Re: [ranchos] Convento Franciscano Colotlan

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

Arturo Ramos wrote:

> Prior to the foundation of the parrish of San Luis Obispo in Colotlan 
> c. 1720, the Franciscans ran a convent (monestary) in the city, where 
> marriages and baptisms were performed.  Apparently, there are archives 
> of the convent, as they are quoted in Esteban Valdes Salazar's book 
> Historia de Totatiche, Tomo II... which by the way is invaluable, since 
> it has a transcritption of the entire 1770 census
was that the census for the Totatiche area only? or did it include Colotlan?

thanks,

joseph

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> transcriptions of the major land transactions that occured in the area 
> through that period, so that one can plot out the ownership of the land 
> and superimpose the residents on each of those plots.
> Does anybody have any information on these Colotlan Franciscan archives?
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