Inquisition, 1606-1820
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New Spain - Selected papers from the Holy Office, officials, letters, instructions, operations, cases. Investigations, limpiezas de sangre for employees to work for the Holy Office; cleric site visits; reports on religious in various locations; suits against the Inquisition office; conflicts between the Inquisition and other officials, civil and religious. Investigations included here, for example, covered a few individual from a much larger population. They are under suspicion for various alleged offenses to the Holy Faith, not all proven, mostly for bad Christian behavior. Here there are six cases for suspicion of practicing Judaism. People involved vary, among others, an old conquistador, medical doctor, governors and ship captains, a poet, several women, Lutheran pirates, a Greek, a Chino, Mestizos, Negros and Mulatos, Indian caciques, Indians, churchmen and Inquisition officials themselves. Some individuals are given by name, sometimes with information on their genealogy and possessions. Not all cases have conclusions. Investigations and cases represented here involved, among other things: Indian art, animal drawings, idolatry, sacrifices, dances, banned art, books, catalog of banned books and lists given. Bigamy, adultery, illicit sex, incest, homosexuality, blasphemy, heresy, bad morals, propositions or bad words about the Bible or faith traditions, or about the religious. Investigations of Protestants, Lutherans, foreigners, some intruding in Spanish territory, bringing contraband, or captured in war, English, French, Flemish, Portuguese, Italians, Genoa, Venice. John Hawkins - crewman; Miguel Perez, Juan Brum, pirate, Tlaxcala, 1573. Thomas Cavandish crewmen, on Pacific coast, California - case includes map of west coast New Spain, from Guatemala to California, 1587, detailed. Cases about use of herbs, sometimes similar to a curandera, sex potents, peyote, witchcraft, superstition, murder, suicide. Education, teaching, printing the Bible, catechism in Indian languages, using Indian illustrations. The majority of this material pertains to New Mexico.
Examples of New Spain - Inquisition cases - Judaism - suspicion of being a Jew, Judio - three cases in Mexico - Gonzalo Gomez, Mexico City, 1536; Manuel Gomez de Acosta, Portuguese, deceased, Nueva Veracruz, 1635; Manuel de Medina, tailor, Portuguese, Minas de San Diego Nuevo, Cocula, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1667. (Three investigations in New Mexico were Fray Juan Ramirez, 1664; Juan Gomez and four associates, 1661 and Gov. Lopez de Mendizabal and wife, 1663.) Idolatry - Campeche, 1582, Negro slave, idolatry, ate food offered by Indians to gods. Dominican found profane Indian images of Child Jesus, 1621. Oaxaca, Yanhuitlan, Indian governors, caciques, for idolatry, human sacrifice, detailed; 1557. Indian infidel in church, unbaptized person buried in church. Idolatry case in 1706, Zumpango, state of Mexico, Indian cacique, sacrifices, idolatry, 1547. Puebla, Teutalco, cacique, copal, rain gods, idolatry, 1546, detailed. Tabasco, witchcraft, Ana Gomez, wife Benito Bejel, Mexico, 1528. Indian male witches in Tabasco, 1575. Tlalmanalco, state of Mexico, 1573, Padre printing catechism in Nahuatl, changing the vocabulary. Yucatan, Merida, Cristobal de Miranda, commissioner of the Inquisition, limpieza de sangre, genealogy, secret marriages, conflicts with Bishop and others, 1575, Bishop Diego de Landa, cases. Mexico, limpieza de sangre, 1788, as official of the Inquisition, Junto Jose Santos del Valle, genealogy. Zacatecas, Chichimecas, investigations, 1580s. Study from doctors of Puebla, 1702, about surgery on cranium. Other: Tabla, 1810-1815, list of congregations, missions, in Latin, New Spain. Almanac, 1714, from Mexico, for missions, notes on feast days for the Indians, others for the Spanish, saints, church finances, etc.
New Spain – among places – Acapulco, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Durango, Guadalajara, Guatemala, Honduras, Jalisco, Merida, state of Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, Oaxaca, Orizaba, Parral, Puebla, Sonora, Tenochtitlan, Tlaxcala, Valladolid, Veracruz, Yucatan, Yanhuitlan, Zacatecas, Zupango.
Note- there is an Inqusition case in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid, see CSWR, AGI - Mss 841- Ramo AHN, Diego de Uceda, investigated as a Lutheran, 1528-30, Cordova, Spain.
