Audiencia de Mexico - Volumes, 1525-1821
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Scope and Contents
From the Series:
New Spain: Hernan Cortes, in Cuba, conquest, men with him, government, treatment of the Indians, encomiendas, condition of Indians in his lands, family, wives, sons, lawsuits; Panfilo Narvaez, men with him, explorations, conflicts; Nuño de Guzman, conquests, conflicts with Audiencia, treatment of Indians, lawsuits; Service records, probanzas of many conquistadores and individuals in New Spain, Yucatan, etc., of value for Spanish genealogical studies; Montezuma family, claims. Government, regulations for New Spain, and often includes Peru, administration, elections, officials, salaries, residencias, patronage, almojarifazgos, salaries, fines, media anata (ecclesiastical tax), mercedes (granting of favors), lawsuits, Viceroy mistreatment of Audiencia de Mexico and other officials, mistreatment of Spanish citizens, Viceroy visits to Mexico City and other parts of country, officials to make visits only once a year, savings, use of interpreters, difficulties of learning Indian languages, disputes and competition between Audiencia de Mexico and Audiencia de Guadalajara, between encomenderos and religious, church - state conflict, reports, conditions, etc. Encomiendas, repartimientos, vacancies, rents reverting to crown, rents for two, three lives, New Laws, etc., crown’s efforts to collect, save money, reduce debt, give money to aid poor, churches, hospitals, schools; many regulations, encomenderos and their families to live part of year in their pueblos, aid to conquistadors without encomiendas, funds for sons and nephews of conquistadores, inheritance lawsuits, widows, women, marriage requirements for positions, etc. Economic development, fleets, treasury shipments to Spain, accounts, crown expenses, priorities, taxes, fines, tariffs, accounts, trade; mining, azogue, economy, ranching, estancias, ganado, cattle, horses, pastures, crops, corn, wheat, monopolies, one for playing cards in Nicaragua, wine, meat markets, pulque, silk, salt, cochineal, etc.; 1699 financial accounts for many provinces, reports, collection funds for crown; roads, repair, Indian labor on roads; role of merchants from Castilla, visits from foreigners to New Spain, need to build stores, places to sell goods brought over, security, robbers; commerce with Peru, Philippines; lack of craftsmen, skilled labor in New Spain, Mexico City . Other regulations, crimes, permission, licenses for bring over weapons, guidelines for measurements, prices, sugar cane mills, fiestas, printing, books, postage, mail, gambling, card games, women not to play any games or gamble; auaciles (constables) for Spanish, Free Blacks and Mulattos, Indians, Indian constables in their villages, checking on the vagabonds, homeless, jobless, peddlers, no games, gambling, wine shops or taverns in towns, forbidding sale of wine to Indians, and taverns in Indian pueblos, crimes of Spanish and punishments, Spanish jails, Indian jails, judges, cases, poverty in Mexico, lack of clothing, food, conditions. Missions, religious, teaching Indians Spanish, learning their languages, crown support, limosnas, diezmos, supplies, difficulty of conversions among Indian miners, laborers in encomiendas, repartimientos, reduction, consolidation, congregations for Indians, Indians not to give service to padres, rule Indian converts not live with Mestizos, Negros, Mulatos or Spanish, establishing Bishops, Archbishops, building churches, cathedrals, rule not to allow scandalous or excommunicated people in their dioceses, building monasteries, hospitals, education, schools for Indians, mestizos, orphans, schools and homes for Indian boys and girls, building college, University of Mexico City, Bernardo de Sahagun, educating Indian children of caciques as leaders, leaders, Papel Bulls, crown establishment of the Inquisition, rivalry criollo and peninsular clergy, competition between orders, Franciscans, Jesuits, Dominicans, Agustinians, Carmelites, separation of royal officials from church, Inquisition, other positions, La Sagrada Cruzada, Cofradias for Indians, Negros and Mulatos, Penitentes, Third Order of Franciscans beatification of friar Antonio Margil de Jesus. Indians, conditions of the Indians, foods, life, descriptions, impact of conversion, Indian laborers, encomiendas, repartimientos, tribute, in