Prisoners (Transportation)

Concerns Tixerina's petition of two months of his salary in order to get back to Nuevo Reyno de Leon after having transported Perrent as prisoner to Mexico City. (R. Gomez, September 1989)

Series of documents concerning establishment of postal service between Durango and Chihuahua. Arrest of military official. Transportation of Indian prisoners. Reorganization of missions and haciendas personnel. Reports on Apache attacks and potential threat to crops and weapons in storage from Indian rebels. Traitor Indians guides leading attacks against haciendas and presidios. Prosecution of illegal gambling house leaser.

Administrative documents primarily from governador Barri to virrey. Ff 20 contains interesting table of Indian hostilities from 1771-1776; lists numbers of dead and persons taken captive, ranches and haciendas depopulated, and cattle robbed from various administrative units of Nueva Vizcaya. Ff 54 contains a table of wine and aguardiente production in some jurisdictions. Many documents deal with conduct of prisoners to capital and expenses prisoners had to pay for said conduct. Teniente Yarto informed of Barri's death in February, 1784, and continues on as interim governor. August, 1784 Velazquez accepts governorship. (D. Marksz, March 1987).