Colonial New Mexican Families
256 pages, 6 x 9
5 drawings, 5 charts, 7 tables
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jun 2022
ISBN:9780826363923
Hardcover
Release Date:01 Jun 2018
ISBN:9780826359209
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Colonial New Mexican Families

Community, Church, and State, 1692–1800

University of New Mexico Press

In villages scattered across the northern reaches of Spain's New World empire, remote from each other and from the centers of power, family mattered. In this book Suzanne M. Stamatov skillfully relies on both ecclesiastical and civil records to discover how families formed and endured during this period of contention in the eighteenth century. Family was both the source of comfort and support and of competition, conflict, and even harm. Cases, including those of seduction, broken marriage promises, domestic violence, and inheritance, reveal the variabilities families faced and how they coped. Stamatov further places family in its larger contexts of church, secular governance, and community and reveals how these exchanges--mundane and dramatic--wove families into the enduring networks that created an intimate colonial New Mexico.

Suzanne M. Stamatov is an independent researcher living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter One. The Setting
Chapter Two. Civil Authorities, Civil Law, and Family
Chapter Three. The Sacrament of Marriage
Chapter Four. Sexuality and Courtship
Chapter Five. Marriage
Chapter Six. Domestic Life and Discord
Conclusion

Appendix
Notes on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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