Rafaela Ramona Esquivel y Aldao

Other names/titles:
Gender: F
Ethnic origin: Unknown

Biographical details

In 1812 she was among a group of Tucumán women who sewed uniforms for the patriot army. Several of these offered to buy weapons and they asked that their names be inscribed on them. Their accompanying note (below) was reproduced in the Gaceta Minist, No. 12, 26 de junio de 1812. (Mitre, Obras completas, VII, 16-17)

She was baptised on 4 August 1747, when she was aged five, and is described as the daughter of Félix Esquivel and Rosa de Aldao. In 1810 she and her husband donated 3 onzas of gold to the independence cause. (Carranza, 128)

She could be one of two sisters of Luis Aldao who William Robertson met in Santa Fe, Tucumán. (Robertson, Vol.1, 203)

Life Events

Born	1742	She was born around this time.
Other	1747	She was baptised on 4 August 1747 at the age of 5.
Other	1810	She and her husband donated 3 onzas of gold to the independence cause.
Other	1812	She offered to buy arms for the independence troops.

References

Mitre, Bartolomé, (1940), Obras completas de Bartolomé Mitre

Robertson, John Parish and W. P., (1970), Letters on Paraguay

Carranza, Adolfo P., (1910), Patricias argentinas

Publications

Letter: Carta

Links

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Resource id #47 (20)

Gendering Latin American Independence

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