Tomás Pérez Guerra

Not to be confused with Tomás Pérez or Tomás Pérez Serra.

Tomás Pérez Guerra
22nd Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1 January 1826[1] – 31 December 1826[2]
Preceded byJosé Ortíz de la Renta
Succeeded byJulián Villodas
Personal details
Bornc. 1775
Santiago de los Caballeros
Diedca. 1846
SpouseMaría del Carmen Miura y Pepin
ChildrenHilarión Pérez Guerra y Miura (c. 1813-1871)
Parent(s)Luis Pérez Guerra y Tresplaciaso and Rosa Sánchez y Firpo
ProfessionMilitary Officer

Tomás Pérez Guerra y Sánchez[3][4] (c. 1775, Santiago de los Caballeros – ca. 1846) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1826[5] to 31 December 1826.[6]

Biography

Tomás Pérez Guerra y Sánchez was the son of Teniente Coronel Luis Pérez Guerra y Tresplaciaso, a native of Ruenes, Asturias, and Rosa Sánchez y Firpo. Tomás enlisted in the Militia on February 4, 1788 with the quality of being a son of a Captain at the age of 12 or 13.[7] He was given the rank of Cadete del Batallón on June 7, 1791.[7] In June of 1795, he requested to be stationed in the northern frontier of Hispaniola where he fought for the Spanish in the War of the Pyrenees.[7] After the war's end in the following month, he returned to Santo Domingo.[7] On October 31, 1810 in Santo Domingo, Subteniente Tomás married María del Carmen Miura y Pepin, the daughter of Teniente de Infantería Martín Miura and Josefa Pepin.[8] He was noted as being a part of the militia in Puerto Rico at this time. While stationed in San Juan, Pérez Guerra was promoted to the rank of Teniente. He also owned a slave named Rafaela who had a daughter named María Ricarda in 1814.[9] At some point, he returned to Santo Domingo serving in the militia and where he had a child in 1821 before relocating back to Puerto Rico likely as a result of the occupation of the colony of Santo Domingo by Haiti in 1822. By 1826, Pérez Guerra was in Ponce serving as mayor and a part of the militia. His son Hilarión Pérez Guerra y Miura also served as Mayor of Ponce.

Mayoral term

On 31 August 1826, during the midst of mayor Pérez Guerra's mayoral term, a slave revolt in Ponce against the slave owners in Ponce was discovered and the slaves were condemned to death. The Provincial Military Governor of Puerto Rico, Miguel de la Torre, traveled to Ponce to witness the mass shooting. The 11 slaves shot dead were named as follows: Francisco José, Federico, Benito, Pablo Viejo, Oguis, José Félix (from Barrio El Quemado), Faustino (also from Barrio El Quemado), Francisco Antonio, Don Esteban Miguel Roque's Francisco Antonio and Manuel, and Don Wedestein's Inés.[10] There are no Acts in the Municipality for the period from 1824 to 1834, affecting the period while Pérez Guerra was mayor.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
  2. ^ Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
  3. ^ Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 166.
  4. ^ Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia. Puerto Rico Encyclopedia. Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades. 2018. Accessed 2 May 2018. Archived 23 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  5. ^ Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
  6. ^ Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
  7. ^ a b c d "Hoja de Servicio de Tomas Perez Guerra (1795)". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Matrimonio de Tomas Perez Guerra y Maria del Carmen Miura". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  9. ^ "Bautismo de María Ricarda, esclava de Tomás Pérez Guerra". FamilySearch.org.
  10. ^ Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 261-261.
  11. ^ Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Ponce: Notas para su Historia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Second Edition 1986. p. 79.

Further reading

  • Ramon Marin. Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce. Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1994.


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