Civil - Volumes, 1537–1795
File — Vols: 18-20
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Civil cases and investigations, executive and criminal, before the Audiencia Real de Mexico. Encomiendas, tribute, pensions, residencies, licenses, taxes, diezmos, media anata, cacicazgos and mayorazgos, inheritance; includes Spanish and Indian women. Cases about cattle, obrajes, mines, mills, accounting visitas, contraband, and foreigners. George Vancouver on Northwest Coast. Missionaries, New Mexico, Texas, funds, costs, patronato, schools. Trip of Bishop of Durango to New Mexico. Residencias New Mexico governors. Complaints New Mexico presidio soldiers against Felix Martinez. Indian opposition to appointment of Jose Naranjo as Captain. Bridge on Rio Grande at El Paso. Jemez Indian complaints Spanish cattle ruining their crops, lands. Indian tribute too high, personal service to Spanish, defense of Indian rights by Protector de Indios. Translations of Maya documents for Indian use in legal cases. Defense, Apache raiders, Comanches and mission efforts.
Among the themes are - Tenochtitlan, 1537, conclusion of residencia of Nuño de Guzman, defense of Treasurer Alonso de Estrada, testimony, questions, witnesses. Veracruz, 1552, suit of Indians of Tlaquilpan against their encomendersos, tribute too high. Oaxaca, 1582, dispute between two Indians, one a cacique and governor, over governing the pueblo of Cuyotepexi la Mextica, cacicazgo, Indian succession, inheritance, genealogy, detailed. Yucatan, 1673-1732, Merida, dispute over the encomienda of Tecoh, involving Teodora de Ochaeta y Ulibarri, Alonso de Ulibarri, Jesuit Colegio Maximo de San Pedro and San Pablo, Baltazar y Sebastian Guerrero, detailed. Merida, Yucatan, Campeche, 1766, investigation of the Cajas Reales, Visitador Don Joseph de Galvez for the King, 46 questions and replies from officials, tribunal, detailed. Yucatán, Tabasco, 1786-89, royal orders to incorporate the encomiendas of Indios to the crown, resistance of Spanish encomenderos, reports, lists of pueblos, tribute paid, diezmos, costs, profits, products of the encomiedas, detailed. Querétaro, 1712-1748, dispute over operation of an obraje in the city of Jergas, licences, report, complaints, conditions, testimony, detailed. Campeche, Pueblo de Calkini, 1756, encomienda, dispute over benefits, Alferez Mayor Diego Garcia Rejon y Peres (Perez), detailed. Campeche, Laguna de Terminos, Isla del Carmen, 1765-67, case against Ignacio Valdes, contraband, illegal trade, whiskey, jewels, goods, testimony of his wife and his slave, and others. Map, 1758, obrajes of New Spain, owners, table of data, weavers, looms, Mexico, Queretaro, San Miguel el Grande, Salvatierra, Valladolid, Puebla, Cholula, Tlaxcala; expenses of the experimental use of blue with alumbre salt. New Spain, diezmos, tithes, 1793-94, changes, lists by Juan Antonio Carrara of products tithed, for Spanish, Indians and both. Nayarit, Nuevo Toledo, 1725, reports on campaigns of Governor Juan Flores de San Pedro to northern frontier, crimes committed, detailed
Provincias Internas, 1748- 1790s, reports by Bishop of Durango and Hugo O’Conor, on bad conditions in the Provincias, military and missions, particularly Nueva Vizcaya (detailed) and some on New Mexico; attacks and cruelty of the Apache Indians, their destruction of haciendas, mines; official orders for military methods, offensive and defensive, against the Indians; situation of the presidios, troops; visit of the Bishop of Durango to New Mexico, division of dioceses in Durango; Nueva Vizcaya constitution, 1790. 1801, Establecimiento de una feria en pueblo San Juan del Río [de la Nueva Vizcaya] a solicitud del presbítero Vicente Antonio del Fierro, para intensificar el comercio con las provincias del norte: Nuevo México, Durango, Sonora, Coahuila, Texas, Nuevo León, y Chihuahua. Trade New Mexico with other provinces. New Spain – Places - Campeche, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Coyoacan, Cozumel, Durango, Isla del Carmen, Izucar, Laguna de Terminos, Merida, Nayarit, Nueva Galicia, Nueva Filipinas, Nueva Vizcaya, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tabasco, Tacuba, Tasco, Tenochtitlan, Tepic, Texcoco, Tlapa, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Valladolid, Yucatan, Zumpango
New Mexico - among the topics are - Juan de Oñate, 1595, title of governor of New Mexico and for surrounding areas, provisions. New Mexico, 1622, letters of the missionaries, activities in the padres, events. New Mexico, 1636, questions on cattle herds of Governor Francisco de la Mora y Ceballos. Places - Chilili, Galisteo, Nambe, Pecos, San Cristobal, Santa Fe.
