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Bodega y Cuadra, Juan de la, 1743-1794. Documents relating to El Puerto de Nutca, 1789-1793.

Title: Documents relating to El Puerto de Nutca, 1789-1793.

"Viaje a la costa N.O. de America Septentrional por ... Bodega y Quadra en las frigatas de su mando, Santa Gertrudis, Aranzazu, Princessa y goleta, Activa ..." (HM 141) and selections from "Nootka Island: a collection ... " (HM 327) Chiefly correspondence between Bodega and the Viceroy, Revilla Gigedo. A few letters from Pedro Alberni and Salvador Fidalgo, copies of letters from Bodega to Captain Vancouver and an Indian vocabulary included.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 401:5) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27007306 View

Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Autograph Collection 32797049., 1568-1891

Title: Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Autograph Collection 1568-1891

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Romance language collection, 1678-1923.

Title: Romance language collection, 1678-1923.

Letters, civil documents, and literary manuscripts in Spanish, Catalan, Corsican, Italian, and Latin. Also includes two tranlations from Spanish to English.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

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New Spain. Viceroy (1746-1755 : Revilla Gigedo). Letter and report, 1747-1753.

Title: Letter and report, 1747-1753.

The letter and dictum, dated 1753, to Padre Juan Antonio Balthasar discusses 22 missions which are being transferred from the Society of Jesus to the Durango diocese and recommends the establishment of new missions in the Colorado and Gila areas (WA MSS S-611;N4221). The report, entitled "Autos en virtud de un Sperior Despach...," consists of documents relating to an expedition to reconnoiter the borders of the Rio Grande, the re-establishment of missions, and the establishment of a presidio at Junta de los Rios (WA MSS S-612;N4221).

ArchivalResource: 2 items (76 p.); 31 cm.

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Revilla Gigedo, Juan Francisco Güemes y Horcasitas, conde de, 1682?-1766. Documents concerning the administration and defense of Sonora and Sinaloa : Mexico : DS, 1749.

Title: Documents concerning the administration and defense of Sonora and Sinaloa : Mexico : DS, 1749.

Folder 1. A report of the first Viceroy Revilla Gigedo from the Auditor General for War, Juan Rodríguez de Albuerne, Marqués de Altamira, mainly concerning proposed measures for the pacification of the Seris, Guaymis, Upanguaymis, Pimas Bajos, Tiburones, and other Indians of the region. Deals also with financial problems, recognition of services by various leaders, plans for exploring Baja California, and appointment of an ad interim governor for Sinaloa and Sonora. Dated March 17-21, 1749. Appended is a document appointing Diego Ortiz Parrilla to serve as governor ad interim, March 21, 1749. 20 p. Folder 2. An order from Viceroy Revilla Gigedo instructing the Royal Accounting Tribunal and Audiencia to transmit 15,000 pesos to the ad interim governor for completion of the Pitic and other projects. With appended statement recording execution of the order. Both dated March 26, 1749. 12 p. Folder 3. Acceptance of Diego Ortiz Parrilla of his appointment, with certifications regarding relevant formalities and financial transactions. March-July, 1749. 2 p.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 3 folders ; 31 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (21 exposures) : negative (Rich. 416:20) and positive.

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Montiano, Manuel de. Manuel de Montiano letters, 1737-1741.

Title: Manuel de Montiano letters, 1737-1741.

This collection consists of a volume containing the letters of Don Manuel de Montiano to Juan de Guemes y Horcasitas, Governor General of Cuba. They present the Spanish side of the Siege of St. Augustine in 1740. In Spanish, these letters were copied from the originals and certified as true copies by Antonio Alvarez, keeper of the Public Archives in St. Augustine, Florida, before 1843.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.10 cubic feet)

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Elogio de Francisco Güemes de Horcasitas, Conde de Revillagigedo, Virrey de México [Manuscrito].

Title: Elogio de Francisco Güemes de Horcasitas, Conde de Revillagigedo, Virrey de México [Manuscrito]. S.XVIII.

ArchivalResource: 7 h. 21 x 15 cm.

