Terreros

In the great shaft, called Terreros, they descend, by means of these ladders, to the depth of a thousand feet, there being platforms at certain distances, on which they can rest.

Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

By 1756 the idea had even found a champion—a prodigiously rich philanthropist from Mexico named Don Pedro Romero de Terreros, who offered to pay for all costs of two missions for the Apaches for a period of three years.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Note 13: Enrique Otte, Cartas privadas de emigrantes a Indias, 1540 – 1616 (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1993); Archivo Manuel Romero de Terreros, Miravalles, Pachuca, Mexico. back

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

The other collection consists of the personal correspondence of the Countess of Miravalle, a well-connected but indebted widow, to her son-in-law, Pedro Romero de Terreros, a wealthy mining magnate and the first Conde de Regla. 13 In 1756, the forty-three-year-old Romero de Terreros married the twenty-three-year-old María Antonia, the Condesa's youngest daughter.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Almost all of her letters to the Romero de Terreros family in Pachuca included medicines and instructions for their use; many of these medicines appear to be personal formulas concocted by the Condesa herself.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Terreros refused, insisting that the Indians would never harm him.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

The first to die was Father Terreros, shot with a musket.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Parrilla had delayed the move as long as he could, finally bowing to pressure from the ebullient Father Terreros.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Parrilla now rode to the mission, where three priests and a handful of Indians and servants were protected by five soldiers, to beg Father Terreros to leave for the far greater security of the fort.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Along with business and politics, health is the topic that most dominated the letters she wrote to her son-in-law, Pedro Romero de Terreros.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008