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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,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Court cases, lawsuits, residencias, encomiendas, treatment of Indians, inheritances. The Escribanía de Cámara or Office of the Court Notary was part of the Consejo de los Indies of Council of the Indies, the highest appellate court in Spanish America. Residencia of Gervacio Cruzat y Gongora, Governor of New Mexico; Conflicts of the Bishop of Durango with the Franciscan missionaries of New Mexico; Case over encomiendas of Isabel Montezuma, daughter of the Emperor, wife of Cortes;...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Ministry of State: Padre Alonso Posada’s report on New Mexico, 1686

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,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Miscellaneous documents, many regions represented. Carribean, New Spain, Northern Provinces: Consejo de Indias, Audiencias, beginnings of Spanish administration in the Caribbean Islands, exploration, settlement, administration, cedulas, Santo Domingo, Española, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, permits to settle the islands, instruction on good treatment of Caribs, encomiendas, Indian relations, defense of the rights of the Indians, enslavement of the Caribs, missions to the Caribs,...