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  1. Noticia

    The one volume contains a census of people, as well as an inventory of goods for some of the missions. The provinces of Baja California, Sonora, Tarahumara, Nayarit, and the former Chinipas are represented; missions of southern Arizona are included within ...

    castanoe - 2021-11-01 16:40

  2. Reyes Report

    The collection includes a typescript translation of report, written by Spanish Franciscan Antonio de los Reyes, on existing conditions in the missions of Sonora administered by the Fathers of the Propagation of the Faith College of the Holy Cross in ...

    castanoe - 2022-03-11 13:44

  3. Relación de las misiones que la compania tiene en el Reyno y Provincias de la Nueva Vizcaya en la Nueva Espana

    Juan Ortiz Zapata was a Jesuit Visitador to the missions in northern Mexico in 1678. This collection contains a photocopy of the Spanish transcription and English translation of the original documents of Zapata’s missions in Reyno and provinces of New ...

    castanoe - 2022-04-13 17:36

  4. Philipp Segesser Papers

    Philipp Segesser was a Jesuit missionary in Sonora, Mexico. The collection contains papers relating to money owed to Segesser while Visitador-General of Sonora, Mexico, by Captain Francisco Xavier de Miranda. Accompanying the papers are supporting records ...

    castanoe - 2022-06-30 16:28

  5. Pedro de Arriquibar Letters

    The collection contains two holograph letters, dated Aug. 6 and Dec. 6, 1796, from Pedro de Arriquibar, chaplain of the Presidio de San Agustín del Tucson, to Bishop Fray Francisco Rouset de Jesus, Diocese of Sonora, Mexico. The letters provide a brief ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-15 12:07

  6. Jacobo Sedelmayr letters and reports

    Letters and reports, from Sedelmayr to Christóbal de Escobar y Llamas, Juan Antonio Balthassar, Philipp Segesser, and Andrés Xavier García, relating to conditions in Pimeria Alta at the missions and surrounding areas. Includes reports on explorations to ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-25 14:24

  7. Report of an Exploration, Written at Mission Dolores, Pimeria A

    The collection contains holograph reports of an expedition made by Eusebio Francisco Kino, a Jesuit missionary, and Father Antonio Leal into southwestern Arizona, known at the time as Pimeria Alta, in 1699. Includes extensive description of the geography, ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-25 17:02

  8. Documents Relating to Missions in Pimeria Alta

    The collection contains two holograph documents concerning supplies for either Mission Guevavi or San Xavier del Bac: a 1733 letter of transmittal for a supply request from Ignacio Xavier Keller, and a 1734 list of supplies needed from Felipe Segesser, ...

    castanoe - 2022-08-01 11:22

  9. Custodia de San Carlos de Sonora

    Francisco Antonio Barbastro (1734-1800) was a Franciscan priest, Father President of the Sonoran missions (1781-1783), and headed the ecclesiastical counteroffensive to Bishop Antonio de los Reyes' plan for the San Carlos "custodia." This ...

    castanoe - 2022-08-05 17:00

  10. Caso sobre la certificacion que se pide cada año al Padre Provincial de la Compana de Jesus, del numero de los religiosos que estan en sus missiones

    The collection contains a two-page manuscript requesting the Padre Provincial to provide certification of the number of religious at the missions, with endorsement by Juan de Ledesma, Diego Diaz de Pangua, Guillermo de Biris, and Francisco Calderon. The ...

    castanoe - 2022-08-12 11:44

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