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Letter of governor Fayni to viceroy Bucareli and draft response

Serial Number
041-01095
Title
Letter of governor Fayni to viceroy Bucareli and draft response
Author(s)
Fayni, Josef
Bucareli y Ursua, Antonio Maria
Date
11-06-1773
Date
11-24-1773
Documentation
Mexico, Durango. November 6, 24, 1773. 6p. Letter, draft. Original, signed
Summary
Concerns Fayni's recent visit of inspection to frontier; he comments on conditions of militias and auxiliaries found at various towns, cities and haciendas; notes many isolated places; hardship of military service for frontiersmen; difficulty of reporting on operations; notes illiteracy of frontiersmen hombres rusticos que ni saben leer, ni son capazes de guardar semejante forma. (J. Williams, March 1987)
Persons
O'conor, Hugo (Comandante Inspector)
Fayni, Josef
Bucarlei y Ursua, Antonio Maria
Fayni, Joseph
Places
Nueva Vizcaya
Parras
Saltillo
Durango
Mexico
First Location
AZTM, AGN, Vol. 043 ff. 224-226
Original Location
AGN, Mexico City, Provincias Internas Vol. 043 ff. 224-226
Language
Spanish
Notes
Out of order
Reference Number
4300043
UAIR Filtering Fields
Author Last Name
Fayni
Bucareli y Ursua
Person Last Name
O'conor
Fayni
Bucarlei y Ursua
Fayni
Beginning Date Month
November
End Date Month
November
Beginning Date (repacked)
11-06-1773
End Date (repacked)
11-24-1773
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
uadc://masterindex/5442
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Request and report on new methods of spiritual and temporal governing of missions of province and related correspondence

Serial Number
041-01084
Title
Request and report on new methods of spiritual and temporal governing of missions of province and related correspondence
Author(s)
Fayni, Josef
Bucareli y Urusa, Antonio Maria
Arespacoachaga, Josef
Soior Zano, Anttonio
Date
05-01-1773
Date
07-12-1773
Documentation
Mexico, Durango. May 1, July 12, 1773. 85p. Informe, draft. Original, copy
Summary
Very detailed report on current condition of missions of Nueva Vizcaya, and new political regime being implemented for their governing; includes notes on doctrinas and missions; religious services rendered to Indians; conduct of missionaries; crops grown; application of civil laws; various community rights; economic conditions; record keeping related to livestock, people etc.; apostates; immorality of Indians; idolatry and its relation to crimes; places apostates inhabit; settlement dispersal in province; congregation of Indians in select reducciones; passport for Indian travel; work of Indians outside missions; care required to prevent desertion of mission Indians; learning of trades; continued hunting and gathering; work of women; various kinds of contamination by outsiders; housing descriptions of mission and non-mission Indians; irrigation; household furnishings; Indian Christian customs; failure to fully acculturate; Indian custom of eating horses; diseases; work at mines; cessation of custom of having yndios de mita in forced repartamiento labor; vagabondage; Spanish language instruction; cesarean medical operation; desertion; pulque consumption; disease resulting in depopulation. (J. Williams, March 1987)
Persons
Fayni, Josef
Bucareli y Ursua, Antonio Maria (Frey)
Quiroga, Basco
Phelipe Tercero (Rey)
Croix, Marques de
Felix (Indio)
Luca (Indio)
Manco, Ignacio (Hechicero)
Florentina (Hechicera)
Viexa, Juan (Indio)
Xavier (Governador del Pueblo de Concepcion) Arespacochaga, Josef
Arriola, Diego Francisco (Indio)
Soior Zano, Anttonio
Places
Canatlan (Pueblo)
Nueva Vizcaya
Mexico
Durango
Sierra Madre
Sinaloa
Michoacan
Analco, San Juan
Nueva Galicia
Jalisco
Aranjuez
Batolipas
Tubares (Pueblos de)
Tubares, San Ygnacio (Pueblo)
Tubares, Concepcion (Pueblo)
Ethnic Groups
Taraumares
Tepehuanes Altos
Tepehuanes
Negros
Mulatos
Lobos
First Location
AZTM, AGN, Vol. 043 ff. 148-190
Original Location
AGN, Mexico City, Provincias Internas Vol. 043 ff. 148-190
Language
Spanish
Notes
Marked expediente 2,organized as paper of points, includes letter copied into report by various earlier colonial officials (including marques de Croix and borbolla), out of order, consists of 69 numbered paragraphs.
Reference Number
4300032
UAIR Filtering Fields
Author Last Name
Fayni
Bucareli y Urusa
Arespacoachaga
Arespacoachaga
Person Last Name
Fayni
Bucareli y Ursua
Quiroga
Phelipe Tercero
Croix
Felix
Luca
Manco
Florentina
Viexa
Xavier Arespacochaga
Arriola
Soior Zano
Beginning Date Month
May
End Date Month
July
Beginning Date (repacked)
05-01-1773
End Date (repacked)
07-12-1773
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
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ISO 369-3 Language code
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Padre Francisco Antonio Barbastro to virrey Conde de Revilla Gigedo, informe concerning missions of Pimeria Alta.

