Index 
Baumabe, mission of, 120 
Bavispe, American bandits at, 263 
Bayonnaise, French vessel, 231 
Beales, Juan Carlos, application by, 439; con- 
tract of, 435; colony of, 439 
Bean, Pedro Elias (Ellis), accusation by, 432; 
claim of, 433, 437; commission of, 356; 
conduct of, 433; contract of, 434; docu- 
ments concerning, 304; letter from, 329; 
petition by, 354; reports by, 277, 360 
Beaty, Dr. A., petition by, 355 
Beaumont, chronicles of, 22 
Bee, Barnard E., commissioner, arrival of, 177; 
correspondence, 177, 227, 232; mission of, 
227 
Begg, English vessel, 328 
Béjar, see Béxar 
Belda, Fr. Vicente, requests of, 164 
Belda y Costello, Fr. Mariano, license to, 84 
Belefia, Eusebio Ventura, correspondence, 25, 
08; Recopilacion .. de los Autos .. de la 
Real Audiencia y Sala del Crimen de esta 
Nueva Espana, 75n.; statement to, 48 
Bell, Commodore Charles H., conduct of, 231 
Belledo, Joseph, correspondence, 49 
Beltran, correspondence, 47 
Beltran, José Maria, correspondence, 339; pe- 
tition by, 353 
Benavides, Fr. Alonso de, letter of, 391; report 
of, 203 
Benavides, Fr. Rafael de, difficulties of, 116 
Beneficencia, ramo de (Guadalajara), 384 
Beneficencia Privada, ramo de, 347 
Beneficencia Publica, ramo de, 347 
Benegas, Miguel, petition by, 354; see also 
Venegas 
Benito de la Natividad, Fr., missionary, 462 
Bent, Carlos, report concerning, 263 
Benton, Thomas H., speech of, 258 
Beramendi, Juan, complaint against, 432; see 
also Veramendi 
Berlandier, Luis, papers of, 261 
Berlin, congress at, 240; Mexican legation at, 
259 
Bermudez, Francisco, petition of, 430 
Bernabé, Fr. Gil de, death of, 390; portrait of, 
393 
Bernacci, opinion of, 41 
Bernal, Lieut. C. M., letters by, 74 
Bernalillo, San Felipe y Puerto de San Fran- 
cisco de, see San Felipe y Puerto de San 
Francisco de Bernallillo 
Bernardo, Juan, application by, 439 
Bernavé, see Bernabé 
Berne, conference at, 240 
Bernet, Joseph, instructions to, 57 | 
Berroteran, Capt. José de, campaign of, 424; 
diary of expedition by, 37; report by, 34 
Bertu, Luis, concession to, 99 
Betancur, Juan de, letters of, 54 
Betlem, missionaries of, 48 
Betsey, American brig, 165 
Beudin, Cornelius, letter by, 74 ; 
Béxar, affairs at, 44; alcalde of, 438; applica- 
tions of persons of, 437; attack upon and 
487 
capture of, 275; ayuntamiento of, 321; col- 
onization, 420, 434, 430; complaints by 
citizens of, 428, 429, 432; confiscation of 
property of, 431; correspondence with offi- 
cials of, 45, 267; council of war held at, 
96; curate of, 418; debt due citizen of, 430; 
declarations from, 290, 431; decree con- 
cerning, 321; documents concerning, 135, 
414; expeditions against, 284, 285; expedi- 
tions from, 277, 281; Indian troubles, 44; 
lands, 432, 433; map, 365; moneda amorti- 
zada of, 435; news from, 248; pardon for 
citizen of, 431; petition of citizens of, 341; 
political chief of, 432, 435, 438, 441; pottery 
factory for, 430; presidial company of, 174; 
professorship of grammar at, 432; refer- 
ences to, 89; report from, 329; sale of 
goods left in, 430; school at, 434; slaves 
of, 429; soldiers, 270, 311, 352, 426; squad- 
ron, 436; tobacco monopoly in, 431; see also 
San Antonio 
Beza, Gov. Francisco, complaints against, 93 
Bezerra, Gen. Antonio, report by, 52 
Biarritz, international conference of, 240 
Bibliographical Society of America, Papers of, 
75 
Biblioteca, see Archivo de la Biblioteca 
Biblioteca Nacional, documents listed, 210-213; 
information concerning, 210; manuscript 
collections in, 5; working hours in, 2 
Biblioteca Publica (Guadalajara), 380-382; 
(Zacatecas), 403 
Bibliothéque, Sommervogel, 24 
Bidais, alliance with, 117; mission for the, 44, 
394 
Bienes Nacionales, seccién de, 368 
Bienes Raices, seccién de, 236 
Bienvenida, ship, 184 
Biller, Diego, security for, 177 
Billings, Joseph, letters of, 41 
Birds, collection of, 263 
Bishops, letters and papers of, 60, 63, 185; see 
also names of particular bishoprics and 
bishops 
Black, John, U. S. consul, correspondence, 248; 
expulsion of, 243 
Black, Capt. William, letter of, 142 
Blair, interviews with, 231 
Blanco, American, fine levied against, 457 
Blanco, Fr. Joseph, certificate in favor of, 208 
Blanco, Gen. Miguel, command of, 300 
Boca de Leones, see Villaldama 
Bocanegra, minister of relations, correspond- 
ence, 287; investigation of, 32 
Bocas prietas, report concerning, 107 
Boca Tuerta, Indian chief, 
Bodega, port of, attempt to sell, 227; occupa- 
tion of, 42; occurrences at, 281; Russians 
at, 88, 212, 272, 273 
Bodega y Quadra, Juan Francisco de la, boy 
brought by, 157; correspondence, 41, 113, 
I4I, 142, 172; diaries, 40, 53, 141; discov- 
eries by, 155; expeditions of, 38, 39, 73, 161, 
246; map by, 141; report to, 41 
Bodega y Ross, 271 
