Gunpowder

Various accounts and lists for flying company at Lampazos. Includes list of weapons held by presidial soldiers, manifest of soldiers and dependents; debts and credits of aforementioned soldiers; manifest of gunpowder used 1791, plus request for 16 libras of Polvora. (J. H. Ochs, September 1988)

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)

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)

Attempts made to control Indians via mission establishment at Cruillas. Military strength increased, guns purchased and distributed, weapons replaced at Padilla, Santillana and Marina. Iron and wax sold for financing of poor missions. Indian prisoners to be transported by de la Garza to Mexico. Land allotments described along with profits, expenditures of mission production. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Concerns mining operations, gunpowder trade and distribution, tobacco trading policies. Devis appointed administrator of gunpowder; Palacio as Mariscal del Campo. Gunpowder dispatched to 123 Plazas of the squadrons of Nuevo Santander. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Concerns trade regulations and expenditures for tobacco, salt, gunpowder, and playing cards. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Summary of expenditures and profits for various missions and towns in Nuevo Santander. Payments of officials and Soldados accounted for, supplies for troops and profits from tobacco described. (L. Deatherage, June 1987)

Documents from captain of flying company, governor of Coahuila, and junta general concerning Indian unrest in Coahuila, military wages and scarcity of gunpowder. Includes fiscal's response and journal of military campaign conducted against indios rebeldes, and military roster of flying company. (J. H. Ochs, June 1987)

Preneda upon assuming office as gobernador Interino reports on status of presidio at Santiago de Moncloa, Coahuila. He comments on lack of gunpowder, lack of care of weapons, physical conditions of buildings, relations with surrounding Indians (resistance, horse thefts, etc.). Details conditions of weapons, gunpowder, horses and mules for each of 39 officers and soldiers at presidio in 1739 and awaits further orders from viceroy. (J. M. Johnson, December 1986)