This distance from the Mission of San José del Cabo about eighteen leagues, withdrawn from the coast of the gulf about five.
It is at the north elevation of 23 degrees. It was endowed by the Marquis of Villapuente in the year 1719 at 10,000 pesos, as the antecedent; with the same it was run by the parents of the Society of Jesus from its foundation until the expulsion, which was at the same time as the previous one, and by April 1768 he entered the charge of this apostolic college, whose first missionary was the preacher father Fr. José Murguía.
During the visit of the Visitor, finding that said mission had few Indians and almost all of them with gallic disease, he ordered all the families that made up the Todos Santos family, injured and contaminated by the same accident, to move there. clever surgeon to cure them. The mutation was carried out for the month of October of said year, to whom the said missionary father administered until April 1769, which by order of the visitator became a curate, as I said. The said bachelor Baeza was his first priest and a few months later the illness mentioned in the antecedent entered, which wiped out all those who had gone from Todos Santos; and as a large part of the natives of Santiago also died, for whose cause today only sixty souls are made up of young and old.
This town was administered by the priest until the beginning of November 1770, who went to Guadalajara, and from his departure until April the priest from Real de Minas Santa Ana; and since then, at the special request of His Excellency, I had to put religious, and the spiritual administration runs to the present by Father Fr. Francisco Villuendas, running the temporal in the care of a steward appointed by the government of the Peninsula, by whose cause I don't know about his state; although said father writes to me, and the same from San José, that these towns are very backward, lacking corn, supporting themselves with only meat from the raised cattle that they kill.
