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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, Ni?o Ladr?n 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)

Felipe Chavez Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: 1960-009
Scope and Content Collection consists primarily of correspondence, but also includes contracts, account documents, power-of-attorney claims, and other materials. Series I consists primarily of letters to Chavez from various family members and friends. Includes a funeral corrido (ballad), a letter requesting smallpox vaccinations, and a letter from Archbishop Lamy refusing to establish a new religious order in New Mexico. Series II consists of letters to Chavez from business associates, including Miguel A. Otero...
Dates: 1810-1913

Mariano Chavez Family Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: 1960-010
Scope and Content Collection consists of photocopies of documents involving members of the Mariano Chavez family and others. Most of the materials concern land grants, wills and estates, land conveyances, and litigation over land and water disputes in New Mexico during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Other materials include inventories of personal property, a license to build a chapel at San Jose de Chama (1844), a geneaology of the Chavez family, a collection of alabados (religious verses), and...
Dates: 1763-1967 (bulk 1763-1873)

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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New Mexico State Records Center and Archives 2
UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections 2
 
Subject
Land grants -- New Mexico 3
Family papers 2
La Majada Land Grant (N.M.) 2
Alabados 1
Anton Chico Land Grant (N.M.) 1
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English 2
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Names
Prince, L. Bradford (Le Baron Bradford), 1840-1922 2
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914 1
Catron & Catron 1
Catron, C. C. 1
Catron, Julia A., 1857-1909 1