Several years correspondence dealing with treatment of Apache, mayhem perpetrated by escapees; strategies to deter escape; mistreatment of captives re causes of escape-desertion and accountability; funds for sustaining Indian captives; problems encountered with captives in various localities; plans for relocation of Nuevo Santander Apaches to Habana and Vera Cruz separating men, women, children; use of Indian prisoner labor in tobacco harvests. (J. Higgins, March 1989)

Documents concern the transference of a group of Meco Indians from San Luis Potosi to Mexico under the commission of Pasqual de Burgoa. Request for a doctor to attend a gravely ill Indian. Payment of expenses incurred in transportation of Indians, in the salaries paid soldiers accompanying them, and of expenses in feeding the Indians during journey. Also given are a few baptisms along the way. Especially important are a group of lists concerning the Indians and the payment of the soldiers. Folios 171-173 contains an extensive list of the salaries paid soldiers and Cavos. folio 174 contains a list of expenses in transporting and feeding of the Indians. Folios 176-177 gives a list of Indian groups and the men and women who comprise the separate groups. (P. Lenz, September 1989)

Concerns trial against suspects of attack in a place called Palmitos and a ranch San Ambrocio. Responsibility placed on tribe named carruzos. Military orders are to arrest all Indians they find in the mountains out Side of haciendas and missions. Each Indian arrested is jailed and required to testify before the judge. (D. Bautista, October 1989)

Diaz de Luna conducting 74 Apaches from Chihuahua to Mexico City. Three Mimbrenos come to See if any of their band are among prisoners, are told there is only one, he a Christian. (later it seems there are many Mimbrenos in chaingang.) Documents concerning Luna's pay, finances of transport. Cordero threatens Tusseguslan with promise to conquer Mimbrenos, mentions ambush of Squielnocten, Mantas Negras. Some description of interaction with Tusseguslan, Yagonjli; Tusseguslan described as capable, astute, aggressive. F.445 concerns methods of indoctrinating, baptizing Indians. Mentions need for blankets for prisoners, who are without clothes, winter approaching. Cumpa, Yagonjli, Tusseguslan request release of their relatives (names and relationships listed on F.450) among prisoners. F.457-491, 499-528 are receipts for supplies (meat, grain) purchased from citizens for prisoners, followed by summary accounts of receipts, which document itinerary of trip. F.497 mentions Gilenos looking for Mimbrenos (said relatives of Cumpa, et Al). F.534 concerns ecclesiastic burial of Young Apache, Maria Josepfa. Final folios are beaurocratic documentation of transport. none of these documents alone contains much insight, taken together they provide good detail on transporting colleras (chaingangs). (A. Dean, September 1989)

These documents continued from F.316. Moreno leads transportation of chaingang of Apaches to capitol. (same Indians at times called Mecos.) One Indian left at San Carlos; one near death is baptized by Urruchua at pavellan; Meco infant Dies, is given Christian burial at San Juan del Rio. F.401 on are mostly accounts of expenses of travel, maintenance of Indians; receipts for transfer of money related to transport. (A. Dean, September 1989)

Moreno in charge of transporting 82 Apache prisoners from Chihuahua to Mexico City. Some detail on procedure for transporting colleras (chaingangs) on F.320-321. Documents concerning cost of travel, maintenance of prisoners. Detailed journal of events of trip, F.395-397. Mentions incident of some Indians shouting at soldiers, who opened fire, then removed ears from dead as prizes. (A. Dean, August 1989)

Concerns Series of letters giving notices of taxes, military actions against Indians, congratulations to officials for successful campaigns, soldiers from fronteras being exempted from paying taxes, reports on the status of military forces asked, charts reporting military status in Nuevo Santander (report includes ammunition, food, weapons, mules, horses, clothing, etc). Diaries of activities held with several military companies. Diary of activities done in Aguaverde (chart shows civil, military and religious personnel in presidio, also shows number of sick people). Diary of military operation in Monclova. Series of testimonies given by witnesses of confrontation with Indians. (M. Marroquin, March 1989)

Concerns de la Serna's petition to governor of Nuevo Santander of repayment of expenditures caused in the transportation of military prisoners to Mexico. Contains relation of salaries paid to de Leon and other five soldiers. de Leon and the soldiers testify having received one hundred and ninety pesos by de la Serna as payment for the transportation of Murgier and Puga to Mexico. Revillagigedo orders de la Serna to be repaid the two hundred and Ten pesos he had to expend. Murgier and Puga are ordered to pay one hundred and five pesos each on a monthly Basis.

Fayni tells Bucareli of Apache-Tarahumara union and joint depredations near Chihuahua 1772-75. Bucareli notes that because laws protect Indians, individual sedicion is preferable to mass reduccion. Request that Indian prisoners be moved from overcrowded Chihuahua jail to Guadalaxara for confessions. expresses intent to construct more jails. (S. Gibbs, September 1989)

Documents on location of Apache prisoner (Tagaquechoe); viceroy writes to both governors asking information on this prisioner; prisioner is not in Veracruz, but may be enroute to Havana. (J. Tapia, November, 1987)