Finding aid for the Mexican hacienda manuscripts 0541
Diann Benti
USC Libraries Special Collections
2022 August
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Mexican hacienda manuscripts
Identifier/Call Number: 0541
Physical Description:
4.69 Linear Feet
7 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1673-1913
Abstract: This collection contains various handwritten record books and copies of legal and financial documents related to haciendas
in Mexico, chiefly dating from the 17th to 19th centuries. The items concern a variety of topics including real estate, legal
issues, boundary disputes, property and estate inventories, financial accounts reflecting income sources and debts, and issues
related to indigenous peoples.
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various handwritten record books and copies of legal and financial documents related to haciendas
in Mexico, chiefly dating from the 17th to 19th centuries. The items concern a variety of topics including real estate, legal
issues, boundary disputes, property and estate inventories, financial accounts reflecting income sources and debts, and issues
related to indigenous peoples.
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items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
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Preferred Citation
[Box/folder no. or item name], Mexican hacienda manuscripts, Collection no. 0541, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American
Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received from various sources. Acquisition information noted at the item level when available.
Processing Information
This collection is not fully processed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Haciendas -- Mexico -- Archival resources
Mexico -- History -- Archival resources
Property records
Account books
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
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