Sale agreement for a lot in colonial New Spain

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A four page Spanish language manuscript handwritten in ink describing the sale of a lot in colonial New Spain’s Cuidad de Los Ángeles (today Puebla, Mexico). The first and third page are numbered in the upper right corner. The first and fourth page are stamped with two seals in the upper left corner and three lines of printed text as the heading. The fourth page is blank and there is minor wear around the pages. In the document, Diego Basquez sells the lot to María de la Cruz, a widowed indigenous woman, for 35 common gold pesos (currency). The lot was measured to be 309 varas in length and 15 varas in width (~258.3 meters by ~12.5 meters/ ~847.4 feet by ~41 feet). The document is dated January 19, 1682 and signed by the notary Miguel Garcia Ragosso.

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