El libro de notas de la Administración de la Comisaría del Chubut (1880-1886. Tensiones entre colonos galeses y funcionarios del Estado

Abstract

Inaugurated on December 4, 1995, the Historical Police Museum and Archive of the Province of Chubut is located in Rawson, capital state city, and contains numerous documents on different moments of the province's police history. In this article we propose to present the note book of the Chubut Police Station Administration from 1880 to 1886. We consider that it constitutes one of the representative sources of the first years of the Welsh colony of Chubut, because it allows us to study the first relations and conflicts that arose between the settlers and the national authorities assigned to the territory, linking them with the parliamentary debate of 1863 in which the project to establish the colony in Patagonia was discussed. We will make a brief reference to the themes that were recorded in that book, to then analyze a confrontation between Commissioner Juan Finoquetto and one of the Welsh leaders, Lewis Jones.

Keywords

• Patagonia
• immigration
• state formation
• parliamentary debate.