1689. Carta de Francisco de Ávila para su hermano Lorenzo Ramos de Ávila, arriero.

Letter from Francisco de Ávila to his brother Lorenzo Ramos de Ávila, a muleteer.

The author writes to his brother Lorenzo Ramos de Ávila, wanting to know about his family well-being and giving him several news.

The defendant of this case is Diego Monterroso, a muleteer native to Guatemala. He was accused of bigamy for getting married twice: first in the city of Santa Ana (El Salvador) to Catarina, a tributary Indian; and later to Juana Pacheco, a mixed race native to Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico). Diego Monterroso´s second wife prosecutes him after finding out he was already married. This information is provided to her by Francisco de Ávila through a letter he sends to his brother Lorenzo Ramos de Ávila.

References:

Rocío Sánchez Rubio, Isabel Testón Núñez

El hilo que une. Las relaciones epistolares en el Viejo y en el Nuevo Mundo, siglos XVI-XVIII

Mérida

Universidad de Extremadura

1999