Collection of documents from the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico, 1524-1884 [microform].

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Collection of documents from the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico, 1524-1884 [microform].

Microfilm of holdings of the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico. The following complete ramos are included: Bandos (1571-1819); Correspondencia de virreyes (1755-1821); Historia (1529-1856); Justicia y asuntos eclesiásticos, sección eclesiástica (1821-1861); Justicia y asuntos eclesiásticos, sección instrucción pública (1821-1865); Misiones (1623-1884); Padrones (1594-1865); and Provincias Internas (1617-1842). Partial ramos include: Bienes Nacionales (1810-1834); Operaciones de Guerra (1796-1826); Tierras, siglos XVI-XIX (1684-1810); and Hacienda (1857). Also included are indexes to the following ramos not held by the Benson Latin American Collection: Clero Regular y Secular; Consulado; Cuentas de Jesuitas; Hospitales, Protomedicato, Epidemias; Industria y Comercio; Infidencia; Inquisición, siglos XVI-XIX; Marina; Minería; Obispos y Arzobispos; Templos y Conventos; and Temporalidades. Additional reels contain documents relating to figures prominent in the history and culture of Mexico.

962 reels.

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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...