Records of the San Miguel Almolonga Hacienda and Sugar Mill
Scope and Contents
Legal and official documents and correspondence pertaining to land tenure and use of several properties in Veracruz Llave, Cuautla (Morelos), and Mexico City. Most of the documents relate to San Miguel Almolonga hacienda and sugar mill, Rancho de Santa Cruz, and Tecuan y Tepetates, and span the period 1572 to 1911. San Miguel Almolonga and Santa Cruz records were no longer kept separately after 1781. Also in the collection are documents about properties in the municipalities of Yecuatla, Colipa, and Misantla (Veracruz Llave) from 1889 to 1941; properties in Cuautla, Morelos (1942-1944); and a beauty salon in Mexico City (1946). Included are land grants, titles, sales and purchase agreements, writs which expedite the eviction of Indigenous peoples and other inhabitants, wills, and other documents of ownership transfer; inventories (some with lists of slaves by name, age, relationship, and appraised value); judicial papers and records of mortgage and land disputes; requests, licenses and permits to celebrate Mass, utilize Indian labor, and kill cattle for food; official orders; and a small number of financial documents.
The papers are in Spanish, with a few items in Nahuatl.
Dates
- Creation: 1572-1946
Language of Materials
Nahuatl languages, Spanish
Access Restrictions
Unrestricted.
Use Restrictions
Standard copyright restrictions apply.
Historical Note
Almolonga, Jalapa province, Veracruz Llave, Mexico, was a native village before the seventeenth century. Through a series of confiscations, evictions, land grants, and purchases, the village apparently ceased to exist and was replaced by the hacienda and sugar mill, San Miguel Almolonga. Sugar cane was being planted on the land before 1602, and in 1608 the viceroy granted permission to hacienda owner Carlos de Sámano y Quiñones to construct the sugar mill. In 1781 San Miguel Almolonga and a neighboring property, the Rancho de Santa Cruz, were joined through purchase by Felipe Montes de Guevara. In 1894 an adjoining property, Tecuan y Tepetates, was annexed to the hacienda under the ownership of Francisco de Paula César.
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Abstract
Legal and official documents and correspondence pertaining to land tenure and use of several properties in Veracruz Llave, Cuautla (Morelos), and Mexico City, chiefly relating to San Miguel Almolonga hacienda and sugar mill, Rancho de Santa Cruz, and Tecuan y Tepetates, spanning the years 1572 to 1911.
Arrangement
Two series organized by chronological period:
- 1572-1782
- 1782-1946
and in subseries by subjects.
Acquisition Information
Information of acquisition method not available.
Existence and Location of Copies
The papers are also available on microfilm.
Processing Information
The Records of the San Miguel Almolonga Hacienda and Sugar Mill were described by the Benson Latin American Collection's Mexican Archives Project in March 1994.
Prepared by the Mexican Archives Project November 1994. (Item list added October 1995.)
Topical
- Almolonga (Veracruz Llave, Mexico)--History--Sources
- Haciendas--Mexico--Veracruz Llave--History--Sources
- Indigenous peoples of Mexico--Veracruz Llave--History--Sources
- Land tenure--Mexico--History--Sources
- Rancho de Santa Cruz (Veracruz Llave, Mexico)--Records
- San Miguel Almolonga Hacienda (Verazruz Llave, Mexico)--Records
- Sugar factories--Mexico--Veracruz Llave--History--Sources
- Title
- San Miguel Almolonga Hacienda and Sugar Mill:
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Subtitle
- An Inventory of its Records at the Benson Latin American Collection
- Author
- Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
- Date
- 2001
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- July 29, 2002: Edited with XMetaL3 by Bob Stewart according to instructions in Editing TARO EAD Finding Aids with XMetaL.
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- 2021 April: Edited by Carla O. Alvarez to fix compliance check errors to prepare for the migration to new TARO website.
- 2021 November: Edited by Devon Murphy to update control access terms and formatting based on the TARO Control Access List.
- 2025 July: Revised by Ryan Sullivant to fix validation errors prior to ingestion into ArchivesSpace.
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin Texas 78712 United States
(512) 495-4578
bensonspecialcollections@austin.utexas.edu