1700. Carta de fray Manuel de Zúñiga, religioso de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, para su padre Bartolomé de Zúñiga, carpintero.

Letter from Fray Manuel de Zúñiga, a religious from Our Lady of La Merced, to his father Bartolomé de Zúñiga, a carpenter.

The author writes to his father Bartolomé de Zúñiga, whom he does not know, asking him to meet in Mexico with him and his mother.

The defendant of this case is Bartolomé de Zúñiga, alias José de Bartolomé de Zúñiga y Herrera, who is a carpenter and a native to Ciudad de Mexico. He was accused of bigamy for getting married twice: first to María Manuela de Mesa, with whom he had a son named Manuel de Zúñiga, and later to Josefa Gertrudis López. The plaintiff is Rodrigo Muñoz de Herrera, a parish priest of the Parish of Santa Cruz in Puebla de los Ángeles.

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