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Show 232 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO female servants, and, with my wife, will make, in all, the number of twenty persons, and having a piece of land acquired by purchase, which is so small that I am compelled to borrow lands from my other immediate neighbors in order to extend my crops every year, and even in this manner I cannot support myself, nor can I maintain on said land a few sheep and four cows and some mares and horses, all of which are necessary to the support of so large a family, and which are poor for the want of pasture, and suffer a great many wants, and in order to supply them I have deemed proper to register and do register a piece of land on the other side of the river Del Norte, uncultivated and abandoned, and as such, unoccupied, there being no one having any claim thereto: the boundaries being on the north the lands enjoyed by right by the Indians of the pueblo of San Ildefonso, on the south the lands of Captain Andrés Montoya, on the east the Del Norte river, and on the west the Rocky Mountains; and, imploring the royal aid of your excellency, as a loyal subject of his Majesty, in view of all that I have stated, I pray and request that you be pleased to grant me said land in the name of hig Majesty (whom may God preserve), in order that I may settle upon it so soon as the alealde himself of Santa Cruz places me in possession all of which I expect from the charity and justice of your excelleney, and I swear by God, our Father, and the sign of the most holy cross, that my petition is not made in malice, but of necessary, ete. absolute necessity, and whatever Prepro Sancuez’’ may be [rubric] 829 ANTONIO pz SALAZAR. Grant. 1714 (14. Reported Claim | N 0. 132, Was 830 831 g. v. rejected by the court of private liad claims. CRISTOBAL pz ra SERNA. Grant. 1715. Reported Clai m No. 109. JUAN GAROCTA pr NORIEGA to Salvador stevan. Santa Fe, 1715. House and land. Juan Qarej de ] tonio Duran de Armijo ; ie me 832 House and land. 833 BARTOLOME SANCHEZ. Santa Fe, 1716. Testimomo of his grant in La Cafiada de Santa Cruz. No. 824, 827, g. v. Juan Garcia de la Rivas, Alcalde. 8384 BARTOLOME SANCHEZ. Santa Fe, 1716. Complaint against Salvador de Santistevan. Bartolomé Lobato; Nicolas Griego; Xptobal Crespin; Juan de Mestas. In the matter of their occupancy of his grant. Nos. 824, 827, and 833, g. v. No final action. Phelix Martinez, Governor. Nos. 167, 170, 483, 485, 436, and 487, gq. v. 885 FRANCISCO XAVIER ROMERO to Maria de Selorga. 1718. House and land in La Cafiada de Santa Cruz. Francisco Bueno de Bohorquez y Corcuera, Alcalde. Juan de Paz Bustillos; Gregorio Gardufio; Diego Arias de Quiros. 836 ANDRES MONTOYA to Bernardino de Sena. Santa Fe, 1723. Land on the other side of Rio de Santa Fe. Bohorques, Alealde. Pedro Lopez Gallardo; Miguel de Sandoval Martinez; Juan Manuel Chirinos. 837 JOSEPH pz SANTIESTEVAN and Josepha Montoya, his wife, to Bernardo de Sena. Santa Fe, 1729. Lands. Joseph Miguel Joseph de la Vega y Coca, Alcalde. Juan Lobato; Juan Manuel Chirinos. The Cuyamungue Grant, Reported No. 64, was known as the Bernardo de Sena Grant. When this grant was first surveyed, in 1877, there was a conflict between the survey and those of the grants to the pueblos of Nambé and Pojoaque. The grant was never confirmed by Congress, but the title was confirmed by the court of private land claims October 24, 1895. The case was i . a Santa appealed to the supreme court of the United States, where the decision was reversed, a new survey orBy this the conflicts dered and a new decree was entered. The Cuyamungue is bounded on the north were removed. de Santie- MIGUEL DURAN to Dom ingo Martin Serrano. Fe, 1715. 233 by the Pojoaque and the Nambé grants and on the south This grant is by the grant to the pueblo of Tesuque. sometimes called the Bernardo Sena Grant and should not be confused with the Alfonso Rael de Aguilar or Pueblo of Cuyamungue Grant, Reported No. 81, which was rejected by the court of private land claims. |