New Mexico – selected cases. Some cases identified by individual name, with detail, and others just lists of cases for various years, giving names of individuals and the charges. Provides view of society, problems, conditions in New Mexico, 1600s-1700s - Spanish, Indians, mestizos, Negros, Mulatos in the colony, etc. Spanish views of Indians; treatment; Indian views of Spanish, testimony against Spanish. Includes a few references to encomiendas, estancias, haciendas, missions, towns, etc. Role of women, giving testimony, involved in witchcraft cases, women and men, possible curandera, links to herbs, books of herbs. Several letters in Portuguese.
Examples – from New Mexico - Judaism, Judio - Jew - Gov. Bernardo López de Mendizábal, and wife Teresa, 1663, suspicion of practicing Judaism, Jew, detailed. Case of Juan and Andres Gomez, sons of Portuguese, Francisco Gomez, suspicion of practicing Judaism, 1661, detailed, genealogy, also investigated were associates, Domingo Lopez Zambrano, Domingo Lopez de Ocanto and Ana Romero, 1663. Case of Fray Juan Ramirez, 1664, serving in New Mexico, accused of practicing Judaism, detailed. Other - Juan de Oñate, at San Gabriel, dealth with cases of women, witchcraft, 1606-1607. Santo Domingo Pueblo, religious had Jumana or Apache girl slave, servant, 1617. Complaints against the Padres, Inquisitors, mistreating Indians and Spanish, sex with women, homosexuals, disrupting the colony. Spanish bringing Indian orphans from Salinas, 1620s. Fray Esteban de Perea, Inquisition, Santa Fe, Perea’s limpieza de sangre, geneology. Governors – padres - church and state conflicts,criticism of the religious and the civil authorities, detailed - Fray Alonso de Benavidez; Fray Alonso de Posada, Padre Juan de Paz, 1664, and other religious over decades. Conclusion of France Scholes that Paz had gone too far in 1664 investigations resulting in tragic consequences for the New Mexico colony, social breakdown. Governors, various, treatment of Indians and settlers, conflicts with church, trading goods, sheep herds. Juan Manso, 1669 problems with the caravans, carros, piñon. Governors and Inquisition problems of Pedro de Peralta, Francisco de Mora de Ceballos, Juan de Eulate, Felipe de Sotelo Osorio, Francisco Martinez de Baeza, Luis de Rosa, and wife, detailed; Fernando de Villanueva, Fernando de la Concha, Pedro de Rodriguez Cubero, and others. Case 1663 of Gov. Diego de Peñalosa, from Lima, Peru, and his wife, for heresy, murder, residencia, detailed; grant of land to Peñalosa, New Mexico, 1671; Peñalosa’s possible encomienda, haciendas in El Paso, and in Santa Fe; and sheep herd at Taos Pueblo, 1662. Gov. Peñalosa took away encomiendas of his opponents - references to encomiendas, Diego Romero (Diego Perez), Francisco Gomez Robledo, Francisco de Anaya Almazan, Hernando Martin Serrano, Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, 1660s. Santa Fe, 1610s-20s conditions, settlers, expenses, shortages. Santa Fe cabildo, city council, and Governors, Padres. Indian service to Spanish, in expedition to High Plains.