chickens, corn, products, complaints of Indians about Spanish officials, clergy mistreating them, letters from officials and churchmen defending Indians, Protector de Indios, rights of Indians, legal protection, suggestions for remedies, policies, obrajes, Indian slaves, mines, tamanes, idea in Yucatan to rent Indians’ labor instead of encomiendas; yearly plan for Indian labor vs. weekly, moving Indians to live by the mines, Indians voluntarily working in mines, Indians working for pay, Indian personal services to Spanish officials, clergy, complaints of mistreatment by their own Indian leaders, caciques taking tribute, food, selling Indian land to Spanish, selling repartimientos to Spanish; Indian health, decline, need for clothing, food, working for Spanish, not planting corn for food, conditions of Indian land, regulation for distance between fields of the hacienda and the fields of the Indians, Holy days, fiestas were time reserved for Indians not to work, permission for native dances, musical instruments, except not voladores, for safety, Indians need permits for using animals, wearing Spanish clothing, Spanish giving Indians clothing, provisions, positions held by Indians, aguaciles, lands, water, set aside for use of Indian congregations, towns, Mexico City, Women, rights, inheritance, widows, encomiendas, lawsuits, conditions of families, Spanish marriage requirements for royal positions, permissions to bring over male criados (servants) and their families but not single female criadas, Poor women in Mexico City, in need of care. Descriptions, geography, histories, reports, conditions, observation of eclipses; New Spain, Francisco de Fernandez, natural history, plants, animals of New Spain Negros, crown arranging for Negros laborers for mines, to save Indians; Free Negros and mulato - tribute, Negro uprising, New Spain, Cimarrones in Mexico, asked for padres and conversion. Hospitals, doctors, medicine, New Spain and Peru - Chief Medical officer, appointments, duties, instructions, epidemic, conditions, illness of Indians, hospitals for Indians, schools for Indians, funds for their care, Spanish going to Spain or Mexico City for medical treatment, deaths, handling of property and benefits of deceased
Guatemala, Chiapas, Honduras, Venezuela: Government, administration, regulations, missions, churches, encomiendas, resources.
Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Cozumel: Exploration, conquest, settlement, cedulas, administration, various governors Francisco de Montejo, administration, residencia, family; Campeche, Tabasco, Panuco, Cozumel, Valladolid, Merida, govenors, cabildo, missionaries, padres disputes with officials, encomiendas, repartimientos, Catalina de Ricalde vs. Pedro de Guzman encomienda lawsuit; Government corruption, disorder in the tribute system, unfair, effect on Indians; Disputes of other officials with each other, shortage of trained officials; Governors mistreat Indians, abuses of Indian women, and Spanish settlers,; Elections of alcaldes ordinarios, governor arrests, mistreats voters for opponents; Missions, church and state conflict, excommunications ; Social problems, crimes of Indians, mestizos, Negro, mulatos, treatment; Crown expenses for officials, missionaries, defense, economy, cochineal, silk, cloth, mining diezmos, wine tax to pay for roads damaged by wine carts; Defense, settlers asked to man forts, English intrusions, pirates, corsairs, French; Sisal, English and French Lutheran pirates rob the caciques and the churches; Veracruz, consulado, hospitals, mercaderes, flotas, new road to, puerto, Española, salt; Missions, convents, conversion, matricula de pueblos, conditions of Indians, idolatry, Indians practicing idolatry in open ceremonies during Holy Week; Need for monasteries, nuns, requests to king for funds for an orphan girl; Missions, mistreatment of Indians, their fleeing to the mountains; Yucatan Spanish encomenderos pay for hospitals and schools for Indians ; Yucatan Indians make a donation to King of Spain, teaching Indians Spanish; Bishop Diego de Landa’s letters to king, efforts to protect the Indians, remedies; Gaspar Antonio Chi, Indian interpreter, service to Spanish, Juan Chan, cacique, service to crown Yucatan; Mani Indian accounts, letters to king by Yucatan caciques in Mayan, Treatment of the Chontal, letters in Chontal from Indians with complaints.
