Legal

Antonia de Salmas sells to Antonio Garcia de Cardenas, a 36 year old Negra slave, Isabella, for 200 pesos. (T. Barnes) (1977) additional slave sales- 0723-0724- 1 Negra, age 34, 400 pesos. 0740-0741- 1 Negro, age 21, 450 pesos. 0774-0774- 1 Negro, age 22, 540 pesos. 0785-0785- 1 Negro, age 22, 500 pesos. 0792-0792- 1 Negro, age 28, 600 pesos. 0802-0803- 1 Negro, age 32, 550 pesos. 0807-0807- 1 Negra, age 39, 500 pesos. 0807-0807- 1 Negro, age 13, 450 pesos. 0828-0829- 1 Negro, age 18, 430 epsos. 0829-0830- 1 mulato, age 22, 800 pesos. 0829-0830- 1 mulato, age ?, 800 pesos. 0833-0834- 1 Negra, age 36, 350 pesos. 0845-0846- 1 Negra, age 23, 480 pesos. 0864-0864- 1 mulato, age 22, 450 pesos. 0864-0865- 1 mulato, age 31, 500 pesos. 0877-0877- 1 mulato, age 22, 370 pesos. 0877-0878- 1 mulato, age 30, 520 pesos.

As result of civil case dated February 20, 1647 Geronimo Garcia Masotto acknowledges a debt of 500 pesos de oro Comun en plata to Juan Gomez Fernandez. In a petition to the justicia of Parral dated March 2, 1649 Juan Gomez Fernandez notes that Masotto was killed by Tarahumara rebels on a road in Sonora. And Fernandez wants his debt to be paid from the estate. The justicia and captain de guerra awards the Masotto estate to Diego de Unomo and after a couple statements attesting to Masotto's death the justicia general Juan Fernandez de Carrion orders that Juan G. Fernandez can take his debt out ot the Masotto estate, in terms of 25 or 30 beasts four of which should be 2 year old mules. The award is dated 15 April 1649. (R. Davis) (1975)

Further inquiries and testimony into the case of capitan Ontiberos, this time with the aid of the new interpreter - Joseph de Ochoa. The governor swears that he has provided a true account of the uprising of the Salineros Indians, as he was ordered to do. (C. Needham) (1975)

A manifest of the mines, ranches, cattle, and other property of the convicted capitan Baltasar de Ontiberos and a record of the measures taken to put his property under receivership. Other documents connected with the incident follow. (C. Needham) (1975)

A petition on the part of gov. Valdez that the government dispatch commissions of the residencia to prevent malpractices on the part of private persons in the mines of the real. (C. Needham) (1975)

Notification of the sentence imposed in the criminal case of capitan Baltasar de Ontiberos. A fine of quinientos (500) pesos applied to the costs of the new presidio at San Miguel was exacted. (C. Needham) (1975)

The hacienda of the convicted capitan Baltasar de Ontiberos, and all his personal property, is ordered sequestered and put under the administration of someone to be chosen by capitan Don Juan Calderon. (C. Needham) (1975)

A request by the governor that translators be appointed, especially those capable at speaking the lenguas Mexicanas, in order to facilitate dealings with the Indians. It is stipulated that such persons should be of proven loyalty. (C. Needham) (1975)

Appears to be a petition for amparo requesting that the governor extend his protection to liberate the petitioner from litigation concerning debt. (C. Needham) (1975)

Good background on Indian problems in the north, esp. With the expansion, necessitating the establishment of Cerro Gordo. Good on admin also. (T. Barnes) (1975)