Description

Grant by Don Gastón de Peralta, Viceroy, of a sitio land for cattle ranch to Don Fernando de Portugal.

Title/description created by Clevy Lloyd Strout, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Tulsa, 1962.

Description

Grant by the President and Oidores of the Real Audiencia of a grant of land to Juan Rodriguez Gamarra.

Title/description created by Clevy Lloyd Strout, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Tulsa, 1962.

Description

Grant by Viceroy Don Luis de Velasco of a sitio for a cattle ranch to Antonio de Nava.

Title/description created by Clevy Lloyd Strout, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Tulsa, 1962.

Scope and Contents

Land grant of Bounty Land to Instan-ya Warrior for service under Captain Lewis Durants Company in the Choctaw Volunteers War 1812.

Scope and Contents

Land grant to Cun-oon-tam-be, signed by President James Polk, under 14th Artilce of Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Most of these documents pertain to the founding and settling of the Colony of Georgia. There is a most interesting letter with an account of the sea voyage of the "Anne" with General James Oglethorpe and 120 settlers for Georgia, including homely facts about health, food and activities of the passengers and their leaders. Another paper tells of General Oglethorpe's handling of attempted mutiny at St. Andrews Fort. Also...

Collection Overview The Spanish Colonial Manuscripts document over three centuries of history related to New Spain and its northern provinces in the Americas. The collection consists of Inquisition records, civil suits and trials, trials of enslaved and Indigenous persons, Cortés family suits and documents, civil and government matters, ecclesiastical matters, exploration and missionization, Indigenous relations/Nahuatl manuscripts, and royal correspondences. A key focus of the collection centers on Mexico City...