New Spain: Northern Provinces: Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva Galicia, Guadalajara, Zacatecas, Antequera, Administration, governors, missions, churches, Inquisitor for Jalisco; Bishop of Tlaxcala, Antequera, Puebla, Michoacan, cathedrals ; Mining regulations, output, plans to settle the frontier; Sombrerete provisions, soldiers, horses, cattle for post-Revolt New Mexico; Guanajuato, Juan Flores Mogollon, tesoreo real; Nuevo León and Luis de Carvajal, expedition, pleitos, Panuco; Sinaloa, presidios, aid to New Mexico, Jesuits missions ; Coahuila, Nueva Estremadura, government, missions, and Tlaxcalans; Provincias Internas, Intendencias, officers, presidios, Sonora, Tarahumara, Yaqui; Diego de Ibarra, family, men serving with Ibarra, ties to Peru; Michoacan, Puebla, government, church and state conflict, Oaxaca, Mixtecas, idolatry, letter to king from Mixteca caciques, Indian revolts, Chichimecas, description of, war damages to Spanish and peaceful Indians; Use of Indian troops against Indian rebels, Xiximes, Jalisco cacique, Don Francisco, services to crown, Chichimeca Indian minstrals’ trip to Spain. Add: Diego de la Mezquita, Mexico meritos y servicios 1539, AGI 203, No. 32, DF, Box 4, Folder 39B
Philippines: Expeditions, settlement, government, encomiendas, repartimiento, gold and silver mines, missions, China, Japan, trade, regulations, fleets, war, gift from King of China, selling of clothing from China not permitted in Peru, call for girls as settlers to Philippines, Jesuit missions, Dutch, Holland, pirates in the Philippines
New Mexico: Coronado, Governor of Nueva Galicia, residencia, service records of men with him, Bocanegra family, Coronado daughters, merits, compensation, titles; Chamuscado - Rodríguez expedition, expenses; Antonio Espejo expedition, family, pleitos; Gaspar Castaño de Sosa expedition, Juan de Morlete; Juan de Oñate and viceroys, contract, expenses for colony in NM; Juan Bautista de Lomas, Francisco de Urdiñola, counter offers to colonize New Mexico; List of people coming to New Mexico with Oñate, supplies for colony; Missionaries and Inquisition for New Mexico, crown expenses; Onate wanted all orders of religious to come to colony; Oñate petition for a bishop for New Mexico; Onate expedition to South Sea, Pacific Coast; Juan Martinez de Montoya, proposed governor; Acoma, Hopi, Zuni, trip to Quivira, Indio Miguel ; Onate, mining, request for tools to stamp silver in New Mexico; Apache attacks on New Mexico colony, 1608; Oñate, complains, desertions, letters from soldiers, etc., crown sends troops to colony; Resignation, rumber of Indian conversions, reason for keeping colony; Gaspar de Villagra, Cristóbal de Avila, service, claims; Oñate family - Cristobal and Alonso de Oñate, merits, services, rentas, compensation; Juan de Oñate, takes Indians from New Spain to Spain for mine inspections. Descriptions of early New Mexico, geography, rivers, metal ores, Native houses, fireplaces, foods, culture, Spanish settlement. Pedro de Peralta, appointment, instructions, founding Santa Fe, population; Cabildo of Santa Fe, actions, conditions in the villa, presidio, church; New Mexico