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Documents Relating to Missions in Chihuahua and Sonora (Mexico)

1698 to 1798
MS 180
Collection Guide

Photocopies of original holograph manuscripts accompanied by Spanish transcriptions and English translations by Campbell W. Pennington. Includes Relación de la fundación y aumento, y estado presente de estas dos misiones, Nabogame y Baburigame, de letra del Padre Benito Rinaldini, 1763? (accompanied by a list of missions in Chihuahua and Sonora); Estado de esta visitacion de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Norogáchic hasta la presente visita del Padre Visitador General Joseph de Herrera, 1698; Derrotero cierto para ir de este Janos al Moqui.

Included materials:
Manuscript
Subject Area:
Religion
Mexico
Mexican
Collection Area:
Borderlands

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