Merchants New Mexico

Scope and Contents Includes letters and notes to Demetrio Chavez. Some in Spanish and others in English. Felipe Duran, farm labor and early settler,(Mar 16, 188) Max Becker, J.C. Carboner and John Lemon ( Jan 7, 1890) Promise to pay Demetrio Chavez from Anthony Cowan (farmer)(Feb 19, 1890) and Joe Cowan (miner). J.M. Dawson (freighter) (Mar 9, 1893; Mar 9, 1893; Mar 17, 1893), List of names and amounts from the office of Hoarce Stephenson,(1894),Frank Oliver (Oct 1, 1894) Blas Duran (farmer)Aug 25, 1888,Catarino...

Scope and Content Collection consists of a broad range of materials from members of these three inter-related familes from the area of Taos, New Mexico. Most of the collection is made up of land conveyances, wills, business documents, and correspondence. Includes a photocopy of Teresita Bent's handwritten account of her father Governor Charles Bent's assassination in 1847; land conveyances involving Maria Ygnacia Jaramillo; personal papers of Cornelio Vigil; a speech by L. Bradford Prince; business and personal...