estancias, encomiendas, Indian tribute; Indians too poor for tribute, descriptions of Indians, missions; Alonso de Benavides, missions, petition king not allow tribute in New Mexico; Crown expense for missions, carros, caravans, Indian laborers, missions, escorts; Parral, crimes of Indians, treatment, dangers for caravans; Other governors, Juan de Eulate, Pedro de Cubero, Felipe Sotelo Osorio, Diego de Peñalosa, Jose Chacon Medina Salazar; Careers of governors before and after terms in New Mexico; Missions, treatment of Indians of New Mexico by padres and governors. Antonio de Otermín and Pueblo Revolt, conditions in New Mexico, destruction of Spanish haciendas, churches, Indian view of revolt, Spanish opinions of how to recover the colony, Spanish; pardon of rebels, relations with Pueblos, Isleta, Sandia, etc., Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, Padre Ayeta, Pedro de Cubero; Diego de Vargas and reconquest and resettlement of New Mexico; Alliances with some pueblo, battles with others, resupplying colony; De Vargas family, claims, compensation; Toribio de Huerta, Sierra Azul, mines, Arizona, Sonora, Pimeria Alta, missions, mining ; Governor Cuervo y Valdez, conflict with padres, and Apache campaigns, Other governors, Pedro de Mendinueta, Joseph Chacon, Felix Martinez ; Governors of New Mexico up to 1812, some of them not commonly known; Founding of villa of Albuquerque, Galisteo, villa of Santa Cruz; Possibility of third villa - Cerralvo; Juan de Ulibarri going to Great Plains, Missouri, St. Louis; Population of New Mexico, 1745; Pedro Pino, delegate to Spanish Cortes, trip to Veracruz, Mexico; Facundo Melgares, Governor.
El Paso and Texas: Administration presidio, defense, soldiers for, geography of area ; Efforts to establish refuge towns for New Mexicans fleeing the revolt, Santa Fe cabildo in exile, supplies and soldiers for New Mexico, Texas, Spanish settlement, missions, Apache attacks, American intrusions, contraband, desire in 1809 to overtake Texas from Spanish.
California: Exploration, settlement, missions, defense; Sebastian Vizcaino, merits and services, compensation; Vizcaino ships joining fleet to Philippines; Sebastian Ríos Cermeño, reaching California from Philippines; Descriptions of Cabo de Mendocino, coasts, founding Monterrey; Spanish exploration along the coast, English attacks on California coast; California missions, presidios, service records of soldiers; Arizona, Sonora, Juan Bautista de Anza, presidios.
Florida: Exploration, ships for, settlers for, name of settlers, Santa Elena, San Agustin, presidio; Conditions of Indians, missions, conversion, bad example of Spanish to Indians; Tristan de Luna y Arellano, Pedro Menendez de Avila, Indian describes English on Mississippi, Spanish Florida colony, distance to New Mexico, possible routes between New Mexico and Florida, from Zacatecas mines to Florida, French in Gulf of Mexico, La Salle, Gulf Coast, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana. Capture of Frenchmen Archibeque and Gurule, sent to New Mexico.
Guatemala, Chiapas, Honduras, Venezuela: Government, administration, regulations, missions, churches, encomiendas, resources.
Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Cozumel: Exploration, conquest, settlement, cedulas, administration, various governors Francisco de Montejo, administration, residencia, family; Campeche, Tabasco, Panuco, Cozumel, Valladolid, Merida, govenors, cabildo, missionaries, padres disputes with officials, encomiendas, repartimientos, Catalina de Ricalde vs. Pedro de Guzman encomienda lawsuit; Government corruption, disorder in the tribute system, unfair, effect on Indians; Disputes of other officials with each other, shortage of trained officials; Governors mistreat Indians, abuses of Indian women, and Spanish settlers,; Elections of alcaldes ordinarios, governor arrests, mistreats voters for opponents; Missions, church and state conflict, excommunications ; Social problems, crimes of Indians, mestizos, Negro, mulatos, treatment; Crown expenses for officials, missionaries, defense, economy, cochineal, silk, cloth, mining diezmos, wine tax to pay for roads damaged by wine carts; Defense, settlers asked to man forts, English intrusions, pirates, corsairs, French; Sisal, English and French Lutheran pirates rob the caciques and the churches; Veracruz, consulado, hospitals, mercaderes, flotas, new road to, puerto, Española, salt; Missions, convents, conversion, matricula de pueblos, conditions of Indians, idolatry, Indians practicing idolatry in open ceremonies during Holy Week; Need for monasteries, nuns, requests to king for funds for an orphan girl; Missions, mistreatment of Indians, their fleeing to the mountains; Yucatan Spanish encomenderos pay for hospitals and schools for Indians ; Yucatan Indians make a donation to King of Spain, teaching Indians Spanish; Bishop Diego de Landa’s letters to king, efforts to protect the Indians, remedies; Gaspar Antonio Chi, Indian interpreter, service to Spanish, Juan Chan, cacique, service to crown Yucatan; Mani Indian accounts, letters to king by Yucatan caciques in Mayan, Treatment of the Chontal, letters in Chontal from Indians with complaints.
New Spain: Northern Provinces: Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva Galicia, Guadalajara, Zacatecas, Antequera, Administration, governors, missions, churches, Inquisitor for Jalisco; Bishop of Tlaxcala, Antequera, Puebla, Michoacan, cathedrals ; Mining regulations, output, plans to settle the frontier; Sombrerete provisions, soldiers, horses, cattle for post-Revolt New Mexico; Guanajuato, Juan Flores Mogollon, tesoreo real; Nuevo León and Luis de Carvajal, expedition, pleitos, Panuco; Sinaloa, presidios, aid to New Mexico, Jesuits missions ; Coahuila, Nueva Estremadura, government, missions, and Tlaxcalans; Provincias Internas, Intendencias, officers, presidios, Sonora, Tarahumara, Yaqui; Diego de Ibarra, family, men serving with Ibarra, ties to Peru; Michoacan, Puebla, government, church and state conflict, Oaxaca, Mixtecas, idolatry, letter to king from Mixteca caciques, Indian revolts, Chichimecas, description of, war damages to Spanish and peaceful Indians; Use of Indian troops against Indian rebels, Xiximes, Jalisco cacique, Don Francisco, services to crown, Chichimeca Indian minstrals’ trip to Spain. Add: Diego de la Mezquita, Mexico meritos y servicios 1539, AGI 203, No. 32, DF, Box 4, Folder 39B
Philippines: Expeditions, settlement, government, encomiendas, repartimiento, gold and silver mines, missions, China, Japan, trade, regulations, fleets, war, gift from King of China, selling of clothing from China not permitted in Peru, call for girls as settlers to Philippines, Jesuit missions, Dutch, Holland, pirates in the Philippines
New Mexico: Coronado, Governor of Nueva Galicia, residencia, service records of men with him, Bocanegra family, Coronado daughters, merits, compensation, titles; Chamuscado - Rodríguez expedition, expenses; Antonio Espejo expedition, family, pleitos; Gaspar Castaño de Sosa expedition, Juan de Morlete; Juan de Oñate and viceroys, contract, expenses for colony in NM; Juan Bautista de Lomas, Francisco de Urdiñola, counter offers to colonize New Mexico; List of people coming to New Mexico with Oñate, supplies for colony; Missionaries and Inquisition for New Mexico, crown expenses; Onate wanted all orders of religious to come to colony; Oñate petition for a bishop for New Mexico; Onate expedition to South Sea, Pacific