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Wavel's [Wavell's] Register of Families

  • Map/Doc

    94252

  • Collection

    Historical Volumes

  • Subjects

    Bound Volume Mexican Texas

  • Height x Width

    13.2 x 9.2 inches

    33.5 x 23.4 cm

  • Medium

    paper, bound volume

  • Comments

    Mexican colonization laws required that ayuntamientos record the names, places of origin, ages, occupations, and marital statuses of all foreign colonists. Although the law was not uniformly enforced, several registers kept by Texas empresarios have survived, providing biographical information.