Packet II, Maps of Colonial New Mexico, 1771-1784
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Scope and Contents
Packet II, Map 11, 1771 - Mapa de toda la Frontera de los dominios del rey en la America Septentrional, photocopy, poor copy. This map appears to have been created in 1771 by Nicolas de la Fora and Jose de Urrutia. It extends east from California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nueva Galicia, Nueva Vizcaya, Sonora, to Sinaloa and Coahuila, and north from Nueva Galicia to Taos. It includes Spanish settlements and Native American groups.
Packet II, Map 12, ca. 1770 - Plano del Rio del Norte desde San Elceareo (San Elizario) hasta el paraje de San Pascual, ca. 1770, by Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, photocopy, black and white, in Spanish. It includes the paraje of San Pascual, the Rio del Norte or Rio Grande, the presidio of San Elzeario, San Elizario, El Paso del Norte, Ysleta, Isleta del Sur, Senecu, San Lorenzo, Socorro, Mesilla, Los Frijoles, Plains of Santa Barbara, Bracito, Robledo and proposed presidio, irrigation and agriculture south of Mesilla, the Organ Mountains, Caballo Mountain, San Mateo Mountains, Fray Cristobal, Contadero Mesa, San Antonio de Senecu, the Magdalena Mountains, the dry plains to the East, Jornada del Muerto, Florida Mountains, Sierra Blanca, the Sacramento Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains, Siete Rios, and stronghold of the Apaches, and the beginning of the Gila Province to the West. Note from Adams, Pacheco, Academia de la Historia, Madrid.
Packet II, Map 13, 1776 - The Escalante Trail, 1776, compiled by Herbert E. Bolton and drawn by C. E. Erickson, printed, color, in English and Spanish. This map covers the route traveled by Fathers Escalante and Dominguez in 1776, from Santa Fe to the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and their return route crossing the Colorado near La Purisima Concepcion and back through Zuni. Includes place names and sites in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. Map 13 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G4301.S3 1776 .E7 1951 c.1 The Escalante trail : 1776 (213488746). This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 14, 1776-1789 - Nuevo Mexico 1776-1789, compiled and written by John L. Kessell for the Albuquerque Bicentennial Commission, 1975, printed on tan paper, in color, in English and Spanish. The main map draws upon that made by the Spanish cartography, Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, for Governor de Anza, entitled Plano de la Provincia interna de el Nuebo Mexico, dated 1779. On the right lower side of same is a sub-set map, also by Pacheco, called Plano del Rio del Norte desde San Elzeareo hasta el paraje de San Pascual, dated ca. 1770s. This a copy of Map # 12 noted above. Kessell noted the San Elizario map was used in the book by Adams and Chavez called The Missions of New Mexico, 1776. These maps are accompanied by bits of background information by Kessell regarding Spanish colonial history, military, political, and religious endeavors in the region.
Packet II, Map 15, 1778 - Plano Geografico de los Descubrimentos hechos por Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, etc., color print, 1778. It shows the northern, northwestern, and western areas of New Mexico traveled by Padre Dominguez, Padre Escalante and Miera y Pacheco. The color print is a facsimile of the original in the Western Americana Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, as reproduced by the Meriden Gravure Company, 1970. Note from Adams, this map contains the combined four parts of the 1778 Pacheco map as seen in Map # 19. Some of the main features of the map have been described elsewhere in this collection. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Map 15 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G4300 1778 .M51 1970 c.1 Map of New Mexico with latest discoveries. (5566748).
Packet II, Map 16, 1778 - Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta, nuevamente, a los rumbos norte, noroeste and oeste, de Nuevo Mexico, etc., 1778, by the Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, while accompanying the Padres Dominguez and Escalante, in 1778 to Utah and the Colorado River. This is a color reproduction, good quality. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Map 16 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G4301.S12 1778 .M5 c.1 Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta, nuebamente, a los Rumbos Norte Noroeste y Oeste, del Nuebo Mexico (31994830). See Map # 19 for more details.
Packet II, Map 17, 1778 - New Mexico by Escalante, 1778, in Spanish, photocopy, black and white, poor copy. This map is modern, reduced edition of the full map called Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta, nuevamente, a los rumbos norte, noroeste y oeste de Nuevo Mexico, etc., drawn by the Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, while accompanying the Padres Dominguez and Escalante, in 1778 to Utah and the Colorado River. See Escalante Map # 13.
Packet II, Map 18, 1778 - Plano Geografico de la Tierra descubierta, y demarcada, etc., 1778, photocopy, black and white, poor copy, by Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, in Spanish. This map shows the discovered and marked or known lands of New Mexico, from Belen north into Colorado and Utah, and west to the Colorado River. It includes the Pueblo villages and Spanish settlements, and the lands of the Comanches, Navajos, Hopis, Coninas, and other groups.
