Records [microform]. 1500-1812.

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Records [microform]. 1500-1812.

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Microfilm of records in the correspondencia de los Virreyes, the Historias, and the Provincias Internas series of the National Archives of Mexico. These are mainly administrative records, correspondence, reports, etc. of the Viceroy in New Spain and various provincial governors including those governing Louisiana and Texas.

268 reels.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Edith Garland Dupre Library

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The Provincias Internas were formally established by the Real Orden of August 22, 1776, to provide effective government of the northern region of New Spain. They included the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Coahuila, Texas, Nuevo México, Sinaloa, Sonora, Nuevo León, Nuevo Santander, and the Californias. These provinces were removed from the control of the viceroy and placed under the military and political government of a comandante general who was directly responsible to the king. In...