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Surname: Given Name: Nicolás Sex: M
Place of Birth: Date of Birth: Order:
Place of Death: Janos Date of Death: 01/02/1759 Cause of Death:
Race or Tribe: Negro Residence: Janos Title: Pregonero; Esclavo del Bachiller Tomás Antonio Bezerra; Marido de Juana de la Cruz Nieto; Buried in the Janos Presidio Chapel
Place of Service: Burial Place: Janos-in the presidio chapel, in the fifth (last) section Translation:
Notes: He was buried "en el quinto cuerpo de la iglesia con cruz baja." He had been with the Bezerra Nieto family for many years and is recorded as the "pregonero" for the inspection that Antonio Bezerra Nieto had made of the ranches and mines of Sonora in 1718 (see Archivo de Hidalgo de Parral, Auttos de Visita hechos por el Capitan Don Antonio Bezerra Nieto, Año de 1718)

In the said royal presidio on the second day of the month of January in the year 1759, I, the said bachiller, provided church burial with lower cross in the fifth section of the church for Nicolás, a slave of Bachiller Tomás Bezerra. He was married to and living with Juana de la Cruz. He received the holy sacrament of penance for which truth I sign. Josef García Noriega, Royal Chaplain

 
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Event ID: 4492 Relationship: Deceased Event Date: 01/02/1759 View Document A  
 
 
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