Corn

First seven folios concern agricultural tools, animals (bueyes, horses, Mulas, machos), corn sent to San Agustin and to Ovejas Rancho, corn rationed to workers, cargo de Reales, and data de reales; last twelve documents are related to preceeding entry (ff.0361-0374), are accounts of workers from hacienda de Cabras. (D. Bautista, January 1990)

Accounts of salaries, debts of hacienda workers; lists name, job title (vaquero, sabanero, Labrador, tanquero, Carpintero, Aviador), salary of each. Mentions 6 alquilados, 7 more for cosecha. (D. Bautista, January 1990)

Concerns accounting proceedures of haciendas. Individual accounts for 25 workers at hacienda de San Ignacio, signed by Diaz Maldonado; inventory of cattle, listing lost and dead. Receipts (not in order) for various business transactions between Castro, Torres; for Sanchez paying diezmo in corn. Report on cattle bueyada, mulada y Ganado bacuno; on horses from hacienda de Cerroalto; several receipts for flete from Arriaga to Maciel. Report and receipt for supplies imported to Amoles hacienda, from Ramirez of real Aduana de Guadalcazar to Maciel. Four invoices (lists prices, items) for goods from Querataro, Puebla, Mexico City, bought by Maciel. Receipts for Maciel's purchase of maiz from Moxica, Torres, Alvarez. (D. Bautista, January 1990)

Payment receipts numbered 28 to 40, includes receipt for diezmo paid to Almazan and Sanchez. Maciel sends cattle to Nuevo Reino de Leon. Inventory of tools; report of 27 workers from hacienda de Papagayos working in pisca. receipts of payment to various people for cattle, maquilas, arrovas of corn. Official certification of loss of cosecha. (D. Bautista, December 1989)

Weekly reports of hacienda workers, listing name, days worked, summary report signed by Diaz Maldonado; another hacienda report listed by number instead of week, same content, signed by Castro. Reports of leather sales, specifying locations of sales (including warehouse sales from January to October), to whom, payment received; accounts of debt and tax collection related to leather sales, from whom. Report of money received from Maciel, March to December. List of 33 servants, Pastores, their salaries. List of 14 workers, baqueros, their salaries. Report of purchase of corn, specifying for whom, date, quantity, price. List of reales sent by post, date sent, destination. Detailed accounts of purchases, expenses; invoices, bills; relation of gasto de Recua en el Jato. (D. Bautista, December 1989)

Accounts of Amoles hacienda with total money spent, received, and individual amounts for debts, corn sales, sheep, cattle, mules, burros, oxen, wool, seed, caballada Mansa y Serrera, signed by Guevara on December 31, 1803. Accounts of 111 servants, Pastores listing name, salary, debts of each (covers 1799-1803). Reports concerning goods, animals of hacienda. (D. Bautista, December 1989)

Certification of cargo from ministerio general de la real hacienda; several bills of sale Charged to Gonzalez del Castillo; Castillo sells mules to Martinez; certified note for delivery of powder to factory of San Pedro de Ibarra; Bill of sale of leather to Lezaun; Bill of sale of sugar, cacao to Baptista Perez; report of money spent for yerba, oil, paper, books, imported seed, iron, steel, accountants used in hacienda. Summary of money spent and made on corn, mail, steel, iron, salaries of pastors, servants, workers, cowboys, Herrero. Accounts of merchandise, with total of things sent, price of each, number of receipts; monthly portion of corn given to workers; report of sheep, bueyes, novillos, number alive, number dead during year; report of steel, iron used to make tools for hacienda; report of earnings of Herrero; report of shearing done in August, 1803, listing for each worker name, how many sheep sheared, money earned. Detailed description of horses of hacienda. (D. Bautista, December 1989)

Series of correspondence regarding necessity of stepping up military on border with Luisiana due to U.s. aggression; artillery and infantry crucial to border defense plan offered by Bonavia; plan for troop mobilization and military supply routes climate, economy, population, terrain, cost of troop upkeep; question of what to do with anglos living on Spanish land as foreigners (deport them? Leave them alone?); interesting Series of documents. (D. J. McClelland, July 1989)

Correspondence between oficials in Alamos, gobernador Corbalan and comandante Croix concerning various forms of aid which should be given to the Rivera expedition to California. Details given on status of recruitment of soldiers and settlers from Sonora (24 families, 59 soldiers); numbers reported for different dates. Rivera urgently requests action for daily expenses, horses, riding gear. Great detail on clothing requirements for each man, woman, child. Talks of calamity if food supplies of beans, corn, dried meat don't reach embittered settlers suffering hardships. Ruiz account lists Actual expenditures for individual daily needs, including food, health, horses, salaries. Payment suspended to deserter. Marginal notes by de Croix refer to previous articles, ordnances, correspondence by dates and numbers. (J. M. Johnson, November 1988)

Llanos y Valdes, the bishop, is accused of carefully cutivating several crops while not allowing any of the benefits to go to the poor or to the public in general. Mention is made of the halted construction in Monterrey of cathedral, Hospital, convent, and seminary. Several informes addressed to the virrey Revilla Gigedo asked him to find speedy solutions to the various problems caused by the bishop; one even asked for the aid of the church in Madrid. As one author stated, the overall problem is the mismanagement by Llanos y Valdes of the Diezmos for the diocesis. On January 24, 1794, Llanos de Valdes wrote to Revilla Gigedo on his own behalf; he denied mismanaging the Diezmos and said that the money made from the crops was enough to cover only a portion of the debts of the Diezmos. Additionally, Llanos y Valdes' excommunication of Rubalcava came up again (he received such treatment for being absent from the Pesqueria el Grande Valley without the permission of the bishop). Ff. 427 is chart of monetary transactions for ecclesiastical items. Ff. 421 and 431-435 and 439 are also charts; they are copies of pages from rublacava's books as contador de Diezmos for Monterrey. Ff.411 is followed by informes, also copies of earlier documents, explaining the chart's contents. (S. Langmack may 1990)