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Box 1

[Record book of estate inventories, division, and partición of Hacienda Buenavista del Coxo, Opichán, and adjacent lands] 1821-1831

[Record book of estate inventories, division, and partición of Hacienda Buenavista del Coxo, Opichán, and adjacent lands] - USC Digital Library

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased, 1987.

Scope and Contents

This Mexican hacienda manuscript consists of one leather bound volume containing the inventories, division and partition of major landholdings and other property among surviving heirs of Juan Quintero [Romero] according to his testament. The manuscript, prepared in 1823 and first signed at Hacienda Buenavista del Coxo in September 1824 by his brother and testamentary executor Cayetano Quintero [Romero], describes the property as it was in 1821 at the death of Juan Quintero, with additions to the manuscript up to 1831. The two male figures in the first illustration are presumed to be Juan and Cayetano Quintero, principal co-owners of the haciendas and other properties described in the manuscript. Illustrations, maps, and possibly much of the text, measurements and financial accounts, of the haciendas, were created by J.A.Q, or José Antonio Quintero, brother of Juan and Cayetano. The largest and most opulent of the properties described in the manuscript is the Hacienda Buenavista del Coxo [cited on recent maps as the ex-Hacienda del Cojo], with a detailed inventory of its houses, equipment, crops, servants, cattle and other livestock, coaches, silver objects, furniture and a chapel with sacred objects and images. The document also contains detailed measurements of all property boundaries and areas, estate inventories and valuations, active and passive debts, funeral expenses, division and partition of land holdings and allocations of the properties among Juan's brothers, his wife María Gertrudis Barverena (sic.), their eldest son Rafael Quintero y Barverena (sic.) and his two other sons, two daughters and two grandchildren. Numerous other individuals are mentioned in the document, with signatures of their accountant and witnesses from the Barberena family. From the mid-18th century the various haciendas, ranchos, villages, Indian lands, a mission, rivers, streams and other geographic landmarks identified in the manuscript were located in the south eastern region of the province of Nuevo Santander, known today as the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, between the colonial villages of Escandón (founded in 1751, known today as Xicotencatl) and [H]orcasitas (founded in 1749, known today as González) and near the coast of the Seno Mexicano, the present Gulf of Mexico. The manuscript indicates the haciendas' lands were at latitude 22 degrees and longitude 93 degrees (sic., 98) west of Cadiz, Spain.; [research and description provided by Barbara Robinson]; Supplied title. "Ymbenta, División y Partición, 1823" -- spine.

Box 2

[Record book of titles and accounts of the Hacienda of Santa Anna in Tlaxcala, Mexico] 1673-1722

Scope and Contents

A volume containing 16 documents covering the period of 1673-1722 related to the titles and accounts of the Hacienda of Santa Anna in Tlaxcala, Mexico. This item is Volume 2 of a set of record books; Volume 1 is not part of this collection.

Manuscript title page: "Seg'do Quaderno de los Titulos de la Hazienda Nomb'da S'ta Anna Atoyasole que posee el S'or D'n Fran'co Matheo de Luna. Cavallero del Orden de Calatrava, Contador Jubilado de la Real Aud'a y Tribunal de Cuentas de este Reino."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Dorothy Samuel, January 2009.

Box 3, Folder 1

Papeles de la fundación de este colegio [nuestra Señora] de Guadalupe 1833-1834 and undated

Box 3, Folder 2

Don José Miguel Rodríguez, Administrador de la Hacienda de San Antonio es demandado por los vecinos de Aculhuacan sobre el potrero llamado San Pedro 1778

Box 3, Folder 3

Inventario general de la Hacienda de Atenco 1809

Box 3, Folder 4

Inventario y avaluo de la Hacienda de Santa Inés, jurisdicción de Cuautla 1795

Box 3, Folder 5

El Juzgado de Obras PÍas y bienes de difuntos contra la TestamentarÍa poseedora de una casa frontera a la alameda y de la Hacienda de vacas de la Estrella en Mexicalzingo

Box 4, Folder 1

Titulos de la Hacienda De Santa Ines Cuautla y Anexos 1703-1913

Scope and Contents

A volume containing handwritten and typescript real estate and legal records related to the Hacienda de Santa Inez Cuautla.

Spine title: "Titulos de la Hda De Sta, Ines Cuautla y Anexos / Propiedad del Sr. Don Ricardo Hernandez, Ano De 1913, Tomo I"

Box 5, Folder 2

Testimonio de la causa formada a Don Pedro de Jesus Piza 1812-1814

Scope and Contents

A volume containing approximately 150 certified handwritten copies of documents related to a case against Pedro de Jesus Piza, a tax administrator in Acapulco, including evidence and ancillary documents. Piza was accused of having formulated a plan with José María Morelos and the documents contain information about insurgents and the progress of the Mexican War of Independence movement in the area around Acapulco and to the south.

Box 5, Folder 3

Acueducto de los remedios 1764-1950

Scope and Contents

A volume containing handwritten documents from 1764-1765 related to building projects including the building of an aqueduct for Nuestra Señora de los Remedios and the development of a bullfighting ring at La Plazuela de San Diego. The volume also includes typescript transcriptions and a 1950 newspaper article.

Box 5, Folder 4

Testimonio del Pueblo de Santa Maria la Alta 1816

Box 5, Folder 5

Arrendamiento de la Hacienda del Hospital en Cuautla 1819

Box 6, Folder 1

[File of Hacienda documents] 19th century

Box 6, Folder 2

Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Indias Donzellas de esta ciudad 1806-1841

Box 6, Folder 3

[Records of la Villa de Carrión Valle de Atrixio] 1758-1759

Scope and Contents

Bound with typescript transcription.

Box 6, Folder 4

El Gobernador y República de esta Cabecera de San Juan de los Llanos contra Francisco Nexapa vecino de Zacatlan, por sonsacador de los indios. [Legal documents in case against Francisco de Naxara] 1636

Scope and Contents

Handwritten copy of legal documents beginning: "El Gobernador y Republica de esta Cabecera de San Juan de los Llanos contra Francisco Naxara vecino de Zacatlan, por sonsacador de los indios."

Box 6, Folder 5

Expediente sobre los gravámenes que padecen los indios en las Cofradías y demás devociones que tienen con el fin de que se les conceda espera en el pago de tributos 1786

Box 6, Folder 6

Expediente sobre remate del Rancho de Teguanaque perteneciente al comun de naturales de Zacatlán de las Manzanas 1799

Box 6, Folder 7

Litigio del Colegio de Porta Celi por una corriente de agua 1819-1826

Box 6, Folder 8

Borrador del estado actual de los sitios de la Hacienda de Peñas, arrendam tos que deven y mapa de ellos 1822-1845

Scope and Contents

This manuscript contains 12 pages listing 34 renters of Hacienda de Peñas land, chiefly through 1822, with some additional information added through 1845. There is also a hand-colored folded map of the Oaxacan coast showing the rental sites.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Howard Karno Books.

Box 7

Extracto de los títulos del Ingenio de Santa Ines 1795

Box 7

Avaluos de la Hacienda de Santa Ines 1796

Box 7

Inventario de la Hacienda de San Antonio 1802

Box 7

Quejas de operario del Rancho de Dolores 1838

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