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New Mexico's Days As A Spanish Colony

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New Mexico's Days As A Spanish Colony

August 20, 2026

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Pedro Alonso O'Crouley, a Spanish merchant of Irish Catholic descent born in Cádiz in 1740, compiled in 1774 a 200-page manuscript, A Description of the Kingdom of New Spain , describing the Spanish dominions that included Mexico and the province of New Mexico. Preserved in the National Library in…

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