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Nashville Colony Register

  • Map/Doc

    94253

  • Collection

    Historical Volumes

  • Subjects

    Bound Volume Mexican Texas

  • Height x Width

    16.5 x 12.0 inches

    41.9 x 30.5 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.