Serial Number
041-00865
Title
Padre Francisco Antonio Barbastro to virrey Conde de Revilla Gigedo, informe concerning missions of Pimeria Alta.
Author(s)
Barbastro, Francisco Antonio (Fray)
Date
12-01-1793
Documentation
Aconchi. December 1, 1793. Auto. Copy (dated January 21, 1794).
Summary
Describes geographical range Pimeria Alta missions. Speaks of continuing Apache menace. Notes depopulation of area due to diseases, Apache attacks. Discusses temporal affairs of missions, including livestock raising, planting communal fields maize, wheat, and vegetables, which feeds widows, sick, military escorts, mission Indians during lean months of April, May, and June, thereby inducing Indians to remain in pueblos instead of wild-food gathering. Notes sale of surplus to mines/presidios to purchase church supplies, barter goods. Notes decline of mission agriculture last 8 years due to lack of seeds, decline of Cieneguilla mines, and increased number of farmers. States mission business is conducted by Indian governors under missionaries' guidance. Describes architecture of Indian houses; agriculture, including cultivation of pomegranates, quinces, cotton, and sugar cane as well as shrubs of gomilla, jojoba, both of which used medicinally. Describes herbs used, including indigo (anil), gediondilla, zimarron, contra yerba. Claims 2 harvests pithaya per year in west. Notes presence gypsum, lime, piedra bezal found in deer, especially those killed near coast. Says province is covered with grama grass, thereby providing forage for much livestock. Describes climate, mineral wealth, including real of Cieneguilla, only settlement of Spaniards in Pimeria Alta. Describes settlements. Tiburones described as Seri groups. Describes excellent salt fields along coast. Describes port of Tepoca/pearl beds nearby. Notes presence of subterranean water. Says Papagos come to missions to sell young boys captured in slave raids carried out by interior nations; these slaves called Vijoras (Nixoras). No active commerce carried on by Indians. Describes uses of cotton. Says Pimas are good farmers, growing wheat, maize, squash, cotton. During harvests, many traders arrive to barter cloth, etc. for produce. Says Pimas stay in pueblos, not like Yaquis and many Opatas who wander (probably to work in mines). Discusses reasons why missions should not be secularized. Estimates Gila Pima population at 2,000. Compares Pimas favorably to Opatas, who no longer respect missionaries. Describes temporary nature of Spanish settlement of Sonora, Pimeria Alta. Says 8 leagues from Aconchi, the San Juan mine, full of water, is abandoned now. Discusses precautions necessary for populating Sonora. Encourages development of Tepoca, Guaymas to give Sonora easy access to sea, Tiburon Island as way station for transportation of livestock. Discusses need to develop educational facilities, including primary schools at Indian settlements. Notes belief among Opatas at Aconchi in Montezuma, who they claimed was their king and had risen and appeared in mountains. Describes his school, which taught girls as well as boys to read, write. (T. Sheridan) (1976)
Persons
Font, Pedro (Padre)
Crespo, Benito
Garces, Francisco (Padre)
Moyano (Padre)
Neve, Felipe de
Guillen, Felipe (Padre)
Guemes y Horcasitas, Juan Francisco de (Conde de Revilla Gigedo)
Barbastro, Francisco Antonio (Padre)
Revillagigedo
Rivera Guadian, Juan Francisco (Fray)
Places
Colorado (Rio)
San Francisco Moqui
Nochi
Pimeria Alta
Gila (Rio)
Saric
Tubutama
Ati
Caborca
Ures
Tecoripa
Tucson (Tueson)
Arispe
Cieneguilla
Tumacacori
San Xavier
Santa Maria Suanca
Terrenate
San Luis (Valle)
Guevavi
Calabasas
Cocospera
Imuris
Magdalena
San Ignacio
Altar
Santa Teresa
Oquitoa
Pitiqui
Bisaniq
Tepoca
Isla Tiburon
Yaqui (Rio)
California
San Antonio de la Huerta (Real)
Aigame (Aygame)
Bacanuchi
Chinapa
Banamichi
Ures
San Carlos de Sonora (Real)
Taraychi
Nuri
Onavas
Tecoripa
Suaqui
Buenavista
Cumuripa
Belen
San Jose
Santa Rosalia
Nacameri
Santa Barbara (Canal)
Guachinera
Opatu (Opulo)
Guasavas
Bavispe
San Gabriel
Monterrey (Monte Rey)
New Mexico
Guaymas
Alamos
Oposura
Queretaro, Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz de
Ethnic Groups
Apaches
Tiburones
Seris
Papagos
Tipocas
Vijoras (Nixoras)
Pimas
Yaquis
Opatas
Pimas Gilenos
Yumas
nochis
Jamajovas
Moquis
First Location
AZTM, AGN, Vol. 033 ff. 529-544 exp. 5
Original Location
AGN, Mexico City, Provincias Internas Vol. 033 ff. 529-544 exp. 5
Language
Spanish
Reference Number
3300017
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Font
Crespo
Garces
Moyano
Neve
Guillen
Guemes y Horcasitas
Barbastro
Revillagigedo
Rivera Guadian
Beginning Date Month
December
Beginning Date (repacked)
12-01-1793
Type
Text
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Padre Dionysio Murillo a padre Salvador Gandara. Carta de noticias.

