly in his sleep.
• 23:26
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: According to realz annotation from the mission's book of burials.
• 23:31
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Without a replacement.
• 23:33
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Ryall remained at Santa Clara for another five years.
• 23:37
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Soon.
• 23:38
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: A wave of immigrants from the U S began to arrive at the mission.
• 23:43
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: These immigrants, most likely new.
• 23:46
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: For certain what reality could only guess at.
• 23:49
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: At the entire Mexican regime in California was on the verge of collapse.
• 23:55
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: When a group of American adventures.
• 23:57
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Hoisted a flag with the image of a grizzly bear on it in the main square of the Pueblo of Sonoma in 1846.
• 24:05
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The fears.
• 24:06
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: The reality had expressed.
• 24:08
  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Cam Link 4K-3: Just six years earlier, we're confirmed.
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