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Show ee et oe ta ee) Bek ee eed lah” eed” Sa Bee a ee AE Bey Do eee er Sac * Yee“fash Sa Sl BN eee tte ck beds Sok Sal ee | ek al eee ie eee” edieadeaeteal adh | ae oe 8-8 ete ee ETET PEWS STE hal . 122 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO other Judges to whom these presents may come: that in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three the Sefor Marqués de la Nava de Brazinas, present governor and captain-general, having entered upon the conquest and peopling of this said Province with the families which on behalf of his Majesty he gathered together from the Provinces of the mines of Zacatecas and Sombrerete, natives of the Province who since the year eighty had withdrawn to the Town of El Passo with the hundred gentlemen soldiers that he also recruited for the establishment of this Fortress, led them with their wives and children, and when the said Sr. Marqués arrived in the said Province he sent Separate messages to all the governors of the pueblos, giving them to understand that he had reached this said ProvInce with the said men-at-arms of his Fortress and their families to people it, and offering them full pardon as he had done in the year ninety-two of his happy again conquest, and the said Sr. having arrived at this said Town he found that the Indians of the Thanos nation had taken possession of it; that they were rebellious and obstinate in their apostasy, boasted of the war and although the said Sr. Marqués offered them peace and pardon in the name of his Majesty, charging them repeatedly not to risk their Wives and children and many other reasons why should cease what they had undertaken, all of which they made no Impression upon them; rather did the said Apostates prosecute with greater fury and passion the aforesaid war which the said Sr. Marqués on his side declared and took Up In obedience and stubbornness ; conquer ing them, winning the said Town of Santa Fe by means of the divine fa- vor and the ability and resolution of the said Sefior and accomplishing it, although with great the said Town having its fortified walls, labor by reason of with a single gate only by which to keep in communication; with its parapet, wts ravelin or redoubt, shaped in the form of a half tower, two towers on the south side; and two others on the north et and the whole circumference of the said Town with ty enches giving the form of a girdle, all which stood demalshed, with its two large squares and. the dwellings three or f hig stores hagh which it had and which had been sufficient f : all the said families and the hundred gentlemen soldiers og were lodged and lived m them with ample space; av 1kewise | ad ee op ae tes ?= ; Oy + co me ee ee as sa or ee ae oe oy the Sr. Marqués calls attention in his paper to the commodious houses for the Churchmen, and close t0 t em he built at his own cost a church that they might @ mininster the Holy Sacraments; and also there came to the THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 123 said Town on the twenty-third day of June, in the year ninety-four, the Mexican families which, by order of the Most Honorable Sefior Viceroy, who was the Count of Galves, had been sent to populate it, and to all of them he gave houses and lodgings, the number of persons thus furnished like the other families, comprised more than fifteen hundred people, all in safety because they were under the guard of the hundred soldiers of the garrison, as well as of the fortress constructed in said Town, which he left to his successor, Captain Dn Pedro Rodriguez Cubero, on the secand the said ond day of July, of the year ninety-seven; governor did not leave it accordingly and in like manner as the said Sr. Marqués had done, since the condition in which the said Villa is now found is one of ruin and desolation, with the said church which served for a parish church, constructed as aforesaid, by the said Sr. Marqués, at his own cost; and what the said governor has seen are six high buildings and six low ones, which are used as Royal Houses, and are not worth a tenth part of what was in the said Villa, and in regard to the New Santa Cruz of the Mex— that is still more desolated and ruined, the wood icans and adobe houses abandoned and the crops left standing ; it [Santa Cruz] also, when the said Sr. Marqués founded and peopled it with families from Mexico and Zacatecas to the number of seventy, was provided with capacious houses, its plaza with a chapel and convent below an entrance gate, with trenches, it having been, in the revolt of the year ninety-six and the insurrection of the Indians, the only and complete refuge and protection of the inhabitants; and the ideas the said Governor D. Pedro Rodrigues Cubero held about these said towns did not preserve them in the form and manner in which he took them over, and it 1s to he has be explained by the great enmity and disaffection toward the said Sr. Marqués, trying by every means to Show his malice; truth to tell there remains not even a and for the memory of what the said Senor conquered — consequences Service of the king the further and pernicious which follow from the depopulation and ruin of the two Villas already manifest inhabitants could themselves clearly and openly, the said Indians would the especially if there should be any rising or revolt among Indians, this said Province would have no place where the said take refuge and esty would succeed in their evil designs and his Majesty lose this Royal Possession for the lack of considering ang serve ee foreseeing it, which would result in a failure to lost withonce 1s what restore to easy not is it Powers; and |