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- Catalog: Monterrey Metropolitan City (second epoch) Section: Wills and Estates Series: Wills Title: Will of Doña Francisca Javiera de Elizondo Place: Estancia de San Nicolas Date: Feb 17,1785 Pages: 3 Volume: 19, File: 1, Page: 261 NO 131, Notes: (The annotations follow the first should only have been conducted the others escaped from Monterrey, Cadereyta, Valle del Pilon Linares and from here Labradores).
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Testament of Doña Francisca Javiera de Elizondo, citizen of Monterrey, and resident at Estancia de San Nicolas; legitimate daughter of Bartolome de Elizondo and Doña Javiera Gonzalez, both deceased. She arranges to be buried in the city parish. She declares to have been married and veiled with Don Faustino Lozano. Children: Juan Jose, Maria Gertrudis, Maria Teresa and Ignacia Lozano. Assets: She brought to the marriage 14 hours of water rights with her corresponding land, at the farm of San Juan Bautista, of Valle de las Salinas. She also declares as her assets, the part of land that she inherited from her parents in the summer pasture of La Popa, jurisdiction.
of that one Valle and "another small part of land Hacienda de San Francisco del Potrero, in the same jurisdiction. She also has a part of summer pasture at Hacienda de Santa Teresa de las Higueras. She declares that she also took to the marriage 50 goats, 25 lambs, a broiler, estimated at 24 pesos and 30 pesos that was court awarded to her for a Mulatto slave, named Francisca. "which by having it on the property for our service, contributed to my husband thirty pesos more". She also declares as assets her three slave specimens, named Jose Cayetano, Maria Juana and Maria Candida; children of Francisca, who married "with our blessing" Miguel Flores. Also hers a harness mule and a broken ox. She arranges that the water and territories of San Juan Bautista are rented for three pesos per year, so that three masses are said annually for the souls of herself and her husband. She declares that their children already are married; Juan Jose, to Doña Maria Benedicta Martinez; Maria Gertrudis, " already deceased", to Jose Maria Gonzalez, "who left offspring"; Maria Teresa to Jose Lorenzo de la Garza y Guerra; and Maria Ignacia to Eugene de Abrego… Executors: her husband and in second and third places to Juan Jose Lozano, their son and to Jose Lorenzo, her son-in-law. Appears before Francisco Bruno Barerra, Alcalde Ordinario de segundo voto. Witnesses were: Jose Antonio Gongora, Juan Jose Cantu and Jose Antonio de la Garza. In attendance were: Pedro Manuel de Llano and Jose Alejandro Gonzalez.
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