1668. Carta de Francisco Chacón, oficial de platero, para su esposa Mariana de Acuña.

Letter from Francisco Chacón, a silversmith, to his wife Mariana de Acuña.

The author tells his wife how much he misses her.

The defendant in this process is Francisco Chacón, a silversmith native to Malaga and resident in Sonora (Mexico). He was accused of bigamy for getting married twice: first in Jalisco (Mexico) to Catalina de Mezquita and later in Sinaloa (Mexico) to Mariana de Acuña.

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