On the said day, month and year, I,
the Alcalde Mayor being at the present home of doña Maria Catarina Pino, former wife of the deceased, for the purpose
of making this inventory, should and did order that the said doña show the property, real and
personal, which was in existence at the time of the death of her deceased
husband, and what there is now; with which she complied in they are in the
following form.
First one tract of land in the
said place of Los Lunas, the boundaries which are on the North lands of Los
Lentes, on the South lands of Bernardo Padilla, on the East the Rio del Norte,
on the West the Rio Puerco. I asked the said doña for the documents thereof she told me that the same are not in
her possession and that she had never seen them.
She declares that the said tract,
according to the testament of her deceased father-in-law, don Domingo Luna, belongs only to two heirs, who are her deceased
husband in the deceased Vicente de Luna
and that from said tract 200 varas which the said to heirs sold to Juaquin
Castillo should be left out.
She declares that she has 13
cornfields, small and the large one, in the said tract of land, of which, when
her deceased husband died, only three were broken, and 10 have been broken in
her time, which cornfield or irrigated by the acequia which the said two heirs
dug, there is also another piece for a garden.
She declares that the time of her
husband’s death he had only three rooms of the adobe house which had been
divided between the said two heirs upon the death of her father-in-law and that
at the present time she has added to the said rooms - two more and that one
lacks only the roof and that half of the porch belonging to her former room.
She declares that after the death
of her husband she bought in the same town to small houses, one containing two
rooms and the other one a house and lot.
She declares this property that
remained in existence at the time of the death of her husband, five pictures of
three hand widths painted in all colors with their frame and one infant Jesus
and sculpture of three fingers wide; one hoe of medium weight; one plow with
equal equipment; one medium-sized kettle and one iron griddle, both very old;
one mortar; one spit; two benches; one pair of trousers of Scarlet cloth and
one jacket of black Cholula cloth; one old cloak of Queretaro cloth; one pair
of useless blunderbusses, one branding iron; one horse and one mule; one cart;
four oxen; two cows with calves; four bulls; two years old, eight calves of
one-year-old.
She declares that of the sheep
there were 600 breeding ewes and 412 lambs born in that year.
On said day month and year, as no
other property was shown to have been left at the time of the death of the
aforesaid Antonia de Luna except what is mentioned above, I proceeded to
examine was in existence at the present time. I certify, Manuel de Arteaga (rubric).
On 16 June 1784, I the Alcalde,
being in the dwelling house of doña Pino, widow of Antonia de Luna, for the
purpose of following this inventory, should and did order her to show the
property real and personal which is in existence as follows.
One tract of land in the form
stated above. 800 varas of cultivated land in the 13 cornfields mentioned
above, irrigated by the acequia madre.
One house with four rooms and another one without a roof, with four
single doors and one double door, two with two locks, and three without. Also
three adobe rooms in the town. Five pictures of three handbreadths painted in
oil colors, with their frames. One Infant Jesus, three fingers wide with this
little niche in glass case. One old copper kettle. One mortar and one iron
spit. Two spits, I mean two benches. One pair of blunderbuss’s out of order.
One branding iron. The oxen. Two cows with calves and three without, and three calves’
one-year-old. 305 head of breeding sheep. 199 lambs of this year. One house in
the Villa of Santa Fe, which consists of six rooms and two porches which cost
300 pesos; 210 pesos have been paid in the balance of 90 pesos remain.
©Henrietta M. Christmas
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