Serial Number
040-00677
Title
Padre Dionysio Murillo a padre Salvador Gandara. Carta de noticias.
Author(s)
Murillo, Dionysio (Padre)
Date
06-19-1766
Documentation
San Phelipe el Real. June 19, 1766. 2p. Letter. Original. Signed.
Summary
After delaying news of several missions and colegio of Chiguagua, Murillo details the severe problems caused by periodic attacks on people and livestock by hostile Indians. (D. Deeds) (1977)
Persons
Murillo, Dionysio (Padre)
Gandara, Salvador (Padre)
Nepomezo, Antonio (Padre)
Pastrana, Joseph Luis (Padre)
Vadillo, Francisco (Padre)
Claudio, (Padre)
Flores, Manuel (Padre)
Cardona, (Padre)
Steb, Juan (Padre)
Aramburu, (Padre)
Places
San Philipe
Coyachic (Mision)
Moris (Mision)
Chinarras (Mision)
First Location
AZTM, AGN., Mexico. Jesuitas. Fichero J-03-14.
Original Location
AGN, Mexico, Jesuitas, Fichero 03-14
Language
Spanish
Batch Reference Number
3549
UAIR Filtering Fields
Person Last Name
Murillo
Gandara
Nepomezo
Pastrana
Vadillo
Claudio
Flores
Cardona
Steb
Aramburu
Beginning Date Month
June
Beginning Date (repacked)
06-19-1766
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
uadc://masterindex/4217
ISO 369-1 Language code
es
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Autos y testamentos sobre la remocion de las doctrinas de San Geronimo de Guejotitlan.