Among other New Mexico cases - Diego Romero (Diego Perez), 1674, bigamy. Alonso Romero, from Sevilla, 1695, bigamy. Juan Garcia de la Mora Gachupin, of Santa Fe, 1733; bigamy. Geronimo Marquez, Santa Fe, conflicts with padres, 1617. Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, Santa Fe, 1662, testimonies. Case, 1732, of Miguel de Quintana, Santa Cruz de la Cañada, poet, criticized the padres. Cristobal de Anaya Almazan, heresy, other crimes, 1662, detailed, genealogy. Case of Diego Romero, 1662, expedition to High Plains, danced with Apaches, supposedly slept with an Apache woman. Nicolas de Aguilar, 1662, for propositions, from Pueblo de Yrirapundaro, Michoacán, genealogy. Others - investigations around love potents, herbs, powders, peyote, used by Indians, Spanish, Negros, Mulatos, men and women both, women caused death several men, murder; seeing the ghosts of the dead men. Case in Santa Fe, witchcraft, Juana de la Cruz, 1628. Case in Santa Fe, peyote and bigamy, Juan Anton, mulato, 1632. Case in Santa Fe, Luis de Rivera, from Sevilla, 1630, detailed, pact with devil, potents, witchcraft, genealogy. Case of Bernardo Gruber, Grueber, German, trader, 1669, Las Salinas, witchcraft. Apaches and Gov. Lopez de Mendizabal. Padre Fray Juan de Paz account, war with Apaches, at Jemez Pueblo. Case against Padre Nicolas Hidalgo, Taos Pueblo, 1638, complains of Indians of his mistreatment, wickedness. Sandia Pueblo case against their Padre, 1663. Idolatry case at Acoma Pueblo, Indians worshiping old idols, 1621, rescue and salvation of Acoma. Case of idols at Nambe, 1621. Cases at San Juan Pueblo and Alameda Pueblo, New Mexico mestizos and a Mulato participating in idolatry with Indians, devil, kiva, dances, 1632. Examples of free Mulatos, Negros in the Santa Fe colony, as servants, testimony in Inquisition cases, or cases against them. Case at Pajarito, 1785, interim appointment of Jose Mariano de la Peña, of Hacienda de San Isidro del Pajarito, as notary, with use of the vara de justicia. Case in 1758, Santa Fe, appointment as notary judge with use of the vara of José de Bustamante Tagle. Description of New Mexico, ca. 1807, Indian, Spanish, towns, missions, geography, conditions.
Other - Tabla, 1810-1815, list of congregations, missions, in Latin, includes New Mexico. Council of Trent publication, 1641, Spanish, Latin, instructions to missionaries on founding missions, conversion of Indians, detailed, also related to New Mexico, Quarac. Comet, falling star, Santa Fe, Fall 1664, seen by Gabriel Lopez de Bonilla, astronomy.
People - New Mexico, cases, witnesses, relatives, associates - Nicolas de Aguilar, Teresa de Aguilera y Roche, Ana de Anaya, Cristobal de Anaya Almazan, Francisco de Anaya Almazan , Juana de Alvisu, Beatriz de los Angeles, Juan Anton, Juan de Archuleta, Lucia de Archuleta, Maria de Archuleta, Gaspar de Arratia, Antonio Arteaga, Maria de Avendaño (Abendaño), Nicolas de Avila, Antonio Baca, Antonio Bala, Pancho Balon (Valon), Alonso Barba, Alonso Barela, (See Varela), Maria Barela, Polonia Barela, Marcos Barreda, Diego Bellido, Catalina Bernal (or Vernal), Francisco Bernal, Isabel Bernal, Isabel Borques, Jose de Bustamente Tagle, Ana de Bustillos, Beatriz Bustillos, Catalina Bustillos, Jeronima Bustillos, Juliana de Bustillos, Yumar de Bustillos, Isabel de Cabanillas, Ana Cadimo, Francisco Cadimo, Juan Camacho, Fernando de la Concha, Maria de Canisia, Miguel Carillo, Augustin de Carvajal, Felix de Carvajal, Jeronimo Carvajal, Magdalena de Carvajal, Diego de Castillo, Diego Cisneros, Esteban Clemente, Manuel Corria, Juana de La Cruz, Josefa de la Cruz, Maria de la Cruz y Aleman, Pedro de