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Show L430 26 eo Te latalale ten Pe pew ame poe CS ae Se ety ee stp ASPET baad a te se eeys am earal etal tt ot ae 00 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO ing from lock-jaw, and worn out by service. He has three sons, two sons-in-law, all with their personal arms. They are supplied by the lieutenant-general. Two sons and his two sons-in-law are married and have twelve persons in their families, and twenty-two servants and another young man, capable of bearing arms. He carries a royal arquebus and has been robbed by the enemy. And he signed it. ‘ ALONSO Garcra [Rubric] ’’ ‘The sargento mayor Luis de Quintana passed muster with four very lean horses; all his personal arms ; an infant daughter ; four servants; robbed of house and goods by the And he signed it. enemy. ‘LUIS DE Quintana [Rubric] ”’ ‘Felipe Montoya, married, passed muster on foot, naked, very poor, with one tired horse and four sons. And he signed it. FELIPE Montoya [Rubric] ’’ ‘Captain Roque Madrid passed muster with three lean horses, two lean and tired mules, all his personal arms, his wife, and four small children. Hig house was robbed by the enemy, and [he is] extremely poor. And he signed it. ‘“ROQUE DE Maprip [Rubric]’’ ‘“TO THE GOVERNOR AND CAPTAIN-GENERAL: At the camping place of La Salineta, on the 5th of October, in the year of 1680, before me the governor and captain-general, the following was presented by the Procurador General and duly received. “I, the sargento mayor, Luis Granillo, alderman and Procurador General, in the name and on behalf of all the inhabitants who came out of New Mexico, routed, do appear before your Excellency in due form of law and say: That by order of your Excellency it was made public that it was necessary for us to make a stop, selecting a site within said Jurisdictio n; there is no proper place or accommodation for so many people as find themselves today in these two settlements to sojourn, nor any Secur ity whatever, as we are on the frontier of the enemy, from as from the Organs ; and because of Seven Rivers as well our encountering so many serious inconveniences, I ask and pray your Excellency, as such Procurador General in said provinces of New Mexico and on behalf of its said inhabitant s, that, taking into consideration the matters referred to, these two settlements join and, moving from the fix our settlement at the Conversionpresent site, we go and called Guadalupe on the opposite bank of the Rio del Norte, a very convenient place for pastures and wood, where these poor people may 01 build huts and log houses to shelter themselves from the threatening rigors of winter; in your Excellency ’S $0 doing, good will come to us and the subjects of his Majesty, who are so much in need of human comfort, will receive great relief. ‘‘T pray for justice in the name of my said people and implore the royal protection of your Excellency, and in what may be necessary, etc., ete. Luis GRANILLO. ‘¢ Procurador-General.’’ INTERROGATORIES AND DEPOSITIONS of three Indians of the Tehua nation, taken by the order of Don Antonio de Otermin. The originals of these are found in the Archivo General of Mexico. Historia, vol. 26, Documentos de Otermin, etc., pp. 124 to 140. DEPOSITION. ‘‘At this camping place of the Rio del Norte, overlooking the three pueblos of Alameda, Puaray and Zandia, on ae twenty-eighth day of the month of December, one thousan six hundred and eighty-one, for the procedure and in- formation necessary to be had in this new subjugation an pacification, and for the purpose of making a record of a the motives, reasons, circumstances, designs and other support which the traitorous apostates, rebels against the royal crown of his masjesty, had and have had, for the conspiracy, alliance and revolt, apostatizing from the Holy Faith, losing the royal obedience, burning images and temples, ca ciously killing priests, soldiers, women and children, . : ing possession of all the things of the divine cult, arate and everything of which they could take possession 1n oe kingdom, returning to blind idolatry and to old dee: 1- tions; His Excellency caused to appear before him an Indian of the Tehua nation, who said his name was ee: that he is a native of the pueblo of Tesuque, married; an the governor and captain general, having named eee companying witnesses the maestre de campo Pedro de i va, the sargento mayor Nicolas Rodriguez, the sargemt mayor Sebastian de Herrera, captain of the fortress ee sidio), the sargento mayor Luis Granillo, present G. a. man, the alférez Juan de Luna y Padilla, and eee 7 ey e Noriega, a private, the very Reverend Father cisco de Ayeta, Preacher, Comisario of the Santo Procurador General of both jurisdictions Fr. Of (fueros), itador of this Holy Custodia, as well as his secretary, 5 vi; , ne |