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Audiencia de Guadalajara - Volumes, 1550-1813

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Scope and Contents

From the Series: Northern Provinces: Guadalajara, Audiencia administration, governors, officials, salaries, disputes; Consejo de Indias, King of Spain, cedulas, letters, accounts; Nueva Galicia, Nueva Vizcaya, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Oaxaca; Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Culiacan, Nueva Galica, cases, claims; Nuño de Guzman, cases; Francisco Urdiñola, cases; José de Urrutia; Diego, Juan and Francisco Ibarra; Descriptions, geography, conditions, presidios, Indians, Durango, Parral, Saltillo, Zacatecas, Charcas, Casas Grandes, El Gallo, etc.; Status of city for Zacatecas, coat of arms. Church, missions, officials, accounts, crown expenses, poor conditions, establishing bishops, padres learning Indian languages, Indians learning Spanish, competition between churchmen from Castilla and native born clergy, building the catedral of Guadalajara, chapel for Parral. Economy, regulations, mining, commerce, stores, businesses, commerce between Nueva Vizcaya, Sonora, New Mexico, wine, not to be sold to Indians. Justices, crimes, cases, Rights of women, widows, daughters, inheriting encomiendas. Indians, treatment, slavery, defense of their rights, wars, encomiendas, repartimientos, Indian rebellions, Chichimecas, Tepeguantes, Guachichiles, Conchos; Sonora, Arizona, Pimeria Alta, Pimas, Sumas, Hiaquis, Yaqui; Tarahumara, Tobosos, Pima Indian prisoners in Nueva Vizcaya; Sonora mines, presidios. Negros, tax on free Negro, Mulatos, keeping Negros separate from Indians Chinese slaves.

Provincias Internas: Defense, presidios, Indian attacks, Compania Volante, militia, reports, conditions, Pedro de Rivera, Francisco Alvarez Barreiro, Teodoro de Croix, orders, troops, weapons, cavalry, breast plates from Europe, service records of frontier officials, American Revolution with England, patriots, frontier donations to war effort

New Mexico: Fray Marcos de Niza, Estebanico (Esteban); Oñate, case, exile; Camino Real, Nueva Vizcaya to New Mexico; Missions, crown support, church and state conflict; Santa Fe cabildo, officials; Cristobal de Avila, merits, service, claims, New Mexico hidalgo; Baltazar Dominguez de Mendoza, claims; Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, claims, family; Toribio Huerta, claims; Hernan Gallegos, claims. Pueblos, conditions of Indians, 1679, Antonio de Otermin, Pueblo Revolt, testimony by Indians and Spanish, Spanish retreat to El Paso, conditions among settlers, problems there, Pueblo occupation of Santa Fe, Diego de Vargas, recovery of New Mexico, Pueblo cooperation, negotiations, alliances, supplies for New Mexico, horses, soldiers, crown expenses, many details on the reconquest, Indian and Spanish testimonies, reports Noble status for Spanish who return with De Vargas, hidalgos; List of Spanish who were killed, died of sickness in reconquest; Role of Acoma, Isleta, Zuni, Nambe, etc. in revolt, recovery, Santa Fe cabildo vs. De Vargas, De Vargas residencia, death of De Vargas, Vargas encomienda in New Mexico, Title of Marquez de Nava Brazinas, family claims. Other governors of New Mexico, what they did before and after their terms, Jose Chacon Medina Salazar, Pedro Rodriguez Cubero, Domingo Jironza de Cruzate, Antonio Marin del Valle, Francisco Cuervo y Valdes, Pueblo Indians support Cuervo continuing as governor of New Mexico, founding of Albuquerque, Galisteo, Juan de Ulibarri, Albuquerque presidio, midway on amino Real, missions to Navajo, Hopis - conquest, visit by Durango Bishop to New Mexico, a bishop for New Mexico, Exploration of southern Colorado River, Gila River, commerce with Nueva Vizcaya, Sonora, Arizona, New Mexico, mining, Sierra Azul, descriptions, geography, resources.

California: Discoveries, Cassante - material not in Chapman, Kino, Jesuits. Jesuit prisoners in California

Texas, Coahuila: Missions, settlers, Canary Islands, French in Texas, French deserters in New Orleans

Alaska: Russians, 1770s, description of Indians, letter in French

Dates

  • 1550-1813

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

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