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lAND OWNERSHIP AND PRACTICES 



Soon after Manuel died, son Bernadino, who 

 was married, asked for land on which to Hve 

 independently, and was given a half acre on the 

 original home site (from which the parents had 

 since moved). Bernadino was dissatisfied, and 

 bad blood arose between him and the rest of the 

 family. Therefore before she died the mother 

 legally divided the land in 1888-89. She gave 

 most of the property to the four children who 

 remained with her because "Bernadino had re- 

 ceived his inheritance previously; because he had, 

 without consulting her, sold a mare worth 10 

 silver pesos; because, unsatisfied with his share he 

 had in a state of intoxication come to fight with 

 her and had struck her; and because he had, after 

 she had already taken to her bed, fired a shot at 

 his blind uncle, Ventm-a Alinan — and onlj' luckily 

 had not killed him." She directed that her son 

 Jos6 Gil should keep daughter Tomasa's share for 

 her until she should marry and should always 

 manage daughter Coronada's share because she 

 was blind. She also left a mule and 5 pesos to 

 her brother's daughter, Francisca Alinan, in grat- 



itude for having served as a grinder in the house 

 "in spite of her being a mute," and 12 sheep and 

 5 pesos each to two adopted orphans — Andr6s 

 Can and Maria Saquil — whom her husband had 

 "bought for three silver pesos" and were living 

 with the family. She also directed these orphans 

 to leave the house at her death so that they would 

 not be mistreated by their foster siblings. 



The will named and identified each of 10 pieces 

 of land totaling about 131 acres. ^^ Tomasa re- 

 ceived tliree delta lots: one of 0.6 acre (part of her 

 Antonia's own inlieritance) valued at 6 silver 

 reales {ji peso); one of 1.4 acres that Manuel 

 Rosales had bought for 10 silver reales (1% pesos) ; 

 and one of 1.1 acres that Manuel had bought fur 

 1 silver peso. She also received 50 sheep and 

 images of Santo Domingo, San Pablo, and Santa 

 Eulalia. 



Blind Coronada was left one piece of delta land 

 of 2.2 acres (part of Antonia's inheritance) valued 



" There were also at least 124 sheep, 6 debtor laborers, 5 imaRes of saints' 

 a credit of 100 pesos (paper) owned by a Ladino on 8.9 acres of delta laud be 

 had bought for 200 pesos. Half this moaey was to bo used for Antonio'a 

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