Coast; Juan Martinez de Montoya, proposed governor; Acoma, Hopi, Zuni, trip to Quivira, Indio Miguel ; Onate, mining, request for tools to stamp silver in New Mexico; Apache attacks on New Mexico colony, 1608; Oñate, complains, desertions, letters from soldiers, etc., crown sends troops to colony; Resignation, rumber of Indian conversions, reason for keeping colony; Gaspar de Villagra, Cristóbal de Avila, service, claims; Oñate family - Cristobal and Alonso de Oñate, merits, services, rentas, compensation; Juan de Oñate, takes Indians from New Spain to Spain for mine inspections. Descriptions of early New Mexico, geography, rivers, metal ores, Native houses, fireplaces, foods, culture, Spanish settlement. Pedro de Peralta, appointment, instructions, founding Santa Fe, population; Cabildo of Santa Fe, actions, conditions in the villa, presidio, church; New Mexico estancias, encomiendas, Indian tribute; Indians too poor for tribute, descriptions of Indians, missions; Alonso de Benavides, missions, petition king not allow tribute in New Mexico; Crown expense for missions, carros, caravans, Indian laborers, missions, escorts; Parral, crimes of Indians, treatment, dangers for caravans; Other governors, Juan de Eulate, Pedro de Cubero, Felipe Sotelo Osorio, Diego de Peñalosa, Jose Chacon Medina Salazar; Careers of governors before and after terms in New Mexico; Missions, treatment of Indians of New Mexico by padres and governors. Antonio de Otermín and Pueblo Revolt, conditions in New Mexico, destruction of Spanish haciendas, churches, Indian view of revolt, Spanish opinions of how to recover the colony, Spanish; pardon of rebels, relations with Pueblos, Isleta, Sandia, etc., Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, Padre Ayeta, Pedro de Cubero; Diego de Vargas and reconquest and resettlement of New Mexico; Alliances with some pueblo, battles with others, resupplying colony; De Vargas family, claims, compensation; Toribio de Huerta, Sierra Azul, mines, Arizona, Sonora, Pimeria Alta, missions, mining ; Governor Cuervo y Valdez, conflict with padres, and Apache campaigns, Other governors, Pedro de Mendinueta, Joseph Chacon, Felix Martinez ; Governors of New Mexico up to 1812, some of them not commonly known; Founding of villa of Albuquerque, Galisteo, villa of Santa Cruz; Possibility of third villa - Cerralvo; Juan de Ulibarri going to Great Plains, Missouri, St. Louis; Population of New Mexico, 1745; Pedro Pino, delegate to Spanish Cortes, trip to Veracruz, Mexico; Facundo Melgares, Governor.
El Paso and Texas: Administration presidio, defense, soldiers for, geography of area ; Efforts to establish refuge towns for New Mexicans fleeing the revolt, Santa Fe cabildo in exile, supplies and soldiers for New Mexico, Texas, Spanish settlement, missions, Apache attacks, American intrusions, contraband, desire in 1809 to overtake Texas from Spanish.
California: Exploration, settlement, missions, defense; Sebastian Vizcaino, merits and services, compensation; Vizcaino ships joining fleet to Philippines; Sebastian Ríos Cermeño, reaching California from Philippines; Descriptions of Cabo de Mendocino, coasts, founding Monterrey; Spanish exploration along the coast, English attacks on California coast; California missions, presidios, service records of soldiers; Arizona, Sonora, Juan Bautista de Anza, presidios.
Florida: Exploration, ships for, settlers for, name of settlers, Santa Elena, San Agustin, presidio; Conditions of Indians, missions, conversion, bad example of Spanish to Indians; Tristan de Luna y Arellano, Pedro Menendez de Avila, Indian describes English on Mississippi, Spanish Florida colony, distance to New Mexico, possible routes between New Mexico and Florida, from Zacatecas mines to Florida, French in Gulf of Mexico, La Salle, Gulf Coast, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana. Capture of Frenchmen Archibeque and Gurule, sent to New Mexico.
Dates
- 1525-1821
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English Spanish French Mayan
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 23 boxes (20.5 cu. ft.) 217 volumes, 107 microfilm reels, 2 boxes DVDs
General
(Located second floor of CSWR Anderson Reading Room)
Creator
- From the Collection: Bloom, Lansing Bartlett, 1880- (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