Translation No. 010

Date: 1504, May 10. Medina del Campo, Spain
Theme: The Spanish Crown acknowledges receiving request for two bellows for smithies and for twenty enslaved Blacks from La Española’s colonial governor Nicolás de Ovando, and orders officials of the Casa de la Contratación to send the said items in the first available vessels
Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Españoles—Archivo General de Indias, INDIFERENTE, 418, L.1, F. 130V-131R-2- Imagen Núm: 2/2

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1504 /
so that officials /
send to the Española island /
the things contained in /
that paragraph which are /
necessary for the mines /

The King and the Queen/

our officials at the Casa de la Contratación of the Indies who reside at the city /
of Seville, the Comendador Mayor of [Alcántara] our governor in the islands and /
mainland of the Ocean Sea wrote to us that in the Española island there is need/
ten parts of bellows and the two with their gear of a Blacksmith forge /
and two dozens of picks for the mines like the ones used in the /
mines of La Serena and an arrova of nitric water and two dozens of /
phials with flat bottoms to separate the gold from the silver and twenty /
Black slaves to work in our constructions and a barrel-maker. Hence /
we order you that, after you look into this, you buy and arrange the above /
said things and on the first vessels departing for the said island you send them /
to our said governor with an overseeing person /

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from the village of Medina del Campo on X days of the month of March of DIIII years /
I the King, I the Queen, per the mandate by the King and by the Queen, Gaspar de /
Grisio /

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Translation No. 010