Ventura Miguel Marcó del Pont
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Buenaventura Miguel Marcó del Pont Ángel Díaz y Méndez (November 15, 1768 – December 28, 1836) was a Spanish
merchant and treasurer for the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
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Marcó del Pont was born in Vigo
, Spain
, the son of Buenaventura Marcó del Pont y Porí
and of Juana Ángel Díaz y Méndez. He migrated to Buenos Aires in the 1790s and established a successful business. A member of the Spanish consulate (est. 1794), the Municipal Council or Cabildo (1797) and the Real Consulado de Comercio (1803), he was commissioner of the Real Caja de Consolidacion, in which capacity he had dealings with the Viceroy regarding the collection of taxes in Rio de La Plata. In 1807 he lent the Cabildo more than 12,000 pesos to offset losses incurred in the English invasions. He died December 28, 1836, in Andalucia, Spain.
Spanish people
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merchant and treasurer for the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, , was the last and most short-lived Viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire in America.The Viceroyalty was established in 1776 out of several former Viceroyalty of Perú dependencies that mainly extended over the Río de la Plata basin, roughly the present day...
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Marcó del Pont was born in Vigo
Vigo
Vigo is a city and municipality in north-west Spain, in Galicia, situated on the ria of the same name on the Atlantic Ocean.-Population:...
, Spain
Spain
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, the son of Buenaventura Marcó del Pont y Porí
Buenaventura Marcó del Pont
Buenaventura Marcó del Pont y Porí was a Catalonian businessman, and founder of the family of the same name.He was born in Calella de Palafrugell, Gerona in Spain...
and of Juana Ángel Díaz y Méndez. He migrated to Buenos Aires in the 1790s and established a successful business. A member of the Spanish consulate (est. 1794), the Municipal Council or Cabildo (1797) and the Real Consulado de Comercio (1803), he was commissioner of the Real Caja de Consolidacion, in which capacity he had dealings with the Viceroy regarding the collection of taxes in Rio de La Plata. In 1807 he lent the Cabildo more than 12,000 pesos to offset losses incurred in the English invasions. He died December 28, 1836, in Andalucia, Spain.
Sources
- "Ventura Miguel Marco del Pont Correspondence, 1795-1820". Benson Latin American Collection (SRH) The University of Texas at Austin. Accessed November 2008. Online version
- "Alegacion juridica que en defensa de D. Miguel Bdntura Marco del Pont, don Pedro de Landaecheverry, y otros cargadores españoles de la fragata inglesa Hunter, ó Cazadora, escribió el Doct. don José Gerónimo Vivár y Lopez Lisperguer, abogado de los tribunales nacionales, catedrático de código. Alegacion juridica que en defensa de D. Miguel Bentura Marco del Pont". Latin American pamphlet digital project at Harvard University. Preservation microfilm collection; 3608. Accessed November 2008. Online version