Packet II, Map 19, 1778, in 4 parts, photocopies, medium quality. These are four sub sections of a full map called Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta, nuevamente, a los rumbos norte, noroeste and oeste, de Nuevo Mexico, etc., 1778, by the Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, while accompanying the Padres Dominguez and Escalante, in 1778 to Utah and the Colorado River. Map 19, 1778, Part a - has the map title, a drawing of a Spanish coach and coat of arms, and the map description, and shows the north and northeastern part of New Mexico, extending to the Rio de San Buenaventura and what is now Colorado and the lands of the Comanches. These 4 part are scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Also, the 4 parts have been digitally sewn together and appear as a whole map on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 19, 1778, Part b - has the area below Part a, along the Rio Grande, from Belen into southern Colorado, and west to Zuni Pueblo, with the Spanish settlements and Pueblo villages, and the lands of the Utes, Navajos, and Comanches. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 19, 1778, Part c - has the area to the west of Part b, being west of the lands of Acoma, the Navajos, Utes and the Colorado River and north into Utah. It notes the Hopi area, other Native American groups and the beginning of the lands of the Mescalero Apaches, etc. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 19, 1778, Part d - has the area north of Part c, north into Utah and beyond to tierra incognita or the unknown lands. It includes the Rio de San Buenaventura, the Laguna de los Timpanogos, el Rio de Tizon or Grand Canyon, and the lands of the Timpanogos, Utes, Comanches, etc. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 20, 1778 - Derrotero hecho en 1778 por el Comandante General Croix, photocopy, black and white, in Spanish. The map, also called the Bolson Map, shows the route taken by Teodoro de Croix, head of the Provincias Internas as he traveled and inspected locations in Durango, Nueva Vizcaya, Chihuahua and the Bolson de Mapimi to Coahuila and Texas - the borderlands. The map indicates the presidios, Spanish towns, cities, missions, bishops, haciendas, ranches, ruins, mines, roads, water holes, etc. from the Villa of Chihuahua to San Antonio Bejar. Notes written on the map say No. 11, 1778, Servicio Geografico del Ejercito, and copia sacada en Chihuahua por Uria, 1850. The map was copied from the Bancroft Library, University of California.
Packet II, Map 21, 1779 - Plano de la Provincia interna de el Nuebo Mexico, a map made for Governor Juan Bautista de Anza by 1779, by Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, glossy photograph, and three photocopies, in Spanish. The glossy photograph map shows villas, Spanish settlements, Indian ruins, Spanish ruins, villages of the Christian Pueblo Indians, Indian Rancherias and water holes or springs from Taos to Mesilla, and west to Zuni. It includes the Rio Grande, the Spanish alcaldias of Taos, Santa Cruz de la Canada, Santa Fe, Alburquerque, Albuquerque, Laguna, Zuni, Sandia, and the Alcaldia de Los Queres. Also has the lands of the Utes, Navajos and Comanches. Other places given are Abiquiu, Chama, Atrisco, Huertas, Corrales, Alameda, Pajarito, Padillas, Los Chaves, Belen, Ladron Peak, Tome, Sevilleta, the Valle de los Bacas or the Valle Grande or Valles Caldera, north of Jemez Pueblo, Cabezon, and other places. Someone drew the alcaldia lines with a marker. Notes from Adams, Real Academia de Historia, Madrid, Boturini Coleccion, T. 25, folio 1. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 21, 1779, Copy 2, same, enlarged, photocopy, poor quality.
Packet II, Map 21, 1779, Copy 3, same, larger photocopy, good image.
Packet II, Map 21 1779, Copy 4, same, larger yet, photocopy, poor quality.
Packet II, Map 22, 1779 - Mapa Geographico de una gran parte de la America septentrional comprehendido, 1779, photocopy, black and white, poor quality, in Spanish. This map spans from the Mississippi River west to the Pacific Ocean, north to Utah and south into northern Mexico. It shows Antigua, Nueva California, Sonora, Nueva Vizcaya, New Mexico, Coahuila and Texas. It includes Spanish presidios, towns, Pueblo villages, missions, routes, ranches, mines, and Native American Indian Rancherias and groups, including Chactas, Apaches, Hopis and Navajos.
Packet II, Map 23, 1784 - Rocha’s Map of the Gila River Basin, February 20, 1784, from Arispe, by Geronimo de la Rocha y Figueroa, photocopy, black and white, medium quality. This map was copied from the Bancroft Library. It is also called Mapa del Terreno que aye vatir de Expedición que deve excutarse contra los Apaches Gilenos, or map of the campaign against the Gila Apaches. It covers southwestern New Mexico, south of the Mogollon and Mimbres area, and northern Nueva Vizcaya and Sonora, and what was later Southern Arizona. The map shows presidios, pueblos, ranchos, mines, water holes, landmarks, etc.
