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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Viceregal grant of land to Diego Sánchez

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Title

  • Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Viceregal grant of land to Diego Sánchez

Names

  • Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain

Created / Published

  • Mexico, June 5, 1564

Headings

  • -  Latin America--History
  • -  New Spain--Charters, grants, privileges
  • -  Property
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  The Viceroy grants to Diego Sánchez, vecino of the town of San Felipe, a site for an estancia for small livestock along the road from San Felipe to Zacatecas at the foot of the hill of El Fuerte by a lake which has water during the rainy season. Juan Sánchez de Alanis had inspected the site and informed the Viceroy that it would not interfere with the rights of anyone else. During the first six years he could not sell or alienate it to anyone except to vecinos of the town; afterward he could sell it to whomever he wished, provided it was not to a church or an ecclesiastical person. (There are some irregularities in this grant which justify a suspicion that it may be fraudulent.)

Source Collection

  • Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1877

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Chicago citation style:

Luis De Velasco, Viceroy Of New Spain. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Viceregal grant of land to Diego Sánchez. Mexico, June 5, 1564. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-06200/.

APA citation style:

Luis De Velasco, V. O. N. S. (1564) Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Viceregal grant of land to Diego Sánchez. Mexico, June 5. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-06200/.

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Luis De Velasco, Viceroy Of New Spain. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Viceregal grant of land to Diego Sánchez. Mexico, June 5, 1564. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-06200/>.