la Cruz, Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, Tome Dominguez de Mendoza, Juan Donaire de las Misas, Juan Duran, Francisco Duran, Cristobal Duran y Chavez, Fernando Duran y Chavez, Pedro Duran y Chavez, Cristobal Enriquez, Juan Escarramad, Juan de Eulate, Lucas de Figueroa, Cristobal Fonte, Juan Fuscos, Alvaro Garcia (Holgado), Barbara Garcia, Catalina Garcia, Diego Garcia, Francisco Garcia, Juan Garcia Holgado, Juan Garcia de Rivas, Juan Garcia de la Mora Gachupin, Ana Gomez, Andres Gomez, Francisco Gomez Robledo, Juan Gomez, Anita Gonzales de Victoria, Antonio Gonzales, Diego Gonzales, Domingo Gonzales, M aria Gonzales, Ramon Gonzales, Sebastian Gonzales, Bernardo Grueber (Gruber), Juan Griego, Diego de Hernandez, Maria Granillo, Jose Guerrero, Adrian Gutierrez, Alonso de Gutierrez, Juan Gutierrez Bocanegra, Francisca de Herrera Abrigo, Hernando de Hinosos (Hinojos?), Toribio de la Huerta, Andres Hurtado, Jose Jurado, Pedro de Leyba (Leiba), Andres Lopez de Garcia, Andres Lopez Zambrano, Domingo Lopez de Ocanto, Gabriel Lopez de Bonilla, Bernardo Lopez de Mendizabal, Juan Lopez Olgin, Juana Lopez, Lucia Lopez de Garcia, Matias Lopez del Castillo, Pedro Lucero de Godoy, Francisco Lujan, Maria Lujan, Mariana Lujan, Antonio Machado, Francisca de Madrid, Francisco de Madrid, Lorenzo de Madrid, Juan Maese, Pedro Manso de Valdez, Francisco Marquez, Jeronimo Marquez, Juan Marquez, Margarita Marquez, Pedro Marquez, Alonso Martin Barba, Diego Martin (Barba), Diego Martin Naranjo, German Martin, Hernan Martin Serrano, Agustina Martinez, Francisco Martinez de Baeza, Maria Martinez, Blas Miranda, Juan de Miranda, Juan de Mondragon, Bartolome Montoya, Beatriz Montoya, Diego de Montoya, Francisco de Montoya, Josefa Montoya, Juana Montoya, Lucia de Montoya, Pedro de Montoya, Francisco de Mora y Ceballos, Juan Mora, Lucia de Mora, Maria de la Mora, Diego de Moraga, Bernardina Moran, Juan Muñoz Polanco, Jose Narvaez Valverde, Jose Nieto, Miguel de Noriega, Maria Nuñez, Isabel Olguin, Francisco de Ortega, Ana Ortiz, Jeronimo Pacheco, Luis Pacheco, Alvaro de Paredes, Beatriz de Pedroza, Jose Mariano de la Peña, Diego de Peñalosa, Pedro de Peralta, Diego Perez Granillo, Francisco Perez Granillo, Juan Perez, Gaspar Perez, Juan Perramos, Diego de Pindoa, Miguel de Quintana, Alonso Ramirez de Salazar, Damiana Ramirez de Mendoza, Giuseppe Ramos, Agustin de Rios (alias de la Palma, Toribio), Luis de Rivera, Ana Robledo, Maria Robledo, Diego de Robles, Lucia Rodriguez, Juan Rodriguez Bellido, Pedro Rodriguez Cubero, Alonso Romero, Bartolome Romero, Diego Romero (alias Perez), Juan Romero, Maria de Romero, Matias Romero, Luis de Rosas, Ignacio Roybal, Cristobal Ruiz, Antonio de Salas, Bernardina de Salas, Hernando Sambrano, Juana Sanchez, Diego de Santa Cruz, Diego de Santiago, Diego de la Serna, Felipe de Sotelo Osorio, Juande tapia, Diego de Tejeda, Francisco Treviño, Diego de Trujillo, Luis de Ulloa, Francisco de Valencia, Juan Varela de Losada, Maria de la Vega Marquez, Diego de Vera (Perdomo), Maria de Villafuerte, Catalina de Villanueva, Catalina de Zamora, Ines de Zamora, Isabel de Zamora, Maria de Zamora, Petrona (Petronilla) de Zamora, Juan Bautista de Zaragoza.
Place - New Mexico –
Bernalillo, Cerrillos, Chilili, El Paso, Paraje de Fray Cristobal, Junta de los Rios, La Cañada (later Santa Cruz), La Cienega, Jornada del Muerto, Pajarito, Quarai, Rio Abajo, Rio Arriba, Salinas, San Gabriel, Santa Fe. Pueblos: Acoma, Alameda, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Nambe, Pecos, Quarac, Salinas, San Felipe, San Marcos, Sandia, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Senecu, Taos, Zia.