Serial Number
040-00148
Title
Autos y testamentos sobre la remocion de las doctrinas de San Geronimo de Guejotitlan.
Date
00-00-1653
Documentation
Parral. 1653, 1682. 38p. Auto. Original. Signed.
Summary
(J. Erbe) (1978)
Persons
Valdez, Francisco (Padre)
Guajardo Fajardo, Diego (Gobernador)
Evia y Valdes, Diego (Obispo)
Villar, Gabriel de
Candano, Juan de
Places
Parral
Guejotitlan
Ethnic Groups
Tarahumaras
Tepeguanes
First Location
AZTM. Jesuit Hist. Inst. Amer. Div., Tucson. Mf. 06-A-02
Original Location
AGN, Mexico, Jesuitas, Fichero 01-16
Other Location
MOSU. Mf.
Language
Spanish
Batch Reference Number
00004207/JHI
UAIR Filtering Fields
Person Last Name
Valdez
Guajardo Fajardo
Evia y Valdes
Villar
Candano
Beginning Date (repacked)
1653
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
uadc://masterindex/3762
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es
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Virrey Lope Diaz Almendariz. Traslado aplicando la doctrina de los Tarahumaras a los Jesuitas sin que entremeten los Franciscanos.

Serial Number
040-00119
Title
Virrey Lope Diaz Almendariz. Traslado aplicando la doctrina de los Tarahumaras a los Jesuitas sin que entremeten los Franciscanos.
Author(s)
Diaz Almendariz, Lope
Date
02-29-1640
Documentation
Mexico. February 29, 1640. 3p. Auto.
Summary
(J. Erbe) (1978)
Persons
Diaz Almendriz, Lope (Virrey)
Places
Mexico
Tarahumares
Ethnic Groups
Tarahumaras
First Location
AZTM. Jesuit Hist. Inst. Amer. Div., Tucson. Mf. 06-A-02
Original Location
AGN, Mexico, Jesuitas, Fichero 01-16
Other Location
MOSU. Mf.
Language
Spanish
Batch Reference Number
00004194/JHI
UAIR Filtering Fields
Person Last Name
Diaz Almendriz
Beginning Date Month
February
Beginning Date (repacked)
02-29-1640
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
uadc://masterindex/3733
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es
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Anua del colegio de Durango de la compania de Jesus desde el ano de 1742 hasta el de 1757 (?).

Serial Number
040-00020
Title
Anua del colegio de Durango de la compania de Jesus desde el ano de 1742 hasta el de 1757 (?).
Date
EQ-UE-N.D.
Documentation
N.p. n.d. 15p. Copy.
Summary
Gives a brief description of all activities of the Jesuit colegio in Durango- both religious and temporal- for period 1742 until 1757. Good section on agricultural themes. Lists several out of ordinary and near miraculous happenings as a fairly comprehensive picture of this small poor northern colegio emerges. (D. Deeds) (1977)
Persons
Hualde, Pedro de (Padre)
Zugasti, Ignacio (Padre)
Gastamvide, Pedro (Hermano)
Places
Durango
San Isidro de la Punta (Hacienda)
First Location
AZTM, AGN., Mexico. Jesuitas. Fichero J-03-16.
Original Location
AGN, Mexico, Jesuitas, Fichero 03-16
Language
Spanish
Batch Reference Number
3562
UAIR Filtering Fields
Person Last Name
Hualde
Zugasti
Gastamvide
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
uadc://masterindex/3639
ISO 369-1 Language code
es
ISO 369-3 Language code
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Padre Rector Christobal Hierro al padre provincial Juan Antonio Baltasar. Annua del colegio de Durango de la compania de Jesus del ano 1742 hasta el de 1751.

