Boxes 13,17

Scope and Contents From the Series: Inheritance; rights of women, genealogy, property and inventory of estate. Issues related to estates of several people including Hernán Cortés, Juan de Oñate and Diego de Vargas. Vargas. New Mexico, Juan de Oñate estate, family coat of arms, genealogy; Vargas family estate, genealogy, belongings, including property of the presidio of Santa Fe. Santa Fe, New Mexico - criminal case for refusing to give his account to the royal treasury. Montezuma family, heirs. Rights and claims of caciques and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Documents for Yucatan from State archive of Yucatán, the Merida town council, the Archive of the Archdiocese of Merida, the Museum of Archaeology and History, and a private collection. Spanish and Mayan. Colonial land title documents for various lands and haciendas in the Yucatan, copies of royal cedulas and orders concerning Indians, censuses of the pueblos, agreements of the Mérida town council, property titles.