Request by capitan Cueto y Vierna for a year license to go to Spain to take care of properties. Illness prevents trip until two years later, interim transfer to Veracruz. Letters from governor to viceroy questioning transfer. Problems arise about salary adjustment and taxes paid. Cueto stationed in Habana due to dissolving of company. Transferred to Veracruz while questions of salary are resolved. King orders rapid solution of entanglement. Request granted by king for Cueto's permanent transfer to Havana. (A. Dell'acqua, 4/27/87)

Request by spiritual custodio Santa Fe for soldiers to escort religious missionaries to Penol de Caquima to provide spiritual guidance to rebellious Indians. Veiled accusation of abuse of power and authority, slander and forgery of witnesses named by fray Cristobal de Quiroz. Request to viceroy by presidio personnel to keep governor as he is a good soldier. (A. Dell'acqua, 4/6/87)

Criminal charges brought by fray Gonsales against capt. Flores include procuring arms from Frenchmen, inciting Indian hostilities and unchristian behavior. Flores removed from capitancy of presidio. Also includes presidial role for San Antonio Bexar (f.170). (J. Carpenter June 1987).

List of names entitled Sonora. At bottom of page is alcalde mayor de Tepic. (L. Deatherage, July 1987) payments to troops, sales taxes and fines for commerce and building construction, conflicts with Indians; prisoners taken, military strategies used, Indian attack on Padilla, education of captive Indian children. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Military rolls for flying squadrons of Nuevo Santander with letters from governor acknowledging receipt of troop reviews. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Describes situation with Indians: murders of and by; religious education of; military strategies used to subdue, and control; agricultural labor of, and transporting to prisons. Tobacco, gunpowder, and land finances listed along with expenditures and troop payments, appointments made in civil offices of governor and justicia. Activities at missions described: crop production, establishment of new orders, rebuilding of destroyed mission, failure of priests to report profits and subsequent conflicts with royal officials, and distribution of mission supplies. Case of presidial captain of Laredo falsifying location of town. Travel conditions at Tetillas poor. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Concerns proceedings of murder trial of priests accused of killing Indians. Mission at Taumabe to be rebuilt, weapons distributed to villages. Mention of salary increase and recognition of recent promotion. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Gonzalez appointed as new governor of Nuevo Santander. Requests salary increase to suit rank as teniente Colonel. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Missions established in Mier, Hoyos, Santillana. Post established in Aguayo. Mines at Tamualipas Vieja scouted. Troops increased at Escandon and Horcasitas. Mining extracts to be sent to San Luis Potosi. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Three letters describing legal-economic affairs in Nuevo non-payment of taxes, mismanagement of tobacco trade, appearance of satirical cartoons, installation of religious order, general descriptions of tobacco industry. Governor complains about job. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)