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Show = A ca oe ~ey a i Badd” et ee et ht THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 121 Pekeee et eer el Bd — 120 er eae me e Se o ae) ye — SISTELS LSE a ee ae ee el ial a eae e e ee Se ee ee Sa ee res eee a bea id at peopled and not to be permitted as the aforesa id Citizens asked in the said revolt to be depopulated as I, the said Marqués, find it deserted and ruined, its Inhabit ants scattered, begging for lands and soliciting alms, everything haphazard and exposed to any misfortune, the said Town left to destroy itself, it having been the intenti on of the said Castellan governor, my predecessor, Don Pedro Rodriguez Cubero, to destroy all that I had done and leave no memory [of it], since even the grants of land he demand ed and annulled for the most part and cut them into bits and himself gave away those he chose of what were clearly in the pending petitions and pleas. Some in my Tribunal and others settled and in the greatest confusion and disorder so that nothing stands as a fixed grant by the privilege of conquest and the prerogative of given his Majesty through the said Most Excellent Count de Galves and the Royal Council ‘All reasons why your excellency should endorse this my paper and what is stated [herein] and I refer next [to the fact that] the best of these Royal Houses will be untaxed [la excusara] and is not equivalent to the tenth part of the 252 2 ee] ruin referred to and further the said damage and harm to the said neighborhood and especially to that of the said re . men-at-arms, six hundred soldiers of this said fort, to reclaim It as is its duty under my Orders requires the re-building of the dwellings according to the plan for tt La ee ee ee a agea Aa a Ps7 Ly | . a 2 en referred J of Cy > Se i ; ae : a ee odee 4 + A ‘ 4 @bd Si +) . . ee ee ee 5] 5 if “ “ed SS ee . 5 . is a i PCs no place With to live, at least they be harbored in the said garrison and to certify to ajest Sr. in [the person y Viceroy, Duke of of] his Most Alburquerque, Worthy of the mM All of transmit and in my name place in the hands of the said Honorable Cabildo of Justice and Administration, praying that it be given security, so that they will determine and give to me dispose of it, if your Honor will be pleased to the said endorsement I may add it to three copies of this by right bepaper for transmission and the security which longs to me, and I sign it with my civil and military secre- tary on the said day, month and year as above. PRESENTATION : ‘‘Titg MARQUES DE LA NAVA : BRAZINAS one thousand but is the Truth and the state in which borhood exposed to devastation, with no place to take ie in residence and the living Scattered on their ranche and places they ah e made in their wanderings, most ofs them with miser- e€ apprehension on account of the Indian s near by since arch of thig year, when my said predecessor, the governor f ‘At the Villa of Santa Fe, Capital of the Provinces 0 New Mexico, on the second day of the month of December, Pe - . but for the Town of Los Pecos. whole of New Spain and Their Honors, the Ministers of its forces separated only for this Town which is worthy of consideration because of the serious damage and harm it received, my duty being the defense, security and maintenance of this Province, as well as on account of the various points named and further I request a report of the endorsement which Your Excellency may be pleased to make and give to me, since it 1s Justice for which I ask, and likewise a part of my duty in the defense of this Province for the said Most Honorable Viceroy and Royal Council, and, in case of necessity, for his Majesty, the King our lord, Whom God Preserve! in his supreme and royal state council of war of the council for the Indies, and to certify thereto, I sign it, in this Villa of Santa Fe, the first of December, one thousand seven hundred and to three, and entrust it to my civil and military secretary Excel- this Provinee, the Fort a ruin as to its garrison, the ne of ee A de eed *-*-%- & -% (Fae ae ees —% * ae ~~ and garrison. also that the said Inhabitants n ht + Sad "i a ee en er et es ik C a ee tn ee dk en ed ee) ee eee ae oe oe Ee eee 1 ee oe — — sted en es F *-e8 mf * - |a - of a fortress : ouncil of Finance and War, as well as your ExcelAvr that they may be pleased to endorse it, I swearing as , the said Marqués de la Naba Brazinas, govr. and Capt. general of this Province, do swear, that this paper in the name of God and by the sign of the Holy Cross, is not f oe in malice Se [eae ee Ee ut os ea eee oe ee od Bed RA nay l ve ae eee" a i and complaint Incidentally have thea ee a } to im the form ne Don Pedro Rodriguez Cubero left the Provinces of Zuii and Moqui and the Village of the Thanos nation of Galisteo depopulated which I left and put into his hands, with its mayor, Antonio Zisneros, as a frontier and defense, not seven hundred and three, before the Cabildo of Justice and Government of the said Town, comes Captain Don Alphonso Rael de Aguilar, civil and military eee retary of this said Province, in the name of Sefior Marques governor and captain-general of this de la Nava Brazinas, said Province, its recent Conqueror and Pacificator, at his own cost, for his Majesty and the context of the said get a being compared corresponding to his statement and wha sal the by asked 1s attention your correct, being expresses Sr. Marqués ” ENDORSEMENT: ‘““We certify to the king, our lord, to the pina f : his Royal and Supreme Council of the Indies and to Most Honorable Sr. Viceroy, Duke of Alburquerque, er to the Gentlemen of the Royal Court of Mexico, and to the |
