Decree issued by the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina during the administration of Guadalupe Victoria, granting a pension to the widow of David H. Porter, who had never married. Captain Porter was killed in a sea battle off the coast of Cuba in February 1828, while commanding the Mexican brig Guerrero in an attack on Spanish vessels

• 1828

• Gómez Pedraza, Manuel, 1789-1851

• Mexico

• Mexico, President (1824-1829 : Victoria)
• Mexico, Secretaría de Estado y del Despacho de Guerra y Marina
• Mexico. Congreso

1 sheet (4 unnumbered pages) ; 22 x 31 cm, folded to 22 x 16 cm

At head of sheet: Secretaria de Guerra y Marina. Seccion 3a

Dated and signed at end: México 27 de Marzo de 1828. G. Pedraza

Pages [3]-[4] blank

Se faculta al Gobierno para concedér á la viuda de D. David H. Porter una pension de ciento ochenta pesos mensales, la que en su fallecimiento pasara á sus hijos conforme al reglamento de monte pio

Title from first lines of text

• Mexico

• Guerrero (Brig)

• Porter, David H. (David Henry), 1804-1828

• History
• Military pensions
• Politics and government
• Sources

• text

• Spanish; Castilian

México : publisher not identified

Public domain (MX)

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2020-10-26