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Revilla Gigedo, Juan Francisco Güemes y Horcasitas, conde de, 1682?-1766. Documents relating to the defense of Nueva Vizcaya against the Sumas, Apaches, and Allied Indians : Mexico : DS, 1754-1760.

Title: Documents relating to the defense of Nueva Vizcaya against the Sumas, Apaches, and Allied Indians : Mexico : DS, 1754-1760.

Folder 1 is a file on plans for the defense of the northern frontier, 1754-1755, including decrees of Viceroy Revilla Gigedo the Elder and Governor Mateo Antonio de Mendoza, and related documents concerning defense projects. 186 p. Folder 2 consists of proposals for frontier defense, 1755-1757, with reference particularly to the Valle de San Buenaventura. Includes reports from Governor Mendoza, the Marqués de Aranda, and others. 82 p. Folder 3 contains papers on a dispute between Governor Mendoza and Bernardo Antonio de Bustamante y Tagle, captain of the mobile unit based at Huejuquilla for the protection of Chihuahua and central Nueva Vizcaya. Includes petitions, letters, decrees, official opinions, annotations, certifications, and related materials, 1756-1761. 102 p. Folder 4 has portions of a report prepared on behalf of the Captaincy General of Nueva Vizcaya in connection with a war council assembled to discuss establishment of new frontier presidios and other defense measures [1757?] 44 p. Folder 5 is a certified copy of a file, 1759-1760, on charges brought against Captain Rubín de Celís for inefficiency, peculation, maltreatment of the Indians, and failure to execute orders. Contains depositions of witnesses, orders of Governor Mendoza, commissions, instructions, and related documents. 270 p. Folder 6 is a report, apparently addressed to the Viceroy by Governor Mendoza at the close of 1759 or the beginning of 1760, dealing with the deficiencies of Mendoza's three presidio captains, Rubín de Celís, on the Conchos, Santiago Ruiz at Janos, and Bustamante y Tagle at Huejuquilla, and measures for their replacement. 22 p.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 6 folders ; 21-31 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (375 exposures) : negative (Rich. 418:16) and positive.

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Montemayor y Córdova de Cuenca, Juan Francisco de, 1620-1685. Viceregal legal compendium : Mexico : ms., 1528-1773 (bulk 1677-1773).

Title: Viceregal legal compendium : Mexico : ms., 1528-1773 (bulk 1677-1773).

Volume of copies of legal documents regarding the government of New Spain from the early 16th century to the late 18th century. Includes two early compilations of the decrees of the Real Audiencia of Mexico City by Juan Francisco Montemayor, one of the major figures in colonial Mexican legal history. Most of the volume concerns legislation intended to improve the situation of royal finances through taxation reform, and also records several decrees regarding the Catholic Church. In addition, it provides a detailed record of the Habsburg and Bourbon legislation regarding New Spain.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

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Discalced Carmelites. Documents pertaining to the Discalced Carmelites in Spain and Latin America, 1638 Oct. 13-1796 Sept. 26.

Title: Documents pertaining to the Discalced Carmelites in Spain and Latin America, 1638 Oct. 13-1796 Sept. 26.

Petitions, letters, receipts, powers of attorney, financial accounts, and printed licenses from 1638-1796, pertaining to the business and religious affairs of the Discalced Carmelites in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador.

ArchivalResource: ca. 170 items (1 v.) ; 32 cm. or smaller.

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Arce y Echeagaray, José Mariano de. Instruccion sobre alcavalas : Mexico City, [1794-1851].

Title: Instruccion sobre alcavalas : Mexico City, [1794-1851].

Collection of documents (copies) relating to excise and pulque taxes in New Spain; consists of correspondence of the tax official, Arce, with Viceroy Revilla Gigedo and Customs Director Juan Navarra, April 4-5, 1794; text of instructions for assessing and collecting these taxes, in 154 articles, with index; and various pertinent laws and orders.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 185 p. 31 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (96 exposures) : negative (Rich. 99:13) and positive.

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New Spain. Real Audiencia (Guadalajara). Mexican Records Collection, 1586-1857.

Title: Mexican Records Collection, 1586-1857.

