In a nutshell, during this month I’m attempting to gather sufficient primary material to allow for solid reconstruction of Spanish colonial economic and political structures in order to understand the interaction between those structures and the individuals that maintained and changed those structures. Doing so should allow for evaluation of maintenance/creation of tradition.
A variety of sections in the AGN offer useful material, but so far the only sections with extensive details that have not been studied by UWF scholars are Archivo Historico de Hacienda and Historia. In other words, these two have been studied to some extent, and I’ve gathered new material in other sections, but my contribution to understanding of Spanish Pensacola will largely come from these two sections.
Archivo Historico de Hacienda contains financial details. Unless otherwise noted, page counts and dates refer to Windward-specific material: 424 pages of 1734-1735, 134 pages of 1763 New Spain’s Cargo and Datta, 20 pages of 1702, 258 pages of 1730s-1740s, 193 pages of Windward Fleet 1640s-1720s, 29 pages 1703-1722 Extraordinario funds to Windward fleet, 710 pages 1726-1761, 163 pages 1753-1763, and 308 pages 1717-1721. Thus 1702, 1717-1721, and 1734-1735 are gloriously accounted for, but there don’t seem to be any obvious holes in the coverage (total: 2105 pages), but I’ll definitely scan other Royal Caja material to lead to 1763 (another 134 pages).
Historia material I have so far, which includes but not limited to Pensacola: Volume 298 offers 531 pages 1689-1778, Volume 486 includes 787 pages 1752-1755, and Volume 571 has 933 pages 1756-1764. Clear gap here is everything up to 1752, though Volume 298 focuses heavily on seventeenth century, so finding more volumes of 1698-1751 is my #2 priority after finishing 50 volumes of other sections.
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