Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Caja del Rio Grant Testimony
Collection
Identifier: MSS-51-BC
Abstract
This collection contains testimony from the U.S. Court of Private Land Claims regarding the legitimacy of the Caja del Rio grant involving a legal dispute between the descendants of Nicolas Ortiz, Ni?o Ladr?n de Guebara (the original grantee) and Willi Spiegelberg. It also includes legal documents confirming genealogy of the Ortiz family and records of sales of this land in 1860 from the Ortiz family through various owners, to Thomas B. Catron in 1909.
Dates:
1887-1914 (bulk 1904-1914)
Mariano Chavez Family Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-010
Scope and Content
Collection consists of photocopies of documents involving members of the Mariano Chavez family and others. Most of the materials concern land grants, wills and estates, land conveyances, and litigation over land and water disputes in New Mexico during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Other materials include inventories of personal property, a license to build a chapel at San Jose de Chama (1844), a geneaology of the Chavez family, a collection of alabados (religious verses), and...
Dates:
1763-1967 (bulk 1763-1873)