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- Catalog: Monterrey Metropolitan City (second epoch)
Section: Wills and Estates
Series: Wills
Title: Will of Doña Juana Flores de Abrego
Place: Monterrey
Date: May 15,1759
Pages: 4
Volume: 16, File: 1, Page: 113
VTO NO 39, Notes:
Document:
Testament of Doña Juana Flores de Abrego, originally from the town of
Saltillo and citizen of this city; legitimate daughter of Bernardo Flores de
Abrego and Doña Josefa Fernandez, both deceased, citizens of that town.
She arranges to be buried in the parish church of this city, shrouded with
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the habit of San Francisco with mass and vigil, according to the hour.
Declares she had been married to Juan Guerra. Children: Clara Maria,
deceased, Josefa, Jose Antonio, Javier, Pedro Alcantara, Juan Jose, Maria
Jacinta, Leonor, Luisa, Bernardo, her son "with respect to his confidence
that she had with those that administer with the effectiveness and purity
that accustoms, keeping the proceeds from them". At the request of
Bernardo she changed the administration and put it in the care of Ignacio,
her son, and of Antonio Ladron de Guevara, her son-in-law. Ignacio took
nothing into account, "so that he declares the distribution and what was
consumed because at present to me done of them exist anymore and I have
not enjoyed them, nor from their production have I been maintained from
whose cause I have suffered what God knows and I omit to say. She
declares that what is recorded, Ignacio has dissipated, is not all of what
exists. She declares that of the assets of her husband 300 pesos ought to
belong to Pedro de Alcantara, their son and to pay him, sold in the village of
Coahuila a slave named Rosa and also was given 5 tame mules to ride
bareback, for which the freight has not been paid. That Pedro took without
her consent 18 mares with her horse, two cows and three bulls, besides
pictures. She asks that he be put in charge of all of it. Orders that Juan Jose
her son be charged the rent of an exceptional kettle, at 12 pesos per year
counting from 1749; and to Jose Antonio her son a cow and 12 heifers, 2
mules and a male, " that he took without my will nor order", of which Javier
Ruiz her steward warned her. She declares that Javier, now deceased, also
dissipated several assets of her husband. She asks that Antonio Ladron de
Guevara, her son-in-law, take charge of 3 tame mules and 12 cows "taken
from the ranch": and to Jose Ramon Guerra, her nephew, the rent for 14
years of 2 tame mules. She asks that Pedro de Ayala, her son-in-law, be
charged for a yoke of matched oxen. She asks that Juan Jose her son be
charged the annual rents for the corn of the farm in the valley of Guajuco,
that belongs to her after the death of her grandsons, children of Doña
Josefa Guerra. Executors, Bernardo Guerra, her son, Pedro Prieto, her son-
in-law. Appears before Sargento Mayor Antonio de Urresti, Alcalde
Ordinario de primer voto. Witnesses were: Antonio de Cossio, Joaquin
Fernandez Vallejo and Jose Ignacio Treviño, who signed for the grantor
who said she did not know to. In attendance were: Manuel de Larralde
Francisco de Rivera y Castro.
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Abt 1675 - Abt 1759 (84 years)
