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Hencarta Order

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1339
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed order in Spanish. The document is for the paymaster of Nueva Viscaya to give all soldiers of the province complete payments. The item reprimands the actions of Colonel Juan Felipe Oroses who was making deductions on the soldier's salaries as punishment for the desertion of 17 men of the garrison at Cerro Gordol.

Dates: 1714

Balthazar de Zuniga order

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1353
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed order in Spanish. The item is an order to the treasury officials of Zacatecas to deduct from the presidios of El Paso, Cuencame, Sonora, and Casas Grandes the salaries of ten men each, as a contribution to the defense of the frontier. The order was signed at Mexico on January 4, 1717.

Dates: 1617