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Show 430 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY ‘‘Juan Garof some of the companions of the governor, as follows: town of cia de la Revas, Chief Alcalde, and the first elected, of the hand of the By August. of 26th Santa Fé, in the year 1716, on the Fé Santa to return The ez.’’ Fernand Antonio ez, Fernand Bartolo was made on the 8th of October, 1716.*°" During the time that Governor Martinez was at Zuni and Moqui the Utes and Comanches attacked the town of Taos, some other Captain pueblos and some of the Spanish settlements near by. Serna was sent with a substantial force and attacked the Indians at the Cerro de San Antonio, thirty leagues north of Santa Fé. The hostiles were decisively defeated, many of them being killed and all their own captives being taken by the Spanish captain. It afterwards developed that these captives were divided between Don Félix and his brother and sold in Nueva Viscaya, the Indians being told that they had died of the smallpox. In a memorial of 1722, all of the officers and soldiers stated that the province was in great peril during the rule of Martinez.*** In the year 1716, the viceroy of Mexico, through private sources, received many complaints concerning the conduct in office of Governor Martinez, and forthwith ordered VALVERDE Y cosio, GOVERNOR AD INTERIM ANTONIO Captain Antonio Valverde y Cosio to proceed from El Paso, assume the gov- ernorship and investigate the charges against Martinez which had reached him. Valverde did not reach Santa Fé until the 9th of December of that year, and on his arrival was received by Martinez, but the latter refused to give up his office Under the order of or to place the records in Valverde’s hands. the viceroy, however, he was compelled to go to Mexico, and, placing the government in the hands of Captain Juan Paez Hurtado, he started for the City of Mexico on the 20th day of January, 1111 487 Arch. N. Mezx., pp. 206-7. The governor accomplished nothing and i truth which he concealed in his diary of the expedition came out later ™ his residencia. In Moqui, Noticias, Ms., 671-4, it appears that the Moquis at first pretended to be well disposed but required time for deliberation, put actually spent . time allowed —5 days —in preparing for war. This expedition jg mentioned by Fernandez Duro, Noticias, p. 137. fi eoaicia, robos y enganoe voraz y insaciable su ‘‘Con Ms.: Fé, Sta. Arch. 488 manifestos, estuvo pendiente de un cabello para una total asolacion. ”’ d 489 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mexico, p. 235: ‘Valverde and took refuge illness, feigned but Paso, El to him accompany to was ordered with a friend, Padre Tagle, at the convent of San Yldefonso. As to resulting Viceroys Don Fernando Don Baltazar s ' aie 4-1740. de Alencastre de Zuniga, of New Spain Norofia y Silva, Marqués de Valero, Duke Duke of Linares, 1711-1716. Arion, 1716-1722. of aie de Acuiia, Marqués de Casa-Fuerte, 1722-1734. Juan Antonio de Vizarr6én y Eguiarreta, Archbishop of Mexico, |
