Geography

Very thorough visita of the region of San Francisco de Cuellar by the governor. Excellent census and economic information. Visita included haciendas de labor, haciendas de Sacar Plata, minas y tiendas. (T. Barnes) (1976)

A general visita by the governor to the Valley of San Bartolome. Most of the inspection concerns haciendas, with the governor inspecting the conditions of laborers, the financial status of the hacienda. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Field reports and orders from the governor for the campaign carried out against the Acoclames and Cocoyomes. Good ethnographic information. Good for geography. Also good census information included with lists of soldiers and Indian auxiliaries with their horses and weapons, at each presidio. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Ronquillo, Zacatecas merchant grants Munoz, Parral Vecino, legal right to sell his Mulatto slave, Joseph de la Cruz, age 16, who Ronquillo bought from Joseph de Medrano y Correa along with slave's Mother, Brother, for total of 550 pesos. Munoz finally sells Mulatto Joseph at age 21, for 250 pesos. 0450b-0452a- concerning legal status mulatilla, age 1 daughter of mulatta slave who bought her Carta de Libertad for 100 pesos. 0495a-0496a- Carta de Libertad granted to Mulatto slave de color cocho, age 26. No price given. 0526b-0528a- concerns legality Frenchman Juan de Estrada's title to Mulatto slave. (T. Sheridan) (1976)

Order form the viceroy on abuse of Indians in Sonora by landowners, miners and government officials. Re-states regulations on Indian labor and wages and land use for stock- raising adjacent to Indian lands. Also reprimands government officials in Sonora for taking matters into their own hands which belonged in the jurisdiction of the governor of Nueva Viscaya. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Excellent Series of reports from private citizens local government officials, the military, the governor and the viceroy concerning Indian hostilities, mainly Acoclames and Cocoyomes. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Excellent report on the reduction of various Janos and jocames bands at Casas Grandes. A step by step description of the process; the settlement, the planting of crops, the baptisms and marriages. Gives a list of the Indians involved, their approximate age group-the money paid for sacraments, the gifts given to them by the governor. Also, a false assumption by the local priest that the Cocoyomes and acocolames have resigned themselves to peace. (T. Barnes) (1976)

This list is not complete, but helpful still for geography and general status of mining. (T. Barnes) (1976)

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)