Packet II, Map 12, ca. 1770 - Plano del Rio del Norte desde San Elceareo (San Elizario) hasta el paraje de San Pascual, ca. 1770, by Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, photocopy, black and white, in Spanish. It includes the paraje of San Pascual, the Rio del Norte or Rio Grande, the presidio of San Elzeario, San Elizario, El Paso del Norte, Ysleta, Isleta del Sur, Senecu, San Lorenzo, Socorro, Mesilla, Los Frijoles, Plains of Santa Barbara, Bracito, Robledo and proposed presidio, irrigation and agriculture south of Mesilla, the Organ Mountains, Caballo Mountain, San Mateo Mountains, Fray Cristobal, Contadero Mesa, San Antonio de Senecu, the Magdalena Mountains, the dry plains to the East, Jornada del Muerto, Florida Mountains, Sierra Blanca, the Sacramento Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains, Siete Rios, and stronghold of the Apaches, and the beginning of the Gila Province to the West. Note from Adams, Pacheco, Academia de la Historia, Madrid.
Packet II, Map 13, 1776 - The Escalante Trail, 1776, compiled by Herbert E. Bolton and drawn by C. E. Erickson, printed, color, in English and Spanish. This map covers the route traveled by Fathers Escalante and Dominguez in 1776, from Santa Fe to the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and their return route crossing the Colorado near La Purisima Concepcion and back through Zuni. Includes place names and sites in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. Map 13 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G4301.S3 1776 .E7 1951 c.1 The Escalante trail : 1776 (213488746). This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 14, 1776-1789 - Nuevo Mexico 1776-1789, compiled and written by John L. Kessell for the Albuquerque Bicentennial Commission, 1975, printed on tan paper, in color, in English and Spanish. The main map draws upon that made by the Spanish cartography, Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, for Governor de Anza, entitled Plano de la Provincia interna de el Nuebo Mexico, dated 1779. On the right lower side of same is a sub-set map, also by Pacheco, called Plano del Rio del Norte desde San Elzeareo hasta el paraje de San Pascual, dated ca. 1770s. This a copy of Map # 12 noted above. Kessell noted the San Elizario map was used in the book by Adams and Chavez called The Missions of New Mexico, 1776. These maps are accompanied by bits of background information by Kessell regarding Spanish colonial history, military, political, and religious endeavors in the region.
Packet II, Map 15, 1778 - Plano Geografico de los Descubrimentos hechos por Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, etc., color print, 1778. It shows the northern, northwestern, and western areas of New Mexico traveled by Padre Dominguez, Padre Escalante and Miera y Pacheco. The color print is a facsimile of the original in the Western Americana Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, as reproduced by the Meriden Gravure Company, 1970. Note from Adams, this map contains the combined four parts of the 1778 Pacheco map as seen in Map # 19. Some of the main features of the map have been described elsewhere in this collection. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Map 15 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G4300 1778 .M51 1970 c.1 Map of New Mexico with latest discoveries. (5566748).
Packet II, Map 16, 1778 - Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta, nuevamente, a los rumbos norte, noroeste and oeste, de Nuevo Mexico, etc., 1778, by the Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, while accompanying the Padres Dominguez and Escalante, in 1778 to Utah and the Colorado River. This is a color reproduction, good quality. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Map 16 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G4301.S12 1778 .M5 c.1 Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta, nuebamente, a los Rumbos Norte Noroeste y Oeste, del Nuebo Mexico (31994830). See Map # 19 for more details.
Packet II, Map 17, 1778 - New Mexico by Escalante, 1778, in Spanish, photocopy, black and white, poor copy. This map is modern, reduced edition of the full map called Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta, nuevamente, a los rumbos norte, noroeste y oeste de Nuevo Mexico, etc., drawn by the Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, while accompanying the Padres Dominguez and Escalante, in 1778 to Utah and the Colorado River. See Escalante Map # 13.
Packet II, Map 18, 1778 - Plano Geografico de la Tierra descubierta, y demarcada, etc., 1778, photocopy, black and white, poor copy, by Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, in Spanish. This map shows the discovered and marked or known lands of New Mexico, from Belen north into Colorado and Utah, and west to the Colorado River. It includes the Pueblo villages and Spanish settlements, and the lands of the Comanches, Navajos, Hopis, Coninas, and other groups.
