The AGN collection at CSWR contains 267 volumes, 326 reels of microfilm and 17 boxes of documents. The documents are in handwritten Spanish paleographic script, with a few written in Mayan, Latin, Italian, and French. They are in photostat, photocopy, or microfilm formats. There are typed Spanish transcriptions and notes for some of the documents. Briefly, Bloom and Scholes' purpose for the collection was to provide a chronological history of the "lost" early decades of New Mexico from exploration and founding through the Pueblo Revolt to the Reconquest and resettlement. They also collected a few interesting documents about areas adjacent and linked historically to New Mexico such as Texas, Lousiana, Florida and California. Scholes also added significant documents to the collection on the history of conquest and post-conquest eras of central and western Mexico, Cortes and Yucatan. He also included some material about the Caribbean, Central America, the Viceroyalty of Peru and the Philippines showing the origins of early colonial policies and their impact on events in the later development of New Spain. Given here briefly are selected examples of the topics in the documents of this collection by region: New Mexico - Settlement, missions, encomiendas, Camino Real, role of El Paso and Mexican provinces aid to New Mexico. Spanish relations with the Pueblo Indians, Hopi, Apaches, Navajos, Jumanos, Comanches, Utes, Chichimecas. Indian views, rights, Indians paid wages for work. Indian peace efforts, Indian allies to Spanish. Missions to Hopi, Navajos, Apaches, Comanches. Inquisition cases - Spanish, Indians, Mulatos, Mestizos, officials. Pueblo Revolt 1680, Pueblos kill Indians not take part, Indian allies of Spanish, new Indian policies, resettlement. French trade, Villasur. Santa Fe cabildo, presidio, founding of new towns. Trade to Great Plains, St. Louis, Texas, weavers, mining, foreigners. Local elections, lawsuits, 1837 Revolt, Texas Santa Fe Expedition 1841, Mexican War, American filibusters, Gadsden Purchase. Northern and Western Mexican provinces - Provincias Internas - Nueva Galicia, Nueva Vizcaya, Sonora, Michoacan, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca - same issues as New Spain - Mexico - Indian uprisings, towns, presidios, Spanish relations with Apaches, Pimas, Sumas, Mansos, Tarahumara, Chichimecas, and settled Indians. Indian rights, activities. Indians given land for settlements. Relocation of Indians from United States into Spanish territory. Viceroyalty of New Spain, Mexico - Yucatan - Encomiendas, China products, Blacks - Negros slave trade. Hernan Cortes, Marquesado. Missions, Christianity, Inquisition, Jesuits. Mesta, regulations, life of Spanish, Indians, Negros - Blacks, Mulatos, Chinese, Mestizos, Mestizaje. Women. Sanitation, obrajes, prisons, Indian vagabonds. Mistreatment of Indians by Spanish and also by own caciques and other Indians. Indian slavery, freedom. Indians write to King, defend selves, paid for their work, buy, sell, rent their lands, sell products, etc. Rights of Indian caciques, cacicas, equal to vassals of Castilla, lands, tributes, servants, pensions, scholarships, etc. Indians have republics, towns, town elections, residencies, alguaciles, etc. Spanish provided Indians land, water, schools, hospitals, supplies, protections. Spanish checked who land belonged to before granting to another party. No Spanish, Negros - Blacks, Mestizos in Indian towns, no taverns. Defense, pirates, contraband, invasions, War with England, American Revolution. Mexican Independence. War with Mexico, United States invasion, filibusters, incursions, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Meriwether Lewis, Moses Austin, Jean LaFitte, etc. United States - Spanish Borderlands - Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Great Plains - Spanish in Quivira, Teguayo. Expeditions of Juan de Ulibarri and Pedro Vial. French, American tade, incursions. Quartelejo, Villasur. English Colonies, United States - Pirates, contraband, war, alliances. English - Carolina mistreat Apalache Indians, Spanish protect them. Some information on conflicts England, France, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Dutch, Holland, Hamburg, Denmark, Sweden. Protestants. Pirates Lorencillo, Hawkins, Cavandish, etc. War with England, American Revolution, donativos, Spanish support to France, war in Carribean, Guatemala, Gulf Coast. British fleet to New York, Cuba money to French for Yorktown. King, Governor Miro and Georgia Delegate, United States. Aaron Burr, English and United States designs on New Spain. Banned book on Iroquois Indians, 1779. Resettling Indians from United States in New Spain. Alaska, California, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida - Alaska and Oregon - Expeditions, Russians, Indian relations, English. California - Expeditions, towns, presidios, women, orphans. Pearls, mining, gold. Missions. English pirates, storms, earthquake, Monterrey presidio fire. Indian uprisings. United States 1841 invasion. Foreigners in California, insurgents. George Vancouver. John C. Fremont. Mexican War. Texas - Juan Dominguez de Mendoza to Texas, 1683. Settlement, presidios, pirates, Indian attacks, missions for Apaches. Inquisition - El Paso. Canary Islanders, Galicians, Tlaxcalans teach Indians. French history, and Indians, plan to bring in their Negro slaves and cattle. Some information on War with England, American Revolution, Gulf Coast. Galveston pirates. Negro slaves from Louisiana to Texas. Henry Staplen. American filibusers. Texas conflict 1813, Texas Revolt, Stephen Austin, James Davis, Sam Houston, newspaper articles by Henry Clay. Texas Republic, annexation. Mexican War. Caribbean, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, islands, etc. - Some information on administration, trade, tobacco, contraband, defense. Cuba supplies to other posts. Española, pirates, galley ships. Lorencillo. Agramote. Cuba, conditions in harbor, factories, wealth of church, society, haciendas. Foreign incursions, invasions. Denmark, Santo Tomas Island, 1721. War with England, role of Cuba, aid to Florida, Louisiana, United States. British fleet to New York, 1779, Cuba money to French fleet for Yorktown, 1781. Cuba and Provincias Internas reforms. Central America - Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua - Some information on administration, encomiendas, mining, tobacco, contraband, defense from English and French. Indian policies, missions. Inquisition letters about Guatemala and Nicaragua cases. Education. Itza, Guatemala and Martin de Ursua. Canary Islanders to Panama. Guatemala, earthquake, 1718. Guatemala and War with England. English, passage through ithmus, Nicaragua. French invasion 1781. Viceroyalty of Peru - Some policies for Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, administration, defense, pirates, trade, contraband, encomiendas, mining, tobacco, cacao, ties New Spain. Negro - Blacks slaves. Protection of Indian rights. Indians of Peru paying for defense against pirates in Tierra Fria. Peru - teaching Spanish to caciques' children. Schools. War with England. Peru provided cannons for other ports, supplies for San Blas, Acapulco. Gunpowder from Cuba to Argentina. Warnings of English and United States incursions. Peru and Argentina and Provincias Internas reforms. Diego de Peñalosa, Governor of New Mexico, from La Paz, other career. Philippines - Some information on encomiendas, slaves, missions, mining, trade, defense, etc. Gifts to King of Spain from Philippines. China products. Mistreatment of troops. Education.
