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Macedo (Pablo) Collection of Mexican Notarial, Mining and Colonial Documents
MSS 0035
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Pablo Macedo Collection of Mexican Notarial, Mining and Colonial Documents
Creator:
Macedo, Pablo
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0035
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear feet
(1 archives box)
Date (inclusive): 1600 - 1908
Abstract: The collection contains 17th century Mexican colonial documents relating to land tenure in the Itzmiquilpa region of Mexico;
inspection reports from Mexican mines dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries; two papal documents, dated ca. 1805
and 1811; a handwritten supplement to a manual of Mexican agriculture, dated 1869; and an autograph letter signed by Pablo
Macedo in 1908. The materials are written in Spanish. They relate largely to Mexican legal matters and mining interests, although
other subjects are represented.
Languages:
Spanish; Castilian
.
9 documents from this collection have item-level catalog records and can be found by searching the call number "MSS 35" in
the online Library catalog.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 17th century Mexican colonial documents relating to land tenure in the Itzmiquilpa region of Mexico;
inspection reports from Mexican mines dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries; two papal documents, dated ca. 1805
and 1811; a handwritten supplement to a manual of Mexican agriculture, dated 1869; and an autograph letter signed by Pablo
Macedo in 1908. The materials are written in Spanish. They relate largely to Mexican legal matters and mining interests, although
other subjects are represented.
Arranged in four series: 1) LETTER FROM PABLO MACEDO, 2) MINING DOCUMENTS, 3) NOTARIAL DOCUMENTS, and 4) MISCELLANY.
Pablo Macedo y González Saravia was born in Mexico City on February 1, 1851. His father may have been Mariano Macedo (d. 1869),
a minister in the government of General Mariano Arista. A disciple of Gabino Barreda (1818-1881), Pablo Macedo became a lawyer
and served as a professor of political economy at the Escuela de Leyes (School of Law). He was the author of
La evolución mercantil; Comunicaciones y obras públicas; La Hacienda pública: tres monografías que dan idea de una parte de
la evolución económica de México
(Mexico: J. Bollesca, 1905). He died in Spain on December 25, 1918.
Pablo Macedo Collection of Mexican notarial, mining and colonial documents, MSS 35. Special Collections & Archives, UC San
Diego.
Based on a letter in the collection from Pablo Macedo, it may be assumed that the materials originally belonged to the Macedo
family, though the date and circumstances of their transfer to UC San Diego is unknown. The materials were originally enclosed
in a rustic leather portfolio and found in the vault of the Mandeville Special Collections Library in 1986. It is possible
the papers were included in one of the many book collections acquired by the Library prior to 1986.
This collection has been digitized.
This collection was digitized in 2016 for inclusion in the Adam Matthew subscription database Frontier Life: borderlands,
settlement & colonial encounters.
Digital copies of this material are intended to support research, teaching, and private study. This work may be used without
prior permission. The original manuscripts for this collection are held by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mines and mineral resources -- Mexico
Land tenure -- Mexico
Haciendas -- Mexico
Macedo, Mariano -- Archives
Macedo, Pablo -- Archives