Packet II, Map 19, 1778, in 4 parts, photocopies, medium quality. These are four sub sections of a full map called Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta, nuevamente, a los rumbos norte, noroeste and oeste, de Nuevo Mexico, etc., 1778, by the Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, while accompanying the Padres Dominguez and Escalante, in 1778 to Utah and the Colorado River. Map 19, 1778, Part a - has the map title, a drawing of a Spanish coach and coat of arms, and the map description, and shows the north and northeastern part of New Mexico, extending to the Rio de San Buenaventura and what is now Colorado and the lands of the Comanches. These 4 part are scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Also, the 4 parts have been digitally sewn together and appear as a whole map on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 19, 1778, Part b - has the area below Part a, along the Rio Grande, from Belen into southern Colorado, and west to Zuni Pueblo, with the Spanish settlements and Pueblo villages, and the lands of the Utes, Navajos, and Comanches. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 19, 1778, Part c - has the area to the west of Part b, being west of the lands of Acoma, the Navajos, Utes and the Colorado River and north into Utah. It notes the Hopi area, other Native American groups and the beginning of the lands of the Mescalero Apaches, etc. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 19, 1778, Part d - has the area north of Part c, north into Utah and beyond to tierra incognita or the unknown lands. It includes the Rio de San Buenaventura, the Laguna de los Timpanogos, el Rio de Tizon or Grand Canyon, and the lands of the Timpanogos, Utes, Comanches, etc. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 20, 1778 - Derrotero hecho en 1778 por el Comandante General Croix, photocopy, black and white, in Spanish. The map, also called the Bolson Map, shows the route taken by Teodoro de Croix, head of the Provincias Internas as he traveled and inspected locations in Durango, Nueva Vizcaya, Chihuahua and the Bolson de Mapimi to Coahuila and Texas - the borderlands. The map indicates the presidios, Spanish towns, cities, missions, bishops, haciendas, ranches, ruins, mines, roads, water holes, etc. from the Villa of Chihuahua to San Antonio Bejar. Notes written on the map say No. 11, 1778, Servicio Geografico del Ejercito, and copia sacada en Chihuahua por Uria, 1850. The map was copied from the Bancroft Library, University of California.
Packet II, Map 21, 1779 - Plano de la Provincia interna de el Nuebo Mexico, a map made for Governor Juan Bautista de Anza by 1779, by Spanish cartographer, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, glossy photograph, and three photocopies, in Spanish. The glossy photograph map shows villas, Spanish settlements, Indian ruins, Spanish ruins, villages of the Christian Pueblo Indians, Indian Rancherias and water holes or springs from Taos to Mesilla, and west to Zuni. It includes the Rio Grande, the Spanish alcaldias of Taos, Santa Cruz de la Canada, Santa Fe, Alburquerque, Albuquerque, Laguna, Zuni, Sandia, and the Alcaldia de Los Queres. Also has the lands of the Utes, Navajos and Comanches. Other places given are Abiquiu, Chama, Atrisco, Huertas, Corrales, Alameda, Pajarito, Padillas, Los Chaves, Belen, Ladron Peak, Tome, Sevilleta, the Valle de los Bacas or the Valle Grande or Valles Caldera, north of Jemez Pueblo, Cabezon, and other places. Someone drew the alcaldia lines with a marker. Notes from Adams, Real Academia de Historia, Madrid, Boturini Coleccion, T. 25, folio 1. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.
Packet II, Map 21, 1779, Copy 2, same, enlarged, photocopy, poor quality.
Packet II, Map 21, 1779, Copy 3, same, larger photocopy, good image.
Packet II, Map 21 1779, Copy 4, same, larger yet, photocopy, poor quality.
Packet II, Map 22, 1779 - Mapa Geographico de una gran parte de la America septentrional comprehendido, 1779, photocopy, black and white, poor quality, in Spanish. This map spans from the Mississippi River west to the Pacific Ocean, north to Utah and south into northern Mexico. It shows Antigua, Nueva California, Sonora, Nueva Vizcaya, New Mexico, Coahuila and Texas. It includes Spanish presidios, towns, Pueblo villages, missions, routes, ranches, mines, and Native American Indian Rancherias and groups, including Chactas, Apaches, Hopis and Navajos.
Packet II, Map 23, 1784 - Rocha’s Map of the Gila River Basin, February 20, 1784, from Arispe, by Geronimo de la Rocha y Figueroa, photocopy, black and white, medium quality. This map was copied from the Bancroft Library. It is also called Mapa del Terreno que aye vatir de Expedición que deve excutarse contra los Apaches Gilenos, or map of the campaign against the Gila Apaches. It covers southwestern New Mexico, south of the Mogollon and Mimbres area, and northern Nueva Vizcaya and Sonora, and what was later Southern Arizona. The map shows presidios, pueblos, ranchos, mines, water holes, landmarks, etc.
Dates
- 1771-1784
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 20 boxes (14.25 cu. ft.), plus 1 oversize folder
Creator
- From the Collection: Adams, Eleanor B. (Eleanor Burnham), 1910-1996 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451