Among the themes are - Tenochtitlan, 1537, conclusion of residencia of Nuño de Guzman, defense of Treasurer Alonso de Estrada, testimony, questions, witnesses. Veracruz, 1552, suit of Indians of Tlaquilpan against their encomendersos, tribute too high. Oaxaca, 1582, dispute between two Indians, one a cacique and governor, over governing the pueblo of Cuyotepexi la Mextica, cacicazgo, Indian succession, inheritance, genealogy, detailed. Yucatan, 1673-1732, Merida, dispute over the encomienda of Tecoh, involving Teodora de Ochaeta y Ulibarri, Alonso de Ulibarri, Jesuit Colegio Maximo de San Pedro and San Pablo, Baltazar y Sebastian Guerrero, detailed. Merida, Yucatan, Campeche, 1766, investigation of the Cajas Reales, Visitador Don Joseph de Galvez for the King, 46 questions and replies from officials, tribunal, detailed. Yucatán, Tabasco, 1786-89, royal orders to incorporate the encomiendas of Indios to the crown, resistance of Spanish encomenderos, reports, lists of pueblos, tribute paid, diezmos, costs, profits, products of the encomiedas, detailed. Querétaro, 1712-1748, dispute over operation of an obraje in the city of Jergas, licences, report, complaints, conditions, testimony, detailed. Campeche, Pueblo de Calkini, 1756, encomienda, dispute over benefits, Alferez Mayor Diego Garcia Rejon y Peres (Perez), detailed. Campeche, Laguna de Terminos, Isla del Carmen, 1765-67, case against Ignacio Valdes, contraband, illegal trade, whiskey, jewels, goods, testimony of his wife and his slave, and others. Map, 1758, obrajes of New Spain, owners, table of data, weavers, looms, Mexico, Queretaro, San Miguel el Grande, Salvatierra, Valladolid, Puebla, Cholula, Tlaxcala; expenses of the experimental use of blue with alumbre salt. New Spain, diezmos, tithes, 1793-94, changes, lists by Juan Antonio Carrara of products tithed, for Spanish, Indians and both. Nayarit, Nuevo Toledo, 1725, reports on campaigns of Governor Juan Flores de San Pedro to northern frontier, crimes committed, detailed
Provincias Internas, 1748- 1790s, reports by Bishop of Durango and Hugo O’Conor, on bad conditions in the Provincias, military and missions, particularly Nueva Vizcaya (detailed) and some on New Mexico; attacks and cruelty of the Apache Indians, their destruction of haciendas, mines; official orders for military methods, offensive and defensive, against the Indians; situation of the presidios, troops; visit of the Bishop of Durango to New Mexico, division of dioceses in Durango; Nueva Vizcaya constitution, 1790. 1801, Establecimiento de una feria en pueblo San Juan del Río [de la Nueva Vizcaya] a solicitud del presbítero Vicente Antonio del Fierro, para intensificar el comercio con las provincias del norte: Nuevo México, Durango, Sonora, Coahuila, Texas, Nuevo León, y Chihuahua. Trade New Mexico with other provinces. New Spain – Places - Campeche, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Coyoacan, Cozumel, Durango, Isla del Carmen, Izucar, Laguna de Terminos, Merida, Nayarit, Nueva Galicia, Nueva Filipinas, Nueva Vizcaya, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tabasco, Tacuba, Tasco, Tenochtitlan, Tepic, Texcoco, Tlapa, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Valladolid, Yucatan, Zumpango
New Mexico - among the topics are - Juan de Oñate, 1595, title of governor of New Mexico and for surrounding areas, provisions. New Mexico, 1622, letters of the missionaries, activities in the padres, events. New Mexico, 1636, questions on cattle herds of Governor Francisco de la Mora y Ceballos. Places - Chilili, Galisteo, Nambe, Pecos, San Cristobal, Santa Fe.
Dates
- 1537–1795
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
(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