Serial Number
040-00004
Title
Padre Rector Christobal Hierro al padre provincial Juan Antonio Baltasar. Annua del colegio de Durango de la compania de Jesus del ano 1742 hasta el de 1751.
Author(s)
Hierro, Christobal (Padre Rector)
Date
None Given
Documentation
Durango. N.d. 26pp. Annua. Original. Signed.
Summary
A summary of the status and activities of the Jesuit colegio in Durango over a nine year period though the college was always in precarious financial state reflecting Durango itself it carried on an active religious life of regular masses, celebration of saints days, services for the poor, education and other activities. Also recorded are clergy deaths and seemingly super natural happenings during the period. (D. Deeds) (1976)
Persons
Hierro, Christobal (Padre Rector)
Balthasar, Juan Antonio (Padre Provincial)
Gualde, Pedro de (Padre)
Sugarti, Ignacio (Padre)
Ganambide, Pedro (Hermano)
Soto, Juan de
Places
Durango
San Isidro de la Punta (Hacienda)
First Location
AZTM, AGN., Mexico. Historia. V. 0020 exp. 006
Original Location
AGN, Mexico, Historia, Leg. 0020 exp. 006
Language
Spanish
Batch Reference Number
3015
UAIR Filtering Fields
Person Last Name
Hierro
Balthasar
Gualde
Sugarti
Ganambide
Soto
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
uadc://masterindex/3623
ISO 369-1 Language code
es
ISO 369-3 Language code
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Carlos IV. Real cedula para que el gobernador de Nuevo Mexico cuide del establecimiento de escuelas y uso del idioma castellano.

Serial Number
030-00703
Title
Carlos IV. Real cedula para que el gobernador de Nuevo Mexico cuide del establecimiento de escuelas y uso del idioma castellano.
Author(s)
Carlos IV
Date
10-03-1803
Documentation
San Lorenzo. October 3, 1803. 2p.
Summary
Orders the governor of New Mexico to obey the real cedulas of 10 may 1770, 28 November 1772, and 24 November 1774 which provided for the establishments of schools in all Indian pueblos. Castellano is to be taught while prohibiting the use of indigenous dialects. Also ordered is the forbidding of the use of anything other than Castellano in convents, monasteries, the courts, business transactions, etc. (G. Miller) (1977)
Persons
Alencaster, Joaquin del Real (Gov.)
First Location
AGI. Aud. Guad., Sig. 103-3-29, Leg. 0258
Original Location
AGI, Sevilla, Aud.Guadalajara, Leg. 0258(103-3-29)
Language
Spanish
Batch Reference Number
4782
UAIR Filtering Fields
Person Last Name
Alencaster
Beginning Date Month
October
Beginning Date (repacked)
10-03-1803
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
uadc://masterindex/3619
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es
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Obispo de Durango, al rey. Una carta.

Serial Number
030-00426
Title
Obispo de Durango, al rey. Una carta.
Author(s)
Obispo de Durango
Date
08-26-1715
Documentation
Santa Rosa de Corodeguachi. August 26, 1715.
Summary
Report on the bishop of Durango's visita. Includes remarks on commerce, roads, population, relations with Indians, conversion efforts religiosity of the converts. Conditions in missions, education of Indians, crops, food, problems with mulatos and mestizos, mining, herbal medicine, presidios. Includes distances between towns and the route followed. Ends with updated summary of conditions. (J. Grusin) (1976)
Places
Santa Rosa de Corodeguachi
Zacatecas
Durango
Cuencame
San Francisco de Conchos
Topia
Guanaceri
Culican
Sombrerete
San Miguel
Auino
Gamon
San Francisco de Loro
Torrecilla
Pasaje
San Francisco de Cullar
Janos
Nascosari
Mobas
Alamo
Ethnic Groups
Mulatos
Mestizos
First Location
AZTM. Jesuit Hist. Inst. Amer. Div., Tucson. Mf. J-02-B-11 V. 023, p. 501-550 rl. 0018
Original Location
AGI, Sevilla, Aud.Guadalajara, Leg. 0206(67-5-15)
Other Location
Razon y Fe Library, Madrid. Pastells Col. V. 023, p. 501-550 MOSU. Mf. Jesuitica. Pastells Col. rl. 0027 V. 023, p. 501-550
Language
Spanish
Batch Reference Number
4304
UAIR Filtering Fields
Beginning Date Month
August
Beginning Date (repacked)
08-26-1715
Type
Text
UAiR identifier
uadc://masterindex/3342
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ISO 369-3 Language code
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