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Caja del Rio Grant Testimony

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-51-BC
Abstract This collection contains testimony from the U.S. Court of Private Land Claims regarding the legitimacy of the Caja del Rio grant involving a legal dispute between the descendants of Nicolas Ortiz, Niño Ladrón de Guebara (the original grantee) and Willi Spiegelberg. It also includes legal documents confirming genealogy of the Ortiz family and records of sales of this land in 1860 from the Ortiz family through various owners, to Thomas B. Catron in 1909.
Dates: 1887-1914 (bulk 1904-1914)

L. Bradford Prince Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-109-BC
Scope and Content This collection consists of Spanish language documents from 18th and 19th century New Mexico, 1800s circulars from New Mexico printing presses and the personal papers of Le Baron Bradford Prince. Personal papers include family, business, and political correspondence, invitations to the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition and to a dinner/dance given by the Society of Mayflower Descendants, as well as a circular for the lecture series, "Romance of the South West" given by...
Dates: 1772-1922

Mauro Montoya Collection

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Identifier: AC 152
Scope and Content Mauro Montoya Collection documents significant episodes of New Mexico history during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The documents are divided into the four main periods: Spanish period, The Mexican period, U.S. Territorial period (incl. U.S. military occupation), New Mexico Statehood period.
Dates: 1709-1949

Thomas B. Catron Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-29-BC
Scope and Content The collection contains personal, business, political and legal papers of Thomas B. Catron, 1723-1930. Included is correspondence, legal documents, case records, maps, deeds, campaign literature, newspaper clippings, ledgers, reports and printed material. The collection contains records of 282 cases of the U. S. Court of Private Land Claims, Santa Fe District, 1891-1903, with considerable material on the Anton Chico Grant, Tierra Amarilla Grant, Maxwell Land Grant, and La Bajada Grant. The...
Dates: 1692-1934

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UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections 3
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La Majada Land Grant (N.M.) 2
Land grants -- New Mexico 2
New Mexico -- History -- To 1848 2
Anton Chico Land Grant (N.M.) 1
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Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921 2
American Valley Company 1
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914 1
Bent, Charles, 1799-1847 1
Bent, William, 1809-1869 1