From LDS Film: DEATH: #820714, San José de Peñuelas: María Sabina DIAS, 55; muere 07 Jan 1818, Peñuelas. Casada con Pedro QUIRINDONGO, un negro olandés (mulatto).Testó (She made a Will.) Su albacea (executor), su esposo Pedro QUIRIDONGO.(sic)

Question:

Was the Sabina DIAS surname well known in Curacao at her birth date circa 1763?

Questions:

Was a WILL needed because Pedro was a “negro olandes” and therefore still considered a slave under the eyes of the law in PR and to do otherwise he would not have been able to defend his “legal rights” 55 yrs BEFORE abolition?

Did Pedro and/or Juan Pedro and/or family conspire in the Slave revolt of 1795 and were banned in Curacao?

1785 - 1816 Mass exodus of (free) people (with some money) from Curacao due to Slave Revolt, Politics, Economic downturn, Disease and weather. ---- “Chaos” Pg 277 and “Emigration” Pg 301 Jews in NA

1795 Slave rebellion in Curacao in oral history and poetry.

www.cca7.org/workshopspages/watamula.html

members.aol.com/curacao2/heroes.htm

How did Pedro get a surname? from mother? from father? from locality in Curacao where he was born?

To get PR Death Certificates, you have to write a request to

the Director Registro Demorafico,

Mr. Jose A. Torrado,

P.O. Box 11854

Fernandez Juncos Station

San Juan, PR 00910

(787) 767-9120

for authorization from him with a copy of your driver’s license and the reason for the request. “Genealogy research” will suffice. The fee for this authorization is $5.00 MONEY ORDER ONLY. You will need this authorization letter to request any vital records for genealogy. The letter is good for 6 months and you can use it numerous time, just keep the original and send the copy with your request. BEST IF DONE BY MAIL.

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for a Will

http://www.tribunalpr.org/misc/telefonos.html#archiveros

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Call first so that they can order from old archives and get a name of whom to talk to when you arrive.

Registro de Testamentos

Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico

Oficina del Inspector de Notarias

Lcda Carmen Hilda Carlo

PO Box 190917

San Juan PR 00919-0917

I requested info on both the above WILL and two (2) for research with money and with dd214 veterans “separation from active duty” to the above address by post but received no response.

www.genealogy.about.com/library/vital/blpuertorico.htm

Click below

1. THE CASE FOR SPANISH ORIGIN…

2. THE CASE FOR INDIGENOUS CURACAO ORIGIN…

3. THE CASE FOR DUTCH ORIGIN…

4. THE CASE AGAINST AFRICAN ORIGIN (whole or in part)…

Any combination of all 4 origins of KIRINDONGO in Spanish, Indigenous Amerindian, Dutch. (or African ?)