Concerns solutions to military crisis of Nueva Vizcaya; provides extensive instructions to O'Conor for implementation of new regulation of presidios; includes notes on presidio transfers to Rio Grande; specific raids on various locals; losses in population and animals; commerce and industry affected by war; O'Conor's expeditionary forces; new issues of arms and equipment; reflections on Indian warfare; soldier's ability as part of fighting force; logistics of new posts; church construction; reiterates building instructions for presidios given in regulation of 1772; financial provisions for building new presidios; security for money shipments; stationing of Catalans at Tonati; introductory letter by Bucareli notes that O'Conor has been granted title of comandante general. (J. Williams, June 1987)

Report concerning retiring governor Mendoza's reflections on Indian wars fought in Nueva Vizcaya; includes comments on presidio deployment; Indian depredations at Chihuahua city and elsewhere; need for permanent guard at that city; great dangers of bandits who threaten supply and bullion convoys; convoys to Nueva Mexico and Sonora; relative weakness of presidial locations; strengthes and weaknesses of each presidio; calls for supplemental forces composed of thirty auxiliary Tarahumara archers for each post; value of auxiliaries as spies in broken terrain; relative cost of financing auxiliary forces; progress of missions in province; customs of mission Indians; describes education of mission Indians; schools; their virtues, livestock and crops. (J. Williams, may 1987)

Request for money to maintain Indian de Paz; virrey requires submission of Cuenta de gastos every six months. Details Indian hostilities suffered in Nueva Vizcaya; need for troops including formation of compania de naturales. (D. Uhlman, may 1988)

Letters from civil authorities from different villages to viceroy Galvez in regard to attacks and depredations of Chichimecas and other groups who have killed and kidnapped women and children; killed various persons belonging to villages. Authorities requesting more soldiers to protect against attacks. (A. Dell'acqua, April 1988)

Lengthy, detailed infome from Cabello to virrey re: granting of peace to Lipanes. Cabello provides historical background information about province beginning with discovery in 1630, description of boundaries, establishment of missions and presidios, colonization by Canary Islanders. Describes continual war between Cumanches and Apaches including accounts of Cumanche robberies and murders committed against Spanish and Apaches. Discussion of need for troops, placement; table listing personnel available at presidios de Bejar and Espiritu Santo; presidio line. Cabello makes plea for financing, stating that if money is not provided for war, region including Santander, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Texas and part of Nueva Vizcaya will be lost; population will have to move to area that is safe for families. Letter follows nearly one year later again asking that peace be granted to Lipanes. (D. Uhlman, July 1988)

Copy of testimonios from juntas de guerra re: puntos de conferencia and response to puntos. Detailed background information about numbers of Indians, location, livelihood, intertribal alliances and kinship, sources and types of weapons, etc. Suggestions for best course of action in subduing Apache groups, gaining alliances with naciones del norte. Warning that any alliance with Lipanes against Indians del norte would be harmful; previous peace with Lipanes has been deceptive. Discussion of troops necessary to protect frontiers and strategy for deployment. (D. Uhlman, July 1988)

Correspondence between virrey, Herrera and Ramon primarily regarding Indian hostilities in Nuevo Leon and military attempts to rectify situation; documents include various notices of receipt of and enclosure of decrees and procedural military documents not actually present; of particular interest are diarios from Ramon of Punta de Lampazos and Herrera's discussion of situation in ff. 68-88, 104-119, and 126-132; women referred to as one casualty in a battle (f. 128); otherwise little substantive content. (D. J. McClelland, September 1988)

Series of procedural letters from Nava to virrey acknowledging receipt of expedientes and notifying virrey of enclosed documents (not present), no substantive content; also letters in ff. 43-46 and 53-55 regarding defense of northern borders and provinces from Apache hostilities I.e. livestock theft, geographic logistics, and troop movements, some substantive content; women referred to in terms of military permission to Garcia conde to marry Maria Teresa Vidal.

Monthly rosters of military personnel and armaments based at Villas Llera and Santander for first six months of 1795. Includes daily logs over same time period recording routine to other destinations, Indian raids. (A. Tukey, August 1988)

Includes bibliography of Herrera's correspondence with viceroy for 1795. Series of informes on troop strength at San Juan Bautista de la Punta, dispatch of troops to Nueva Vizcaya to defend against Mescalero raids, and reports of Indian attacks in Coahuila. (A. Tukey, August 1988)