Panay
Jaro: Quiason, quoting Bowring,[1] indicates that the weekly market here was held on Thursdays, “which is crowded by people from every part of the province” (26). He also includes a set of brief descriptions by Trumbull White.[2] Buzeta writes: “… Mercado que celebrant todos los jueves, y al que concurren los hab. [sic] de casi todos los pueblos de la prov., [sic] por ser el mas rico de las islas.”[3]
Quiason, 27, quoting Bowring, indicates that there were also weekly markets at Molo, Mandurriad, Oton, and Arevalo, but Bowring does not specify the days of the week they were offered (Bowring, 401).
Santa Barbara: Buzeta does not specify the day of the market but makes some good points generally:[4] “Este pueblo que en 1820 todavia no se ocupaba mas que en la labranza, caza de venados y corte de maderas, ahora celebra un Mercado seminal que le surte de lo necesario y le proporciona con su concurrencia compradores de los tejidos finos y ordinaries, que elaboran las mugeres. … es considerable la estraccion de granos y telas y el movimiento de su Mercado.”
Oton: Tuesdays--Buzeta (v. 2, 373) writes “Su Mercado que se verifica todos los martes es el segunda de la provincia.”
San Miguel: Buzeta, v. 2, 325) writes: “… que tiene un gran Mercado semanal que se cree el tercero de la prov.[sic]” Day of the market is not specified.
[1] John Bowring, A Visit to the Philippine Islands (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1859), 361.
[2] Trumbull White, Our New Possessions, A Graphic Account, Descriptive and Historical of the Tropic Islands of the Sea which have Fallen Under Our Sway, Their Cities, Peoples and Commerce, Natural Resources and the Opportunities they Offer to Americans, Book I: The Philippine Islands (Chicago: John E. Hoham & Co., 1898), 199.
[3] Manuel Buzeta, O.S.A.; and Felipe Bravo, O.S.A., Diccionario Geográfico, Estadístico, Histórico de las Islas Filipinas (Madrid: José C. de la Peña, 1851. 2 vols.), v. 2, 116-117. Accessed through Google Books.
[4] Manuel Buzeta, O.S.A.; and Felipe Bravo, O.S.A., Diccionario Geográfico, Estadístico, Histórico de las Islas Filipinas (Madrid: José C. de la Peña, 1851. 2 vols.), v. 1, 348-349. Accessed through Google Books.