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Francisco Afonso de Chaves e Melo
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Donation deed

Donation deed made by Francisco Afonso Chaves e Melo on behalf of Gonçalo Castanho de Mendonça on the occasion of his marriage with his niece Maria de Chaves Torres, in which he donated 40 alqueires of land in S. Miguel island that would compose an entail with a perpetual mass obligation of a weekly mass celebrated in memory of his soul. He appoints the future bride and husband as first administrators of the entail with the condition that they would appoint one of their children or, if they had none, the closest relative of Maria de Chaves Torres, preferably a male one.

Melo, Francisco Afonso de Chaves e (flor.1632)

Will

Will made by Maria de Chaves in which she appointed her nephew Martinho da Costa to the administration of the entail founded by her uncle Francisco Afonso de Chaves, on the occasion of her marriage.

Chaves, Maria de (flor.1633)