El Paso - Texas - Louisiana - Florida - among the Inquisition cases - El Paso, operations and personnel of the Inquisition office there. Problems with Indian rebellion, 1701. New Mexico Governor Peñalosa had an hacienda in El Paso. Encumbered caravan goods and property of Governor Mendizabal stored at Inquisition shed in El Paso. In El Paso, 1745 cases of Michaela de Contreras, superstition, tricks, deceit, and similar case of Beatriz de Cabera. El Paso case, 1800, of Juana Maria Apodaca or Venegas, La Chalis, as curandura. Case of suspicious house fire and Fray Diego Muñoz, El Paso, 1801. El Paso 1686 case against citizens of Corpus Cristi. Bigamy cases in El Paso area men, Jose Antonio Diaz, 1734; Agustín Miguel de Estrada, lobo o chino; Jose Antonio Miguel in 1736 and Manuel Dominguez, 1780. Case, San Miguel Mission, Adaes, Texas, -1734, Juan Antonio de Covarubias, for bigamy. Other - case of a seditious paper, banned by Inquisition, 1806-20, by Jose Antonio Rosas, letters about it from Pensacola, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Yucatan, detailed. Description of limits, boundary between Louisiana and Texas, ca. 1807.
Examples of New Spain - Inquisition cases - Judaism - suspicion of being a Jew, Judio - three cases in Mexico - Gonzalo Gomez, Mexico City, 1536; Manuel Gomez de Acosta, Portuguese, deceased, Nueva Veracruz, 1635; Manuel de Medina, tailor, Portuguese, Minas de San Diego Nuevo, Cocula, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1667. (Three investigations in New Mexico were Fray Juan Ramirez, 1664; Juan Gomez and four associates, 1661 and Gov. Lopez de Mendizabal and wife, 1663.) Idolatry - Campeche, 1582, Negro slave, idolatry, ate food offered by Indians to gods. Dominican found profane Indian images of Child Jesus, 1621. Oaxaca, Yanhuitlan, Indian governors, caciques, for idolatry, human sacrifice, detailed; 1557. Indian infidel in church, unbaptized person buried in church. Idolatry case in 1706, Zumpango, state of Mexico, Indian cacique, sacrifices, idolatry, 1547. Puebla, Teutalco, cacique, copal, rain gods, idolatry, 1546, detailed. Tabasco, witchcraft, Ana Gomez, wife Benito Bejel, Mexico, 1528. Indian male witches in Tabasco, 1575. Tlalmanalco, state of Mexico, 1573, Padre printing catechism in Nahuatl, changing the vocabulary. Yucatan, Merida, Cristobal de Miranda, commissioner of the Inquisition, limpieza de sangre, genealogy, secret marriages, conflicts with Bishop and others, 1575, Bishop Diego de Landa, cases. Mexico, limpieza de sangre, 1788, as official of the Inquisition, Junto Jose Santos del Valle, genealogy. Zacatecas, Chichimecas, investigations, 1580s. Study from doctors of Puebla, 1702, about surgery on cranium. Other: Tabla, 1810-1815, list of congregations, missions, in Latin, New Spain. Almanac, 1714, from Mexico, for missions, notes on feast days for the Indians, others for the Spanish, saints, church finances, etc.
New Spain – among places – Acapulco, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Durango, Guadalajara, Guatemala, Honduras, Jalisco, Merida, state of Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, Oaxaca, Orizaba, Parral, Puebla, Sonora, Tenochtitlan, Tlaxcala, Valladolid, Veracruz, Yucatan, Yanhuitlan, Zacatecas, Zupango.
Note- there is an Inqusition case in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid, see CSWR, AGI - Mss 841- Ramo AHN, Diego de Uceda, investigated as a Lutheran, 1528-30, Cordova, Spain.
New Mexico – selected cases. Some cases identified by individual name, with detail, and others just lists of cases for various years, giving names of individuals and the charges. Provides view of society, problems, conditions in New Mexico, 1600s-1700s - Spanish, Indians, mestizos, Negros, Mulatos in the colony, etc. Spanish views of Indians; treatment; Indian views of Spanish, testimony against Spanish. Includes a few references to encomiendas, estancias, haciendas, missions, towns, etc. Role of women, giving testimony, involved in witchcraft cases, women and men, possible curandera, links to herbs, books of herbs. Several letters in Portuguese.
