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Margarita delatorre moca puerto rico1/10/2024 ![]() ![]() Two persons on the list survived the Middle Passage, and another was from Costa Firme, Venezuela, pointing to the global connections of these transactions. Values for the nineteen enslaved persons, which may include at least two clusters of family, were not specified. The price for the estate was 14,000 pesos macuquina with 2,700 pesos of the total owed to Eugenio Alers, a hacendado who was building his holdings between Aguadilla and Isabela and lending money mid-century to property owners in the area. After the animals were enumerated in the deed, nineteen people held in bondage were listed. The Valle plantation held some 100 head of cattle, 6 horses and two mares with foals. ![]() Both the Ponce and Mirle families, like the del Valle, held larger numbers of enslaved people to work their ranches, farms and plantations. The baptism record for their daughter Manuela Almeida Mirle of 1817 mentions that she was born in Maleza Alta 4, which helps localize the family in a specific barrio. Maria Ponce is most likely Maria Eugenia II Ponce y Perez, wife of Nicolas del Valle Josefa Mirle is Josefa Mirle Gonzalez, wife of Francisco Almeida of Portugal. Each person ran their own hacienda or estancia that included enslaved ancestors. Wives could also own, manage businesses and inherit property independently of their husbands. Patricio González, and on the west side, with Da.María Ponce and Da.Josefa Mirle. Rosa de Santiago and the Royal road that goes by the front to d. Manuel Badillo on the south along the Royal road of the mountain, on the east with Da. Laid out are the names of the other property owners: Antonio Almeida & d. The property transfer is just a few paragraphs long. Next on that same day, the sale of the property from Rafael del Valle to Jose Genaro del Valle was recorded. Rafael’s contract which paid 400 pesos yearly to Jose Genaro, as he points out in the document, was now rescinded 3. By 11 February 1854, the situation had changed. In January 1853, both Rafael del Valle and Jose Genaro del Valle went before the notary to record an arrangement that gave Jose Genaro del Valle the power to administer the cattle ranch in Barrio Malezas, including the enslaved persons, the animals there, and a house in town. As a business practice, endogamy helped to insure trust in partnerships at a time before banks existed on Puerto Rico. In addition, by having this sale occur within the family, they kept their wealth. Clearly, this family possessed a degree of political clout in the municipality. Jose Genaro’s father Antonio, served as Alcalde of Aguadilla just once, in 1837. Rafael’s cousin, Jose Genaro del Valle y Arce (bca 1819) was the son of Antonio del Valle y Perez de Arce (b.1783) and Maria Gregoria de Arce Ponce (1792-1842). Rafael was one of his eight children with Eugenia II Ponce y Perez de Arce (b. Rafael’s father, Nicolas del Valle y Perez de Arce served as Alcalde (Mayor) of Aguadilla three different times, in 1814, 1820-21 and in 1836. Relationship chart for the del Valle cousins, E. Note that Rafael was also related to Jose Genaro’s mother, however, this set of relationships (via the Ponce line) is not included here. They were close and the relationship chart below outlines the cousin relationship between both men. I have distant ties to these families, with Rafael del Valle being my 1C5R and Jose Genaro del Valle my 2C4R. Rafael del Valle y Ponce is selling this estate to his first cousin, D Jose Genaro del Valle y Arce. It begins with the layout of land in Barrio Malezas, Aguadilla, a 180 cuerda (174.6 acres) property, alongside several other plantation owners. It’s a lock, stock and barrel sale between first cousins, and the order of importance for the details enumerated is very telling. Right now i’m looking over this entry for a property sale Aguadilla from February 1854 1. View of Aguadilla, 1898, from Murat Halstead, Full Official HIstory of the War with Spain: The True Inwardness of the War. ![]()
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