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Show 406 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN Jemez came to the capital asking pardon bad actions to the influence of one of their were willing to surrender. The offer was stead of being executed, was sentenced to Nueva Vizcaya PUEBLO HISTORY and attributing all their chiefs, Diego, whom they accepted and Diego, inslavery in the mines of for a period of ten years. 11, 1694 (Ms.). Prince and other historians state that the remains of Fr. Juan de Jesus were buried in the ‘‘ parish church;’’ that an old Indian and his wife showed De Vargas where the friar had been buried in 1680. The Journal of De Vargas contains the following entries relative to the removal of the remains of the Fr. Juan de Jesus to Santa Fé: ‘‘On said tenth day of August, aforesaid date, having heard mass and the sermon, on the feast of the holy martyr San Lorenzo, of this day, the Rev. Father Vice-custodio Fr. Juan Mufios de Castro and the other Reverend Fathers Missionaries Apostolic, came to bid me welcome, Governor and Captain-General as aforesaid, and presented their congratulations for my success and triumph, and most of all in that in which they were so interested, the vesture of the bones which were judged to be, and are undoubtedly considered to be those of the Rev. Father Juan de Jesus, missionary, who was Apostolic Preacher in the Convent of the Pueblo of Jemez, who, on the eleventh day of August, one thousand six hundred and eighty, was inhumanly killed. And having in my room said bones, with the skull, I exhibited and showed them to them in a box of medium size, with lock and key. They were arranged in two (parts), the first of damask mandarin of two colors, crimson and yellow, the other of Brittany, with a large ribbon, and in this form said bones were collected and enveloped in said box, the key thereof being given to the aforesaid Rev. Vice-custodio; and it appearing that it was his wish to bury them the next day, which is tomorrow, the eleventh of the month aforesaid; and they (meantime) remain in my said room, thence to be carried forth for interment. ‘*And for the authenticity of the aforesaid, I have signed, with my aforesaid secretary in military and civil affairs. ‘*D. Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon. ‘Before me, Alfonso Rael de Aguilar, **Secretary in Civil and Military Affairs. 'On the eleventh day of said month of August, of the date (aforesaid) and year, to carry forth for burial the bones and skull which are judged to be those of the deceased missionary, Fr. Juan de Jesus, which are in my room where I sleep, there came the Rev. Father Commissary and Vice-custodian of said Kingdom, Fr. Juan Mufios de Castro, in company with the other discreet fathers who are in this town (villa), and asked me, as did also Rev. Fathers, Missionaries, to proceed to the translation and interment of the bones and skull aforementioned, and that I should give them the certificate relating therem the circumstances in the manner narrated by me authentically in said acts, which I gave unto them immediately, and my civil and military secretary having it, I ordered it to be entered in said acts, And they proceeded totranscribed translate and inter said bones and skull, placed in said box, closed and fastened, in the chapel which is used as a parish which they did on the gospel side of the high Captain-General, church for this garrison; altar, I, said having been present with a concourse who were present in this aforesaid town. Governor of soldiers and vassals ‘Witness my hand, with that of my military and civil military secretary. “Before me, **D. Diego lego d de Vargas J Zapata ‘Alfonso Rael De Aguilar, “Secretary in Military and Civil Affairs. ’’ ian Lujan Ponce Po and de Leon. REBELLION AND INDEPENDENCE 407 It now became necessary for the captain-general to take decided steps against the Tehuas and Tanos. Winter was coming on and he determined once more to attack the THE TEHUAS AND TANOS Indians of these tribes who still held the TREAT FOR PEACE Black Mesa of San Ildefonso. With every soldier at his command, aided by 150 Queres and Jemez, De Vargas left Santa Fé on the 4th of September, assaulted the Indians upon the mesa, and was driven back with a loss of eleven men wounded, among them Captain Antonio Jorge of the Santa Fé garrison. The next day the native allies with some of the Spaniards marched up the slope, challenged the enemy, who were put to flight, two of their number being killed. The captain-general now devoted himself to cutting off the supplies of the Indians. Several times the Indians came down from the mesa and fought the Spaniards and their allies in the valley below, but each time met with defeat and retreated to their stronghold of the mesa. They became discouraged, however, and on the top finally, on the 8th, began to treat for peace, and pardon was granted them Provided they return to their villages. Inasmuch as the Jemez Indians had proved faithful allies in the campaign against the Tehuas and Tanos at San Ildefonso, De Vargas how restored to them their women and children, and on the 13th of September the chiefs of San Juan, San Cristobal, and San Lazaro reported to the captain-general that the Tehuas and turned to their villages and were rapidly restoring Tanos had retheir pueblos. De Vargas now appointed the regular pueblo officials, and in a few days started on a tour of inspection, finding everything to his satisfaction, During this tour De Vargas formally received the subMission of and granted full pardon to the pueblos who had been 0 rebellion against his authority. By the end of the year the several friars were established in their missions, the Indians being occuPied in the construction of churches and houses for their use and Service, 407 Se 407 “The The natives now seemed to have made up their minds Baneroft, H. Jacon i At istribution f+ H., History of Arizona and New Mezico, note, p. 212-213: was Geronimo as at follows: San P. Francisco Cristobal at San and (temporarily) at com. de la inquisicion, Pecos. ad at San Cristobal. and San wan Mus uan Alpuente at Cia; P. Francisco José Die de Castro, vice-eustodio “Z at Tesuque; and Corvera Ildefonso Santa Lazaro; P. Diego Zeinos J. M. Casanes at Jemez; P. José Garcia Marin at Santa Clara; and Clara; at Santa P. Fé; P. Antonio |