Examples – from New Mexico - Judaism, Judio - Jew - Gov. Bernardo López de Mendizábal, and wife Teresa, 1663, suspicion of practicing Judaism, Jew, detailed. Case of Juan and Andres Gomez, sons of Portuguese, Francisco Gomez, suspicion of practicing Judaism, 1661, detailed, genealogy, also investigated were associates, Domingo Lopez Zambrano, Domingo Lopez de Ocanto and Ana Romero, 1663. Case of Fray Juan Ramirez, 1664, serving in New Mexico, accused of practicing Judaism, detailed. Other - Juan de Oñate, at San Gabriel, dealth with cases of women, witchcraft, 1606-1607. Santo Domingo Pueblo, religious had Jumana or Apache girl slave, servant, 1617. Complaints against the Padres, Inquisitors, mistreating Indians and Spanish, sex with women, homosexuals, disrupting the colony. Spanish bringing Indian orphans from Salinas, 1620s. Fray Esteban de Perea, Inquisition, Santa Fe, Perea’s limpieza de sangre, geneology. Governors – padres - church and state conflicts,criticism of the religious and the civil authorities, detailed - Fray Alonso de Benavidez; Fray Alonso de Posada, Padre Juan de Paz, 1664, and other religious over decades. Conclusion of France Scholes that Paz had gone too far in 1664 investigations resulting in tragic consequences for the New Mexico colony, social breakdown. Governors, various, treatment of Indians and settlers, conflicts with church, trading goods, sheep herds. Juan Manso, 1669 problems with the caravans, carros, piñon. Governors and Inquisition problems of Pedro de Peralta, Francisco de Mora de Ceballos, Juan de Eulate, Felipe de Sotelo Osorio, Francisco Martinez de Baeza, Luis de Rosa, and wife, detailed; Fernando de Villanueva, Fernando de la Concha, Pedro de Rodriguez Cubero, and others. Case 1663 of Gov. Diego de Peñalosa, from Lima, Peru, and his wife, for heresy, murder, residencia, detailed; grant of land to Peñalosa, New Mexico, 1671; Peñalosa’s possible encomienda, haciendas in El Paso, and in Santa Fe; and sheep herd at Taos Pueblo, 1662. Gov. Peñalosa took away encomiendas of his opponents - references to encomiendas, Diego Romero (Diego Perez), Francisco Gomez Robledo, Francisco de Anaya Almazan, Hernando Martin Serrano, Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, 1660s. Santa Fe, 1610s-20s conditions, settlers, expenses, shortages. Santa Fe cabildo, city council, and Governors, Padres. Indian service to Spanish, in expedition to High Plains.
Among other New Mexico cases - Diego Romero (Diego Perez), 1674, bigamy. Alonso Romero, from Sevilla, 1695, bigamy. Juan Garcia de la Mora Gachupin, of Santa Fe, 1733; bigamy. Geronimo Marquez, Santa Fe, conflicts with padres, 1617. Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, Santa Fe, 1662, testimonies. Case, 1732, of Miguel de Quintana, Santa Cruz de la Cañada, poet, criticized the padres. Cristobal de Anaya Almazan, heresy, other crimes, 1662, detailed, genealogy. Case of Diego Romero, 1662, expedition to High Plains, danced with Apaches, supposedly slept with an Apache woman. Nicolas de Aguilar, 1662, for propositions, from Pueblo de Yrirapundaro, Michoacán, genealogy. Others - investigations around love potents, herbs, powders, peyote, used by Indians, Spanish, Negros, Mulatos, men and women both, women caused death several men, murder; seeing the ghosts of the dead men. Case in Santa Fe, witchcraft, Juana de la Cruz, 1628. Case in Santa Fe, peyote and bigamy, Juan Anton, mulato, 1632. Case in Santa Fe, Luis de Rivera, from Sevilla, 1630, detailed, pact with devil, potents, witchcraft, genealogy. Case of Bernardo Gruber, Grueber, German, trader, 1669, Las Salinas, witchcraft. Apaches and Gov. Lopez de Mendizabal. Padre Fray Juan de Paz account, war with Apaches, at Jemez Pueblo. Case against Padre Nicolas Hidalgo, Taos Pueblo, 1638, complains of Indians of his mistreatment, wickedness. Sandia Pueblo case against their Padre, 1663. Idolatry case at Acoma Pueblo, Indians worshiping old idols, 1621, rescue and salvation of Acoma. Case of idols at Nambe, 1621. Cases at San Juan Pueblo and Alameda Pueblo, New Mexico mestizos and a Mulato participating in idolatry with Indians, devil, kiva, dances, 1632. Examples of free Mulatos, Negros in the Santa Fe colony, as servants, testimony in Inquisition cases, or cases against them. Case at Pajarito, 1785, interim appointment of Jose Mariano de la Peña, of Hacienda de San Isidro del Pajarito, as notary, with use of the vara de justicia. Case in 1758, Santa Fe, appointment as notary judge with use of the vara of José de Bustamante Tagle. Description of New Mexico, ca. 1807, Indian, Spanish, towns, missions, geography, conditions.
