This was founded on August 27, 1762. In the endowment papers there is no memory of it, although by news of some individuals of the Peninsula I have come to understand it was endowed by Don Antonio de Lanzagorta, a neighbor of the town of San Miguel the Great, although others are to feel if it would be endowed with the inheritance of the Duchess of Gandía.
It was run by the Jesuit fathers until January 1768, and in May came in charge of this college, which was received by Father Fr. Fermín Francisco Lasuén. And from then until August 1771 four hundred and one have been baptized; Of these, about twenty-six have been adults, and other toddlers, and four hundred and ninety-nine have died among children and adults, and two hundred and seventy-three have been married, according to the said father. There is no longer any known Gentile in the mission district. At the head of the mission, forty-four married families and three widowers, who make up one hundred and eighty-four souls. And beyond the head there are five rancherías, one named San Juan, with forty-six families, three widowers, seven widows, with one hundred sixty-five souls; another San Francisco Regis, with twenty-three families, five widowers and nine widows, with ninety-two souls; another called Los Angeles, with thirty-seven families, five widowers, fourteen widows, with one hundred and fifty-five souls; another Our Lady of Guadalupe, with seventy-four families, eighteen widows and fourteen widows, with two hundred and fifty-six souls; another San Ignacio, with seventy-eight families, twenty-three widowers and twenty widows, with three hundred and fifty-seven souls, who all make up with those of the head one thousand four hundred and seventy-nine people.
These ranches do not have any chapel or house, moving and I saw where they find their wild foods, and it is not possible to gather more in the head, both because of the shortness of the land and because of the scarcity of water, that even to maintain the few Said families, it is necessary to go sowing in two places well separated from the mission named San Regis and El Paraíso. At the beginning of September immediately, my father wrote to me that he had taken about three hundred bushels of espinguín wheat, eighteen of barley, which they had been spending on it since July; and that of corn, although they had a cornfield, they did not expect to catch, because the lobster finished it.
He has his large cattle ranch, and between the meek and the rodeo there were about five hundred heads between the small and the large; of raised cattle none has; of smaller wool cattle it has one thousand seven hundred heads, and of hair nine hundred and thirty; he has twenty tame mules and four half broken; year and two year mules ten; pups of the immediate year nine; meek horses thirty and colts nine; of the ironworks of the immediate year thirty; cent belly mares; fillies forty-six; a donkey and two herding donkeys. It has some new vineyards that the father has planted, and some fruit trees of fig trees and pomegranates, and a lot of cotton, from which they make blankets to help the wardrobe, and from wool they make their mills.
It is at an altitude of 30º degrees, twelve leagues distant from the Great Sea and ten leagues from the Gulf, where it has a bay called Los Angeles, where the mission's own boat stops. It is distant from that of Santa Gertrudis more than thirty-five leagues, and from that of Santa María about forty. It has its church and house clad in adobes, with a new tule roof that Father Lasuén has just built.
