Labor Force (Servants)

Report from hacienda de los Amoles of corn paid to workers weekly throughout 1803, one report for each month listing names, quantity of corn for each. Reports from quaderno numero 5 concern 44 workers residing at Amoles. Reports of servants, workers arquilados en siembra and arquilados en cosecha without ration. Four documents concerning raya de la labor de Papagayos, listing 24 workers and time worked. Folios titled sirvientes de la hacienda de cabras lists 57 workers' names, job titles, salaries, debts, one page per person (See also ff.0361-0374 of this volume). (D. Bautista, January 1990)

Report of workers from Dolores Rancho, listing name, job title, salary, debts of each. Quaderno of servants from hacienda de Ovejas. Report of alquilados with 13 workers. Inventory of tools at hacienda de Ovejas. Report of economic aid to 29 workers from Rancho de Dolores. (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)

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)

quaderno de raya lists names of hacienda workers, duration of employment; reports goods sold by Almacen between January and October; reports cost of supplies for laboradores, Pastores, sirvientes; reports cost of goods given to recua. (D. Bautista, December, 1989)

Cuenta general for Villa puente detail expenses from 1737 until 1746. Accounts examined and approved by Armesto and Jesuits in 1753. (J. M. Johnson, July 1989)

Indians from Sierra de Tamaulipa Vieja attack villages, Pisones at San Pedro mission. Pisones surviving attack are being sent to Tula to be educated and work as servants. Mentions group of villagers with Indian auxiliaries going after attack party. (A. Dean, Jul 1990)

Travel diaries written by Borica while conducting a military thru 1-18-1791; sends message to subdelegado ordering him to conduct visitas in his jurisdiction; population in Cienaga primarily Indian; condition of Bernardino and Cruz pueblos better than most he has visited; suspends visit to Ysabel due to cold Weather and snow; requests that Lagardo be present in Andres or Bachiniba because he wants to make use of his expertise on Indians; dispatches Garcia as teniente general to Cruz and Bernardino pueblos in order to conduct visitas; sends 4 men to Chihuahua with the visita records for a number of jurisdictions; visited Pueblo de Andres where he named the Indian Domingo Valles teniente general; due to cold Weather horses were not able to continue and had to request new horses and 20 men from Cordero in order to continue in March or April; due to delay relays message to subdelegados in Cosiguriachy prohibiting the suspension of services for the Indians so they won't be affected by his delay; includes in this last order missions run by Franciscans and secular ministers but not those running the missions in Guadalupanos who operate different orders; prohibited as well the pursuit of Indians escaped from missions; visits Pueblo of Nombre de Dios where he meets Cordero and Apache Indian captain Ojos Colorados and Turegoslan discussed the plan to attack the Rancheria of Manta Prieta put sargento Reyes in command of 30 men Charged with the attack; Pueblo of Nombre de Dios made up of two Indian groups Taraumares and ?; named Indian Espinosa teniente general of San Geronimo and gave him guidelines by which to govern; named Juan de Lamas (Indian) as teniente Coronel; letter introducing the diarios de comision from 1-19-1791 thru 2-4-1791; explains that depending on the severity of the cold Weather and the condition of the animals he may have to suspend temporarily the continuation of the visitas; he personally is suffering the effects of the cold Weather; had two Indians from Nombre de Dios and Cuebas pueblos resettled to their towns found on the hacienda de Dolores; gave permission to Indian Juan Nicolas and his family to remain settled in Tulimes despite an absence of twenty years; named teniente Coronel the Indian Andres Conchos de Santa Cruz put him in charge of Tulimes, San Pablo, and San Pedro, found Indian Joseph Cervantes with woman sent her away, found another Indian from Chubica named Antonio, notes how Indians were forced to work the lands of Bustamante instead of their own with the result that they experienced food shortages, also used Indians as cooks, water carriers, and sweepers in weekly rotations without pay and giving them only meals, Borica prohibits this from occurring again, names Berroteran as teniente general, notes abundance of corn in jurisdiction of Chihuahua, receives information from subdelegado of Batopilas on naming of Indian Jose Julian as teniente general de Navagame. (O. Velez, March 1989)