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Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Published 2000. Paperback, 123 pp.; 23 cm; text in Spanish; second edition (2a edicion, July 2000), one of 500 copies; illustrated with color portraits, black-and-white photographs, and facsimiles of manuscript documents.
In good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers in cream show mild shelf wear, with light bumping to edges and corners and some soiling. Binding tight. Spotting to edges of text block and to a few preliminary leaves. Otherwise unmarked. Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, the parish priest of Caracuaro who took command of the Mexican insurgency after Hidalgo and was executed in 1815, has a documented ancestry that earlier writers had rarely carried past his grandparents. Chavez Sanchez, a genealogist working in the parish and notarial archives of Morelia, Apaseo and Queretaro, assembled roughly a hundred and fifty documents and traced the line into the late sixteenth century, a generation earlier than the accepted account. He takes up the long-disputed question of Morelos's ancestry, pushing back against Lucas Alaman's nineteenth-century treatment of it, and reprints in facsimile the death certificate and the inventory of possessions taken from Morelos at his execution. A plate reproduces seventeen signatures of Morelos and his family. This second edition corrects errors that entered a hurried first printing. Contents: Prologo; A modo de presentacion; Introduccion; La Progenie de Morelos; Heraldica del apellido Morelos; La rama de los Morelos en la antigua Valladolid; Carta de dote de Isabel de Ortega; Legitimacion de Dn. Diego de Morelos; Jeronimo Morelos; Testamento de Antonia Morelos; Descendencia de Jose Maria Morelos; Acta de defuncion de Morelos; Felipe Morelos Ortuno y Cortes; Actas bautismales de Morelos y sus hermanos; Apaseo-Rama Materna; Heraldica del apellido Pavon; Sebastian Perez Pavon-Juana de Osio y Ocampo; Don Pedro Perez Pavon; Abreviaturas y Bibliografia Minima; Suplemento Iconografico.