Other - Tabla, 1810-1815, list of congregations, missions, in Latin, includes New Mexico. Council of Trent publication, 1641, Spanish, Latin, instructions to missionaries on founding missions, conversion of Indians, detailed, also related to New Mexico, Quarac. Comet, falling star, Santa Fe, Fall 1664, seen by Gabriel Lopez de Bonilla, astronomy.
People - New Mexico, cases, witnesses, relatives, associates - Nicolas de Aguilar, Teresa de Aguilera y Roche, Ana de Anaya, Cristobal de Anaya Almazan, Francisco de Anaya Almazan , Juana de Alvisu, Beatriz de los Angeles, Juan Anton, Juan de Archuleta, Lucia de Archuleta, Maria de Archuleta, Gaspar de Arratia, Antonio Arteaga, Maria de Avendaño (Abendaño), Nicolas de Avila, Antonio Baca, Antonio Bala, Pancho Balon (Valon), Alonso Barba, Alonso Barela, (See Varela), Maria Barela, Polonia Barela, Marcos Barreda, Diego Bellido, Catalina Bernal (or Vernal), Francisco Bernal, Isabel Bernal, Isabel Borques, Jose de Bustamente Tagle, Ana de Bustillos, Beatriz Bustillos, Catalina Bustillos, Jeronima Bustillos, Juliana de Bustillos, Yumar de Bustillos, Isabel de Cabanillas, Ana Cadimo, Francisco Cadimo, Juan Camacho, Fernando de la Concha, Maria de Canisia, Miguel Carillo, Augustin de Carvajal, Felix de Carvajal, Jeronimo Carvajal, Magdalena de Carvajal, Diego de Castillo, Diego Cisneros, Esteban Clemente, Manuel Corria, Juana de La Cruz, Josefa de la Cruz, Maria de la Cruz y Aleman, Pedro de la Cruz, Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, Tome Dominguez de Mendoza, Juan Donaire de las Misas, Juan Duran, Francisco Duran, Cristobal Duran y Chavez, Fernando Duran y Chavez, Pedro Duran y Chavez, Cristobal Enriquez, Juan Escarramad, Juan de Eulate, Lucas de Figueroa, Cristobal Fonte, Juan Fuscos, Alvaro Garcia (Holgado), Barbara Garcia, Catalina Garcia, Diego Garcia, Francisco Garcia, Juan Garcia Holgado, Juan Garcia de Rivas, Juan Garcia de la Mora Gachupin, Ana Gomez, Andres Gomez, Francisco Gomez Robledo, Juan Gomez, Anita Gonzales de Victoria, Antonio Gonzales, Diego Gonzales, Domingo Gonzales, M aria Gonzales, Ramon Gonzales, Sebastian Gonzales, Bernardo Grueber (Gruber), Juan Griego, Diego de Hernandez, Maria Granillo, Jose Guerrero, Adrian Gutierrez, Alonso de Gutierrez, Juan Gutierrez Bocanegra, Francisca de Herrera Abrigo, Hernando de Hinosos (Hinojos?), Toribio de la Huerta, Andres Hurtado, Jose Jurado, Pedro de Leyba (Leiba), Andres Lopez de Garcia, Andres Lopez Zambrano, Domingo Lopez de Ocanto, Gabriel Lopez de Bonilla, Bernardo Lopez de Mendizabal, Juan Lopez Olgin, Juana Lopez, Lucia Lopez de Garcia, Matias Lopez del Castillo, Pedro Lucero de Godoy, Francisco Lujan, Maria Lujan, Mariana Lujan, Antonio Machado, Francisca de Madrid, Francisco de Madrid, Lorenzo de Madrid, Juan Maese, Pedro Manso de Valdez, Francisco Marquez, Jeronimo Marquez, Juan Marquez, Margarita Marquez, Pedro Marquez, Alonso Martin Barba, Diego Martin (Barba), Diego Martin Naranjo, German Martin, Hernan Martin Serrano, Agustina Martinez, Francisco Martinez de Baeza, Maria Martinez, Blas Miranda, Juan de Miranda, Juan de Mondragon, Bartolome Montoya, Beatriz Montoya, Diego de Montoya, Francisco de Montoya, Josefa Montoya, Juana Montoya, Lucia de Montoya, Pedro de Montoya, Francisco de Mora y Ceballos, Juan Mora, Lucia de Mora, Maria de la Mora, Diego de Moraga, Bernardina Moran, Juan Muñoz Polanco, Jose Narvaez