The chronologically-arranged documents demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, ecclesiastical, military, and genealogical records initiated by government representatives, lawyers, litigants, clerics, and laypersons from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the records are legal and contractual, including wills, testimonies, inheritance cases, power of attorney contracts, and financial agreements between individuals and/or institutions. Administrative and ecclesiastical records mostly include appoiintments to secular and religious offices as well as some Inquisition and genealogical documents. Military records document pensions, compensations, and other payments made by the Royal Treasury to former military officers. Prominent persons and places of colonial and national Mexico and Guatemala are represented in the collection, such as Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, first count of Revillagigedo and viceroy of New Spain from 1746-1755; Juan Nazario Peimbert, lawyer who proposed the formation of an Indian army in the event of a French invasion in 1809; and Juan Antonio de Vizarrón, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain from 1734-1740.

ArchivalResource: 92 items.5 boxes.

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Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879. Manuscritos Mexicanos, 1715-1842.

Title: Manuscritos Mexicanos, 1715-1842.

Transcripts, made chiefly in 1850 from archives in Mexico, of various documents relating to California, Texas, Louisiana, Canada, and Mexico, largely in the handwriting of Robert Greenhow, although a portion is in that of his wife, Rose. Contains table of contents. Documents 1-8 relate to the Provincias Internas, 1786-1812, including letters from the Spanish Court to Viceroys of New Spain; instructions from José de Gálvez to Ugarte y Loyola; and correspondence referring to relations with the United States. Nos. 9 and 10 give a resume of the history of New Spain from the time of Cortés to 1821, with a list of viceroys and governors. Nos. 11, 14-18a, and 22 relate to the missions of New Spain, 1716-1842. They consist of reports drawn up by Revilla Gigedo the Younger and Father Palóu and Mangino, orders for division of the California mission field between Franciscans and Dominicans, and Domingo Ramón's account of his 1716 expedition to Texas for the encouragement of missions. Nos. 12, 12a, and 13 deal with exploration of the northwest coast of America, i.e., accounts of the 1774 Pérez voyage and of the 1775 Hezeta-Bodega-Ayala expedition (first portion), with Bodega's account of the 1779 Arteaga-Bodega expedition-from which the final paragraphs are omitted. Nos. 19-21 and 23-30 bear upon Hispano-Franco-Anglo-American disputes in the New World, and the disputed territories, 1689-1824, i.e.: diaries of Domingo Ramón and Juan Antonio de la Peña on the 1716 and 1720-1722 expeditions to Texas; diary on Alonso de León's 1689 expedition to Espíritu Santo Bay; excerpts from de La Harpe's diary on journeys of St. Denis, with related documents; letters from Athanase de Mézières and Ripperdá to Teodoro de Croix, and from Claiborne to Secretary of State Madison; and miscellaneous reports and summaries involving conflicting colonial claims.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 30 numbered items ; 36 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (391 exposures) : negative (Rich. 393:19) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215206351 View

New Spain. Viceroy. Instrucciones reservadas que traxeron de España algunos señores Vireyes /signed by Antonio Bonilla, Secretary of the Viceroyship, 1754-1789.

Title: Instrucciones reservadas que traxeron de España algunos señores Vireyes /signed by Antonio Bonilla, Secretary of the Viceroyship, 1754-1789.

A collection of instructions issued by King Ferdinand VI to his viceroy, Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, Conde de Revilla-Gigedo in Nueva España, together with additional instructions by later viceroys to their successors for administering religious and civil affairs in New Spain.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (644 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702129223 View

Codallos y Rabal, Joaquín. Joaquín Codallos y Rabal papers, 1744-1748.

Title: Joaquín Codallos y Rabal papers, 1744-1748.

Includes an inquiry into Navajo life. Contains: orders from Conde de Fuen Clara, Viceroy of Mexico, reducing force of Santa Fé fort; a resumé of Navajo life; letter from Conde de Revilla Gigedo, Viceroy of Mexico, acknowledging receipt of report of Comanche attacks; and a petition from Fray Juan Miguel Menchero regarding naming Apache as chieftain.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 1 portfolio.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 110:5) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214994967 View