Negotiating Land in the Spanish Philippines: Cases of Land Donations and Boundary Disputes in Laguna, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

• Main Author: Concepcion, Grace Liza
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol67/iss3/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/1018/viewcontent/Negotiating_20Land_20in_20the_20Spanish_20Philippines_20_5Bvol._2067_20no._203_E2_80_934_20_282019_29_2028.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Using archival documents, thisarticle analyzes two types of negotiations involving land in Laguna province. The first deals with donations that native leaders made to the Franciscans for the establishment of a hospital in Los Baños in the early 1600s. The second type consists of native claims to lan...