Thanks be to God!" On Sunday, September 25, Sugert, an Indian chief of the neighborhood, assured by the priests and soldiers that no harm should come to him or his people by the noise of exploding gunpowder, came to the formal founding.

Mass was said, a _Te Deum_ chanted, and Don Hermenegildo Sol, Commandant of San Francisco, took possession of the place, thus completing the foundation.

To-day nothing but a memory remains of the Mission of the Holy Cross, it having fallen into ruins and totally disappeared.
Lasuen's fourth Mission was founded in this same year, 1791.

He had chosen a site, called by the Indians _Chuttusgelis_, and always known to the Spaniards as Soledad, since their first occupation of the country.
Here, on October 9, Lasuen, accompanied by Padres Sitjar and Garcia, in the presence of Lieutenant Jose Argueello, the guard, and a few natives, raised the cross, blessed the site, said mass, and formally established the Mission of "Nuestra Senyora de la Soledad." One interesting entry in the Mission books is worthy of mention.

In September, 1787, two vessels belonging to the newly founded United States sailed from Boston.