Santa Barbara and Montecito, past and present . cU ao inIt) AND M O N T E C I T O ials. There is also a case containing severalvolumes of ancient music sung by the Indians,the notes being in different colors, an idea orig-inating with one of the Padres, after he had triedmany other ways of teaching the Indians to sing. The Mission continued to prosper, and growin wealth and influence, and in 1821 the recordsshow that 4288 Indians had been baptized, andthere were 947 settled families of Indians and483 families of whites. Of stock there were27,432 head of different kinds, and 14,000 treeshad bee
Santa Barbara and Montecito, past and present . cU ao inIt) AND M O N T E C I T O ials. There is also a case containing severalvolumes of ancient music sung by the Indians,the notes being in different colors, an idea orig-inating with one of the Padres, after he had triedmany other ways of teaching the Indians to sing. The Mission continued to prosper, and growin wealth and influence, and in 1821 the recordsshow that 4288 Indians had been baptized, andthere were 947 settled families of Indians and483 families of whites. Of stock there were27,432 head of different kinds, and 14,000 treeshad been planted. In 1821 Mexico became independent, andCalifornia was proclaimed a Mexican depend-ency. It -at once became involved in the manypronunciamentos and rebellions that character-ized Mexican history dow^n to the time of the oc-cupation of Califorflia by the Americans in 1846. Hardly had the Mission been completed thanthe work of persecution began. In 1822 theMexican Government, jealous of the power heldby the Franciscans, passed their fir
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