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Show " Ny © r te a ade ate Pee eed Ean es i er i i a tara ek pat al ee # 2 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO a ek a bd sa et et ae ‘ ae ee ee + (1) Governor Otermin’s order calling the junta April 5th. (2) Pareceres, April 5th. (3) Governor’s order to Maestre de Campo Pedro de Leiva, to buy supplies. (4) Report of Leiva, June 15th. Names: Fray Nicolas Hurtado (custodian), Fray Andres Duran, Fray Pedro Gomez, Fray Diego de Parraga, Fray Joseph Bonillo, civil and military secretary, Luzero de Godoy; (alcalde ordinario) maestre de campo, Pedro de Leiva, maestre de campo, Francisco Gomez Robledo, maestre de campo, Juan Dominguez de Mendoza; sargentos mayores, Pedro Duran y Chabez, Fernando Duran y Chabez, Sebastian de Herrera, Lorenzo de Madrid, Diego Lopez Sambrano; capitanes, Juan Luys, Fernando de Chabez; cabildo of Santa Fe, maestre de campo, Alonso Garcia; procurador general, Luis Granillo (Santa Fe cabildo) ; Alonso del Rio (regidor, Santa Fe cabildo) ; clerk of cabildo, Luis Quintana; Fray Francisco de Ayeta, (procurador general) ; Apaches, Valle de Casas Grandes, unconverted and apostate Indians, Nueva Vizeaya, Parral (pueblo?) Sonora, civil and military secretary, Francisco Xavier, Isleta (pueblo) Sefiora de San Joseph (pueblo?) ete. An “‘Auto’’ is a judicial or executive decree or sentence ; a writ or warrant; an edict, ordinance, or official declaration of facts; official proceedings in a suit at law, civil or criminal. Don Antonio de Otermin was governor and captain -general of the province of New Mexico at the time of the uprising of the Pueblo Indians, August 10,1680. Mr. Charles Wilson Hackett, in a paper prepared in connection with the course of southwestern history under Dr. H. E. Bolton, Leland Stanford Jr. University, in a bibliographica l note, referring to the autos of Governor Otermi n, states that these autos found in the archives of Mexico have only recently come to light. In this he errs. These documents and their existence have been known to Mexica n writers for many years. They were known to Father Augustin Fischer . They were known to Hon. T. B. Catron of Santa Fe, who purchased Father Fischer’s library, to the great consternation of the literary men of the Mexican capital , who learned of _the purchase only after the collection had been safely shipped out of the Republic. Mr. Ad. F. Bandelier was sent to the City of Mexico by Mr. Catron for the purpose of examining the library , with a view of purchase and it was THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 5 upon the judgment of Mr. Bandelier that the purchase was made. Several years afterward, Mr. Clarence Key made examination and translated some of the autos of Otermin. Mr. Bandelier also was familiar with their existence. These autos only came to light when their existence was made known to Dr. Bolton, whose devotion to discoveries of this nature doubtless prompted him in having copies made by his competent assistants. Mr. Hackett states that those covering the period 16801682 consist of 243 folios and are known in the archives of Mexico as Num. 27. de los Papeles del Supor. Govno. Afio de 1681. Segundo quaderno de Numo. 6. Pa. remitir a leon. Srio. Don Pedro Valesques de la Cadena. Expedienteno. 6.N. Fojas 123. and Varios Hechos de los Indios de Nuevo Mexico Numo 20 Afio de 1682 No. 2 y fojas 120. Srio. D. Pedro Valesques de la Cadena. A large number of the autos of Otermin, covering events subsequent to the uprising and beginning with August 23, 1680, are to be found in the Archivo General de Mexico. Historia. Tomo XXVI, entitled Documentos para la Historia del Nuevo Mexico formados por D. Antonio de Otermin, sobre el Levantamiento del ato de 1680. In addition to the original autos, discovered by Dr. Bolton, the extractos have been available to English writers for more than half a century. They were used by W. W. H. Davis in his Conquest of New Mexico: by H. H. Bancroft in his History of Arizona and New Mezico. Twenty years before the last named had any knowledge of them, they are referred to by Meline, who says that such a document as the Journal of Otermin ‘‘had lately come to light”’ among the archives at Santa Fe. Escalante, in preparing his Carta, post archive 779, must have had access to the extractos or the original autos. The autos following, in this note, are translated from the compilation made by Fr. Augustin Fischer, the original copies from the archives themselves being in the Museo Nacional de Mexico. Mr. Hackett, in the paper referred to, has given to us a most elaborate and praiseworthy statement, taken from the autos discovered by his learned preceptor. The events transpiring just prior to the outbreak, in part as given by Mr. Hackett, at the several pueblos occurred as follows: At Taos and Picuriés, ‘‘The Spanish settlers in the vicinity of these pueblos were not altogether without warning that the Indians were planning a revolt, but at these places, as at the others where the news leaked out, there was con- |