Expediente file on the campaign for pacification of Sumas and other tribes by Jose de Berrotaran, comandant of presidio of San Francisco de Conchos. Contains; certified copies of initial instructions of Juan Francisco de la Puerta y Barrera, gov. Of Nueva Vizcaya (September 30, October 8, 1749), Berrotaran's campaign diary (October 5, November 24, 1749, signed January 7, 1750), testimony on Berrotaran's future to obey order as regards the line of March and the Apache chief Pascual, diary (November 27-December 15, 1749) of Cerrogordo comandant Jose Sanchez de Campillo documents concerning Berrotaran's arrest, defense and attachment of his property, the claim of his wife (Margarita de Ugarte) to the same property, and referral of the case to the viceroy. 184p. Partly on stamped pages. Written principally in San Felipe el real and the Conchos presidio. Pages tied together. With the signatures of Puerta, Berrotaran; Sanchez de Campillo; Dona Margarita; capts. Bartolome Luis Fernandez de Alcorta and Alonso Vitores Rubin de Celis; lts. Juan Jose de Basterrechea, Pedro Joaquin Diaz, and Jose de Vargas; and the notaries Juan Jose de Arespacochaga and Juan Antonio Marine. Legalistic and repetitious. Indians are mentioned but no real info. Given. Good example of sp. Bureaucracy. I would guess the ms. Was taken from Parral archives. (T.n.) (1975)