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- Catalog: Monterrey Metropolitan City (second epoch) Section: Legal
affairs Series: Receipts provided Title: Is given Place: Not specified Date:
Jan 1,1660 Pages: 0 Volume: 9, File: 11, Page: 10, Notes: This file is
physically in Civil Branch but belongs with notary documents
Document:
Juan de Zavala, citizen of this town, grants that, "inasmuch as this
concluded arrangement to marry as ordered by Santa Madre Church, with
Doña Ana de Sepulveda, legitimate daughter of Anton Garcia and of Doña
Juana de Sepulveda, neighbors who were from city of Nuestra Senora de los
Zacatecas, and today are from this town; and this mother and Sargento
Mayor Jacinto Garcia de Sepulveda, and Caudillo Bernardo Garcia de
Sepulveda, their legitimate brothers… promised to give in dowry to the
aforesaid three thousands four hundred and twenty-five pesos, I grant
receipt in the following form: two thousand nine hundred twenty-five pesos
in a letter of three thousand eight hundred and forty pesos", that is
committed to be satisfied by Don Martin de Zavala, and that come from
"four shod carriages, with their mules, and two slaves to be sold"; 500
pesos more, in household furniture. "And inasmuch as I am aware of the
cleanliness of birth and virtue of this Doña Juana de Sepulveda, who is to
be my wife, and her parents and relatives, and of the benefit I gain with this
marriage, thus by the honor, good form and reputation of the aforesaid one,
being people of noble birth and obligations, I grant that I give… a thousand
pesos of common gold in earnest money as a dowry…" Before Governor
Don Martin de Zavala and Juan de Abrego, Secretary. Witnesses were:
Pedro de Salinas, Rodrigo Ruiz and Juan Maldonado.
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Abt 1620 - Yes, date unknown
