(R. Davis) (1980)

(R. Davis) (1980)

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)

Gregoria Francisca Corrala, vecina of Valle de San Bartholome, who left Parral as little girl, petitions for title to Solar and Casa occupied by her Mother and now occupied by Maria Gertrudis de Vetancruz. Vetancruz defended by bachiller y presbitero Joseph Joachin Lopes de Olivas according to ecclesiastical right to Argue Cases of poor persons. Priest demands Corrala's case be dismissed because married women must have husbands' license to engage in litigation. Excellent documents concerning Spanish civil procedure, etc. (T. Sheridan) (1977)

Lucas Salcido complains that his neighbors-Xavier Mendez, etc.- are letting their stock graze on his land and that this stock is ruining his sembradas and Ojo de Agua. The neighbors maintain that the land is not used, never was used, and should be common property anyway. Lucas Salcido and Thomas Ruiz de Avendano do not agree. The neighbors are accordingly fined 10 pesos and sentenced to eight days in jail, and told to get their stock out immediately. (P. Hayes) (1977)

Dispute over land between naturales of Parras Pueblo and Juan Ruiz del Valle. (T. Sheridan) (1977)

The Indians in the Vicinity of Lajas petition the Alcalde mayor and the governor for land, as they don't have enough to support themselves. After conferring with nearby pueblos, the gobernador grants their request. Good detail on crops, animals. Also census for three villages. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Indians of the Valley of San Bartolome are ordered sent to towns and new missions at the juncture of the Concho River and the River of the north. This is contested by the land and mine owners of San Bartolome. Good history and social- organizational information presented by land and mine owners, by Indians, by Franciscan priests and by the governor. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Complaint by Tarahumaras, that a herd of mules owned by sgt. Myr. Juan Antonio de Trasbina Retes is ruining their fields of crops. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Conflict over land and water between Tarahumaras supported by Jesuits and Spanish land-owners. A compromise is worked out. (T. Barnes) (1976)