Valverde, Jose Nieto, Miguel de Noriega, Maria Nuñez, Isabel Olguin, Francisco de Ortega, Ana Ortiz, Jeronimo Pacheco, Luis Pacheco, Alvaro de Paredes, Beatriz de Pedroza, Jose Mariano de la Peña, Diego de Peñalosa, Pedro de Peralta, Diego Perez Granillo, Francisco Perez Granillo, Juan Perez, Gaspar Perez, Juan Perramos, Diego de Pindoa, Miguel de Quintana, Alonso Ramirez de Salazar, Damiana Ramirez de Mendoza, Giuseppe Ramos, Agustin de Rios (alias de la Palma, Toribio), Luis de Rivera, Ana Robledo, Maria Robledo, Diego de Robles, Lucia Rodriguez, Juan Rodriguez Bellido, Pedro Rodriguez Cubero, Alonso Romero, Bartolome Romero, Diego Romero (alias Perez), Juan Romero, Maria de Romero, Matias Romero, Luis de Rosas, Ignacio Roybal, Cristobal Ruiz, Antonio de Salas, Bernardina de Salas, Hernando Sambrano, Juana Sanchez, Diego de Santa Cruz, Diego de Santiago, Diego de la Serna, Felipe de Sotelo Osorio, Juande tapia, Diego de Tejeda, Francisco Treviño, Diego de Trujillo, Luis de Ulloa, Francisco de Valencia, Juan Varela de Losada, Maria de la Vega Marquez, Diego de Vera (Perdomo), Maria de Villafuerte, Catalina de Villanueva, Catalina de Zamora, Ines de Zamora, Isabel de Zamora, Maria de Zamora, Petrona (Petronilla) de Zamora, Juan Bautista de Zaragoza.
Place - New Mexico –
Bernalillo, Cerrillos, Chilili, El Paso, Paraje de Fray Cristobal, Junta de los Rios, La Cañada (later Santa Cruz), La Cienega, Jornada del Muerto, Pajarito, Quarai, Rio Abajo, Rio Arriba, Salinas, San Gabriel, Santa Fe. Pueblos: Acoma, Alameda, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Nambe, Pecos, Quarac, Salinas, San Felipe, San Marcos, Sandia, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Senecu, Taos, Zia.
El Paso - Texas - Louisiana - Florida - among the Inquisition cases - El Paso, operations and personnel of the Inquisition office there. Problems with Indian rebellion, 1701. New Mexico Governor Peñalosa had an hacienda in El Paso. Encumbered caravan goods and property of Governor Mendizabal stored at Inquisition shed in El Paso. In El Paso, 1745 cases of Michaela de Contreras, superstition, tricks, deceit, and similar case of Beatriz de Cabera. El Paso case, 1800, of Juana Maria Apodaca or Venegas, La Chalis, as curandura. Case of suspicious house fire and Fray Diego Muñoz, El Paso, 1801. El Paso 1686 case against citizens of Corpus Cristi. Bigamy cases in El Paso area men, Jose Antonio Diaz, 1734; Agustín Miguel de Estrada, lobo o chino; Jose Antonio Miguel in 1736 and Manuel Dominguez, 1780. Case, San Miguel Mission, Adaes, Texas, -1734, Juan Antonio de Covarubias, for bigamy. Other - case of a seditious paper, banned by Inquisition, 1806-20, by Jose Antonio Rosas, letters about it from Pensacola, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Yucatan, detailed. Description of limits, boundary between Louisiana and Texas, ca. 1807.
Dates
- 1606-1820
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English, Spanish, French, Mayan, Latin
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 23 boxes (16.5 cu. ft.), 267 volumes, 322 microfilm reels (masters in cabinets), 322 CDs
General
Detailed Finding Aid (pdf) Reels noted in this detailed finding aid have been transferred to DVDs using same item numbers as reels.
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
cswrref@unm.edu
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
cswrref@unm.edu