María Miyares de Pumar

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<I>Gazeta de Caracas</I>, 5 Nov 1811, p.3.
Gazeta de Caracas, 5 Nov 1811, p.3.
<I>Gazeta de Caracas</I>, 5 Nov 1811, p.4
Gazeta de Caracas, 5 Nov 1811, p.4
   

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: Unknown

Events:

1811  -  Barinas  -  Patriot  -  She offered to enlist in the republican army.
1811  -  Barinas  -  Unknown  -  She was living here in 1811.

Connections:

Briceño family
Female relatives of past and future leading political/military/ cultural figures
Women offered to fight for independence cause
Women volunteers, Barinas

Biography:
The wife of Miguel María Pumar, President of the first Junta de Gobierno, she was among a group of women from Barinas province who in 1811 wrote to the governor offering to enlist in the republican army. Their offer was rejected, by the secretary of the provincial government Nicolás Pumar -related? - but their letter was printed in the Gaceta de Caracas on 5 November 1811. (Cherpak, 223, Tosta, 72.)

References:

Lavrin, Asunción (editor). (1978) Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives; Contributions in Women's Studies, No.3.
Pérez Vila, Manuel (editor). (1983) Gaceta de Caracas
Tosta, Virgilio (1987) Historia de Barinas