Crimes

(R. Davis) (1980)

(R. Davis) (1980)

A very involved suit between the marques de la Penuela and Cuerbo y Valdes; charges against Valdes by councilmen and soldiers, that during his entire governorship he had altered the accounts and unfairly paid them low prices for their merchandise; that he was guilty of tyranny, extracting forced labor from residents by threatening them with hanging; that he was a violent man, a number of whose servants and slaves wished to leave him. Also, at the time of the assumption of the governorship by the marques, the handing over of the power was accompanied by violent disagreement between himself and Valdes as to who should pay certain expenses. There is also a charge that the marques was the instigator of an Apache raid on livestock of Valdes. The papers here are incomplete and the outcome of the suit is not given. (Lloyd Kendall) (1980)

Order by governor exiling Nicolas Francisco Ortiz to bernaillo for misuse of his position as teniente de Alcalde de Picuries y Taos, and for breaking anti-barter orders. (R. Saba) (1980)

Thomas de Herrera petitions marques for custody of his grandchild and godchild who was in service of Bartolome Sanches whom he accused of abusing the child. In an accompaning document marques grants the request. (R. Saba) (1980)

(R. Davis) (1980)

Neyra entrusted two of his slaves- a Mulata of advanced age and her one year old son- to the care of Armendariz to be transported to oro where a buyer had agreed to pay 230 pesos for the two. Armendariz wrote back a year later saying that he could only get 140 pesos for them, but due to Neyra's bad faith he wasn't going to carry the transaction through. The court finds in favor of Neyra who receives the full amount from Armendariz. (R. Perez) (1977)

Investigation of robberies, murders, rustling committed by Juan Manuel Estevan Rivera and other outlaws throughout Nueva Vizcaya. Rivera, prisoner in Obraje de Encimillas, apparently testifies against his Former cronies, an ethnically mixed group of gente de Razon, mulattoes, Tarahumara Indians from all over the province, who stole everything from silver to livestock and traded with indios enemigos, the Apaches. (T. Sheridan) (1977)

Documents concerning una Rancheria compuesta de Espanoles, mulatos, Coyotes, Taraumares, y otras castas, numbering 100 men, united with the Apaches, who were robbing, rustling, Murdering throughout Cienega de los Olibos area. Led by a Spaniard from Atotonilco*) (1977)

Causa criminal against Juan Antonio Duarte, mestizo, for assaulting Jose Francisco Martinez, described as Mancebo (youth). (T. Sheridan) (1977)