CARLON, Hilario

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HILARIO CARLON'S DEATH BY INDIAN ATTACK
24 Aug 1790: Comandante Goyochea dispatched Sgt. Jose Ignacio Olivera w/8 soldiers to search for a Msn. San Buenaventura runaway neophyte named Domingo and search for mineral deposits. The soldiers camped in the vicinity of San Emigdio Canyon, Santa Ynes Mountains, and prospected for ore.

29 Aug 1790: 5 men left camp to continue to search for ore. Olivera and 3 soldiers stayed behind, but he and 1 soldier left an hour later to explore the vicinity. Hilario Carlon and Gabriel Espinosa stayed behind as camp guards. A 60+ Indian war party on their way to a retaliatory attack on a rancheria came across Olivera's party's tracks and followed them to the camp. They killed Hilario Carlon, who was sleeping, and Espinosa who was occupied in sewing his shoe.

The Indians moved on and attacked Olivera from the rear. After fierce fighting, he escaped and returned to the camp at sunset. He found Espinosa armed, in leather, in the shelter of an oak, pierced like a sieve with arrows all over his body, and Carlon as if sleeping, his leather jacked folded. The two dead soldiers were buried, and Olivera's party regrouped and rode back to Santa Barbara arriving on 1 Sep 1790.

In response, Santa Barbara presidio dispatched 28 soldiers, who returned with 3 Indian prisoners, a war party member, a local rancheria chief, and the fugitive, Domingo. Comandante Goyochea interviewed all three Indians and reported his findings.
REFERENCES
1) North American Indigenous Warefare and Ritual Violence pgs. 91-92, 94; THE INVESTIGATION OF AN ATTACK IN 1790, Richard J. Chacon, Ruben G. Mendoza; http://books.google.com/books?id=LANhCIxlKM8C&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=RANCHERIA+OF+tINOQUI&source=bl&ots=5Ptb_3Dp7y&sig=aVXqrfToLWvn0Mq7zo3vnLFDUr4&hl=en#v=onepage&q=RANCHERIA%20OF%20tINOQUI&f=false
2) 2.1 Introduction and 2.2 Hispanic Period, pgs. 7,8; Los Padres Forestwatch; http://www.lpfw.org/archive/docs/HistoricalOverview/Chapter2A.pdf

Hilario married LARA, Maria Juana de Jesus 19 Apr 1790, Mission La Purisima Concepcion, Alta California. Maria (daughter of LARA, Jose Fernando de Velasco y and CAMPOS, Maria Antonia) was born Abt. 1775, Villa de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Mexico; was christened Abt. 1775, Villa de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Mexico. [Group Sheet]

Jacinto — CRUZ, Maria Augustina de la. [Group Sheet]