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October 30, 1770 map of California Coast including San Francisco Bay Area

Found a map of the coast of California dating back to October 30, 1770:

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Gives a lot of description on the map and year.

Found Map with City of Cibola (Is it the legendary city?)

I was looking at a map of the Peninsula of California where I found it here:

http://oi60.tinypic.com/zwhrvq.jpg

I marked it in green:

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Another Site for searching Colonial Mexico

Found this new website that is different from PARS.

Description of Monterrey, San Francisco described by Capitan of Navio San Carlos year 1775

Looking at archives of PARS on California and see many where ships, expeditions traveled from Port San Blas of Nayarit, Mexico up north to San Diego, Monterrey and San Francisco, California, Mexico i

1603 Map of Los Pinos, Zacatecas (Nuestra Senora De La Concepcion Sierra Pinos)

Found a map of Los Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico under the name "Nuestra Senora De La Concepcion Sierra De Los Pinos) year 1603:

http://oi62.tinypic.com/otdati.jpg

FTDNA PROMO CODE

Dear members interested in DNA

Port of Lisboa 7/20/1596 painting from view of flota de indias

I was browsing the archives and did a search, "flota de indias" to see the list and the description on the side:

http://oi58.tinypic.com/20r07l0.jpg

1763 plano of Veracruz, Castillo Ulua, Navios (ships) with names

Found this plano on page 48 of sevilla archives of the layout of Veracruz, Castillo Ulua and several ships with their names such as:

Concepcion
Soledad
Paquebot
Castilla
Arrogante
Flora

Fabricas de Cigaros and Tabaco Mexico Colonial

I have been going through the mapas/planos of Mexico in the Sevilla, Spain archives and have found so many interesting things.

Miguel del Berrio Y Zaldivar Segundo Conde Hacienda San Mateo

Found an 848 pg document of Miguel Del Berrio Y Zaldivar: