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Baca Family Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1963-002
Scope and Content
Collection consists of a broad range of materials relating to the Baca family of La Cienega, New Mexico. Series I consists of promissory notes, letters, contracts, and a land conveyance. Series II consists of promissory notes, letters, receipts, partido contracts (livestock contracts and chattel mortgages) and other documents involving either Ygnacio Baca or his son Juan Baca. Includes an 1846 inventory of Ygnacio Baca's estate. Series III consists primarily of documents involving Leonidas...
Dates:
1805-1915
Cordova, New Mexico Family Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-012
Scope and Content
Collection consists of papers from the Cordova family and other families from the Cordova, New Mexico area. Included are documents pertaining to the Truchas Land Grant and its grantees (1829), water rights in Pueblo Quemado (1834), the settlement of a partido contract from the estate of Jose Miguel Archuleta (1883), and hijuelas (estate inventories) for Pedro Fresquez (1856), Maria Quirina Vigil (1889), and Jose Pablo Pacheco (1906).
Collection is in Spanish.
Dates:
1774-1912
Epifanio Vigil Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-224
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the personal and political papers of Epifanio Vigil. Political papers contain several broadsides and clippings from various New Mexico periodicals. Broadsides include Donaciano Madrid's opposition to the election of Francisco Chavez as Sheriff of Santa Fe County, New Mexico (1891) and opposition to Oterista and Catronista republicans (1900). A translation of an article implicating Thomas B. Catron in the American Valley murder is also included along with Francisco A....
Dates:
1865-1900
Maria G. Duran Collection,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-016
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of documents concerning the area of Abiquiu, New Mexico. Among the documents are wills, hijuelas (estate records) and conveyances involving estates and property; and government circulars regarding trade with the Indians, raising militias, and war with the United States. Specific items include several 1846 documents pertaining to the Mexican War such as Governor Manuel Armijo's warning of impending war, and printed orders of U.S. General Stephen Watts Kearny...
Dates:
1785-1846 (bulk 1843-1846)
Martinez Family Papers (Photocopies),
Collection
Identifier: 1973-007
Scope and Content
Collection consists of photocopies of land conveyances, wills, and certain other legal instruments documenting the presence of the Martinez family in and around Santa Cruz de la Canada, New Mexico, in the nineteenth century. Includes material on water rights near Santa Cruz, and a bond for the mayordomo de acequia, 1906. Many of the documents involve members of the Roybal and Mestas families.
Collection is in Spanish.
Dates:
1790-1908 (bulk,1842-1908)
Ortiz Family Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-031
Scope and Content
Collection consists of papers (originals and photocopies) from various members of the Ortiz family. Includes documents pertaining to: the estates of Antonio Jose Ortiz, Rosa Bustamante, Antonio de Jesus Ortiz, Juan Antonio Ortiz, and Maria de Loreta de Rivera (1792-1822); land conveyances in Santa Fe and Rancho del Pino (1726-1787); receipts and records of the Ortiz family (1791-1833); and Jose Ygnacio Ortizs official records as Alcalde Primero from January to November, 1830. The collection...
Dates:
1726-1841
Spanish Archives of New Mexico I,
Collection
Identifier: 1972-002
Scope and Content
Collection consists of civil land records of the Spanish and Mexican period governments of New Mexico, and materials created by the Surveyor General and Court of Private Land Claims during the process of adjudication. Includes petitions for land grants, land conveyances, wills, mine registers, records books, journals, dockets, reports, minutes, letters, and a variety of legal documents. Also within the collection is the Vigil Index, an inventory of the documents in the custody of Donaciano...
Dates:
1685-1912
Ward Alan Minge Collection of Historical Documents,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-029
Scope and Content
Collection consists of a broad range of historical documents concerning New Mexico history. Series I consists of three documents involving Father Antonio Jose Martinez of Taos, New Mexico: the 1827 will of his father Antonio Severino Martinez; a brief autobiography of Antonio Jose Martinez published in 1838; and an 1859 proclamation by Antonio Jose Martinez documenting conflicts between himself and Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy. Series II consists of papers of the Gonzales family of Taos,...
Dates:
1697-1954
Yrisarri Family Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1985-092
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of land grant and land conveyance documents (Seriesi I and II) from the Albuquerque-Bernalillo area and surrounding communities in New Mexico (1697-1929). Included are deeds and records concerning the Alameda and Joseph Telles Jiron land grants, homestead lands, and the San Mateo Ranch. Series III (persons) includes the estate papers, estate inventories, and wills of various members of the related Perea family. Miscellaneous documents include Jacobo Yrisarri's...
Dates:
1697-1951