Santa Clara de Tulillo Hacienda records
Language: spa
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Water rights; Livestock; Jesuits; Real property; Rent; Livestock brands; Land tenure
Description: Two bound volumes containing correspondence, royal decrees, deeds of gift, estate inventories, fiscal accounts, bills of sale, land grants, legal suits and countersuits, mortgage loans, rental agreements, wills and testaments, and other records kept by the Jesuit owners of the hacienda.  Subjects include the acquisition and sale of land, ownership  disputes, property boundaries, water rights, rental of property, agricultural production, livestock and livestock brands, the role of women in the operation of the estate, and relations with the Indians of Mexico.  Neighboring smaller estates and their owners are also mentioned.  Later records relate to the acquisition of the hacienda by Francisco de Arteta y Verganza in 1702 and by Andrés de Peña in 1746.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 1997.

Collection material in Spanish.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.