Sinaloa Jesuit reports
Sinaloa Jesuit Reports Table of Contents.
Collection area: Borderlands
Collection dates: circa 1610-1627
Photocopies of typed transcriptions of 32 reports and letters, 1610 to 1623 or 1627. Nine of them are signed by Captain Diego Martínez de Hurdaide; another is a "traslado," signed by Hurdaide, of a letter from Padre Rector Cristóbal de Villalta to Padre Tomás Bacilio, 1622. The other documents are unsigned. Named addressees include Visitor Padre Hernando de Villafañe, Marqués de Salinas, Provincial Padre [Juan] Laurencio, and Oidor Chaves. Unnamed addressees are the commander, the viceroy, the governor, the president, the "contador," the treasurer, and the bishop.
Hurdaide was the Mexican-born captain of the presidio of San Felipe from 1598 to 1626, and was in charge of the extension of Spanish and Christian rule in Sinaloa and Sonora. Villalta was a Spanish Jesuit serving at the Yaqui Indian mission, San Ignacio de Torím, from 1619-1623; he was also a Visitor of the northern missions.
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