For a complete administrative history and chronology of the Presidio de Janos, see
Correspondence, reports, financial documents, records of marriages and baptisms, decrees and other official documents, and assorted materials pertaining to the history of Janos and the military and civilian persons within its jurisdiction, including the Apaches and other Indians; and to administration of the presidio.
Correspondence includes letters of Juan Gutiérrez de la Cueva, José Antonio Rengel, Pedro de Nava, Diego de Borica, Teodoro Caballero de Croix, Antonio Bonilla, Juan Bautista Perú, Narciso de Tapia, Hugo Oconor, Jacobo Ugarte y Loyola, Antonio Cordero y Bustamente, Pedro de Mata Biñolas, Antonio Narbona, Nicolás de Almanza, Nemesio Salcedo, Simón El'as González, José Mar'a de Tovar, José Ronquillo, Cristóbal Dom'nguez, Francisco Garc'a Conde, and Roque de Medina. Also included are official circular letters.
Reports pertain to reviews of the troops, equipment, and supplies; issuance of rations; Indians living in the peace establishment; criminals imprisoned at the presidio; and military encounters and other events. Financial documents include both presidio and individual accounts of income and expenses. Among the assorted documents are instructions and orders, regulations, inventories of military and church properties, diaries, records of military service, censuses, and lists of school students.
The physical extent of the records is nine linear feet. The materials are in Spanish; their bulk dates are 1706-1858. The records have been partially microfilmed. This document is a partial calendar of documents dated 1707-1828, and is also available in Rare Books Reference.
The Janos Presidio records were arranged in chronological order and divided into folders and sections of folders by earlier library staff. In July 1954 Frederick M. Woods completed a partial calendar of the documents. The Mexican Archives Project staff completed the processing of the collection in April 1995.
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Presidio de San Felipe y Santiago de Janos Records, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.
Material taken from the Presidio of Janos, 1787, 1788. The date of the material is listed first, then the author of the material, underlined, and if a letter, to whom addressed. Next comes a description of the type of material, names of people and places contained therein, and the number of leaves in brackets. The place given in parenthesis is the place the paper is written. The page is given at the extreme right of this index.
By:
Frederick M. woods.
Aug. 26, 1953
Material taken from the Presidio of Janos, 1789. The date of the material is listed first, then the author of the material, underlined, and if a letter, to whom addressed. Next comes a description of the type of material, names of people and places contained therein, and the number of leaves in brackets. The place given in parentheses is the place the paper is written. The page is given at the extreme right of this index.
Material taken from the Presidio of Janos, 1790. The date of the material is listed first, then the author of the material, underlined, and if a letter, to whom addressed. Next comes a description of the type of material, names of people and places contained therein, and the number of leaves in brackets. The place given in parentheses is the place the paper is written. The page is given at the extreme right of this index.
By: Frederick M. Woods
Aug. 31, 1953
[Note in printed guide].
By: Frederick M. Woods.
Sept. 3, 1953
Material taken from the Presidio of Janos, 1791. The date of the material is listed first, then author underlined, description of type of material, names of people and places contained therein, and the number of leaves in brackets. The place given in parentheses is the place the paper is written. The page is given at the extreme right of this index after the dots.
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By Frederick M. Woods
June 15, 1954
Frederick M. Woods
June 15, 1954
Material taken from the Presidio of Janos, 1792. The date of the material is listed first, then the author of the material, underlined, and if a letter, to whom addressed. Next comes a description of the type of material, names of people and places contained therein, and the number of leaves in brackets. The place given in parentheses is the place the paper is written. The page is given at the extreme right of this index.
Frederick M. Woods
By Frederick M. Woods
June 17, 1954
Material taken from the Presidio of Janos, 1793. The date of the material is listed first, then the author of the material, underlined, and if a letter, to whom addressed. Next comes a description of the type of material, names of people and places contained therein, and the number of leaves in brackets. The place given in parentheses is the place the paper is written. The page is given at the extreme right of this index.
Frederick M. Woods
June 17, 1954