Archivo Municipal de Hidalgo del Parral. located in the town of Parral in southern Chihuahua. The colonial section of the archive contains a large portion of the 17th and early 18th Century documents of the missing archive of Nueva Viscaya (the old Sonora - American South West territories). See article by Robert West in Handbook of Latin American Studies. The University of Arizona has the collection on microfilm (MCF #318) and comprises 158 reels covering the 17th C. Subjects include military reports, administrative activities, mining operations, protocol, cicvil and criminal court cases etc. All in Spanish. There is an index of legajos 1632 - 1749. Buena Suerte.
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