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1810. Carta de José Gonçalves Castelhano, foreiro, para Manuel Dias Bravo, alferes e proprietário de terras.

Author(s) José Gonçalves Castelhano      
Addressee(s) Manuel Dias Bravo      
In English

Request letter from José Gonçalves Castelhano, a tenant, to Manuel Dias Bravo, Lieutenant and land owner.

The author asks permission to the addressee to keep farming his land.

The chaplain of Cururupú (Maranhão, Brazil), the Reverend António Vidal Ferreira Pinto, was denounced in 1813 by an enemy of his, the farmer José Gonçalves Castelhano, for a number of crimes. The defendant was accused of living outrageously under the same roof for more than nine years with Faustina Teresa, the wife of the Lieutenant António dos Reis, and with Maria Benedita, a freed slave, as his concubine. He was also accused of being very slow in the administration of the sacraments, and "a refined dealer." He was believed to give shelter to criminal and exiled men, to abuse women, to open other people's letters in order to discover their secrets, and to ask too much money for celebrating baptisms and matrimonies. The plaintiff also complaint about the theft of his ox, which trespassed the lands of the accused and was killed by him.

At the end of a criminal case that lasted six years, the Reverend António Vidal Ferreira Pinto was found not guilty.

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Sor Alferes Manoel Dias Bravo Caza 29 de Ab de 1810
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