Spanish Archives of New Mexico I,
Collection
Identifier: 1972-002
Scope and Content
Collection consists of civil land records of the Spanish and Mexican period governments of New Mexico, and materials created by the Surveyor General and Court of Private Land Claims during the process of adjudication. Includes petitions for land grants, land conveyances, wills, mine registers, records books, journals, dockets, reports, minutes, letters, and a variety of legal documents. Also within the collection is the Vigil Index, an inventory of the documents in the custody of Donaciano Vigil, Secretary of the Territory of New Mexico.
Most materials are in Spanish.
Note: Documents are described in: Twitchell, Ralph Emerson. The Spanish Archives of New Mexico Volume I. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1914.
Most materials are in Spanish.
Note: Documents are described in: Twitchell, Ralph Emerson. The Spanish Archives of New Mexico Volume I. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1914.
Dates
- 1685-1912
Language of Materials
English,
Access Restrictions
Access to original materials restricted; Use microfilm only.
Copy Restrictions
Limited duplication allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Biographical or Historical Note
The Spanish Archives of New Mexico was assembled by the Surveyor General of New Mexico (1854-1891) and the Court of Private Land Claims (1891-1904). These offices were charged with the investigating of claims of property ownership in New Mexico and reporting to the U.S. Congress in order to adjudicate land titles pursuant to the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Extent
65 Linear Feet (63 microfilm reels)
Organization
Collection is organized in five series:
- I. Spanish Archives of New Mexico (arranged by Twitchell number)
- II. Grants to Pueblo Indians
- III. Bound documents
- IV. Vigil index
- V. Surveyor General and Court of Private Land Claims records.
Alternate Format
Available on microfilm.
General
Contact Information
- New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
- Archives and Historical Services Division
- 1205 Camino Carlos Rey
- Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
- Phone: 505-476-7908
- Fax: 505-476-7909
- Email: archives@rain.state.nm.us
- URL: http://www.state.nm.us/cpr/ahsd_top.htm
General
- Account books
- Americans -- Mexico
- Archives --New Mexico--Catalogs
- Conveyances
- Decrees
- Diaries
- Dockets
- Estate inventories
- Franciscans --Missions--New Mexico
- Land grants --New Mexico
- Land titles --Registration and transfer--New Mexico
- Legal documents
- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
- Mines and mineral resources --New Mexico
- Minutes (Records)
- New Mexico -- History -- To 1848
- New Mexico --Colonization--History
- Petitions
- Presidio de Santa Fe (Santa Fe, N.M.) Judicial records
- Provincias Internas (New Spain) -- History
- Pueblo Indians --Land tenure
- Registers
- Reports
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration
- Vargas, Diego de, 1643-1704
- Water rights -- New Mexico
- Wills
- Title
- Inventory of the Spanish Archives of New Mexico I, 1685-1912
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by J. Richard Salazar
- Date
- ©2000
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- June 28, 2004: PUBLIC "-//New Mexico State Records Center and Archives//TEXT (US::Nm-Ar::1972-002::Spanish Archives of New Mexico I)//EN" "nmar1972-002.sgml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15).
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives Repository