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Francisco· Casanova, 18 years of age, Maria Antonio, 15, Jose de los Dolores, 8, Anacleto, 7, and Juan Diaz, 5. Her property consisted of 25 tame horses, 28 colts, 100 milch cows, 62 heifers, 44 bullocks, 350 sheep, 40 hogs, 7 yoke of oxen, 4 mules, 1 stud, 1 jackass, and 3 carts. In addition to her family there were a number of servants and tenants on the ranch. Among her helpers were bachelor Nicolas Cantu, a 30-year- old native of Cadereita, Nuevo Leon, who had his own horse, and a cowboy from La Bahia, Matias Pena, 21, who was married to 22-year- old Josefa Valdez of Santa Rosa. He possessed 3 horses. A Lipan, only 19 years old, Francisco Perez, was employed to break horses. From Monterrey had come Marcelo Barcota to tend the sheep, and from Chi- huahua, Miguel Herrera, the 22-year-old caretaker. He and his 30-year- old wife, Perfecta Diaz, of Bexar, had 6 cows and 9 bullocks. The two tenants living on the ranch, Jose Leal, a soldier, and his wife, Maria Josefa Casanova, a native of Bexar, possessed 20 cows and 4 bullocks.u Rancho del Sabinito was owned by Felix Estrada, a native of Boca de Leones, Nuevo Leon. This 35-year-old rancher was married to a girl of 19, Josefa Rodriguez, a native of Bexar. Their son, Jose Manuel, was 2 years old. They possessed So milch cows, 30 heifers, 30 bulls and bullocks, 40 calves, 15 tame horses, 24 mares, 1 stud, and 3 mules. Their servants were: Siriaco Gonzalez, a 55-year-old cowboy from Chihuahua, and Rafael Gonzalez, another cowboy from La Mota, Nuevo Leon, aged 27. Estrada's mother-in-law, Luisa Guerrero, lived with her 18-year-old son, Jose Maria, on the same ranch. This 80-year-old native of Bexar had been widowed by the death of her husband, Salvador Rodriguez. She had two servants, an Indian slave named Manuela Perez, 90, and a cowboy from Mayapil named Luis Fernando, 40 years old. She had 60 milch cows, 20 heifers, 30 calves, 18 bulls, 9 horses, s yoke of oxen, and 2 carts. Miguel Flores, a native of Monclova, was the owner of Rancho de San Juan Nepomuceno located at Los Arroyos. He lived on the ranch with his wife, Maria Antonia de Abrego, who was also a native of Coahuila. They had five children: Maria Gertrudis, Maria Antonia, Maria de Jesus, Miguel, and Jose Francisco, the eldest of whom was 11 years of age, and the youngest, 3. He had 40 milch cows, 70 bullocks, 30 bulls, 50 heifers, 27 yearlings, 26 horses, 26 mares, 100 sheep and goats, 6 yoke of oxen, 1 stud, 1 mule, and 2 carts. His helpers were
32 Nacogdoc!les Arc!lives, XV, pp. 118-12:.1.
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