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Show following this is another ia co eavy ae sp “sab — bayped c ot ing — © freshet; next follows another tract of and owned by the community of the ring 1s the farm which be- : = house only are visible, and there is room tamuy only; next follows the farm which be- captain-general of with the said governcr and captain-general ence of his civil and military secretary. ‘SDon D1reGo DE VARGAS ZAPATA LuJAN in the pres- ae ‘“Tu1s GraniLLo ‘‘Before me: ‘‘AppHONSSO RAEL DE AgGuiLaR [rubric] ‘¢Civil and Military Secretary’’ i 9 pes el ed ‘ * FS pt . SS! fe pm Oe ed ~ Par" ene [rubric] art PEPE °-t4-4 nr Se ee Sn ae de er eres rar i ee ed * PLO PRP POegPg * Pier eadee oS ee6-0 a * FS DS- Bt Oe es— r ere o— 8 ea OO: Pee and this kingdom, Sefior Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponze de Leon, and by direction and order of his excelleney I left and delivered the original into his hands, and in order that it may so appear I signed the same #8 family; going proceedings to the governor elO- one farm, - : a to Marcos de Herrera, and the said farm oe . elent for one family, the house, because of a he — to the said arroyo or rivulet, was carried it, and SEE * * OSLe LY e e ee Pe : i to Diego Lopez, and there is a tower left adjoined his house, there being land I signed and 0.2 2 which proceedings, ee ao) cy 4 ieee hae of the eo and I examined the following farms: first, there is lt the said arroyo the farm of which belonged to a Montoya, on which there is only the ruin of Pi oe in ia he lived, and there are lands sufficient — ee y only; and there adjoins this another farm, te e mee it a part I proceeded to the pueblo of Santa Clara, in order to sleep there; dated ut supra. ‘Tus GRANILLO [rubric] ‘¢ Arrival of the said lieutenant-general at the city of Santa Fe, at which place he returns the order of the said governor and captain-general with the proceedings had in obedience thereto. ‘‘On the twenty-third day of the present month of the date and year, I, the said lieutenant-general, having arrived at the city of Santa Fe, made report of the fore- ee — “ made a is but es there A house a of whose one room s Oe and it has land sufficient for one family only; ra ss finished. making the inspection of the said oe , the said lieutenant-general, procee ded to the : part of the arroyo, which lies between them and escends the said Cafiada, the Rio del Norte being on the ei for two families; and this is followed by that of ro de la Cruz, a : longed to Ambrosio Saez, in the houses of which there are now living, as they were during the past year of one thousand six hundred and ninety-four, part of the Tegua Indians, rebels from the pueblo of Tesuque making use of the said lands, for which reason the houses are in good condition, and on this farm two other families can be settled ; and there is also in the middle of the said meadow the farm on which Agustin Romero was settled during the planting season because he had his cultivable land on the said tract, and here one family can live very well; and so descending along the Rio del Norte and the Mesa de San Ildefonso, the ruins of the said house are seen, and the land is sufficient only for one family; and the said farms are those which are found as aforesaid, from the said mouth of the Cafiada as named, with the owners who lived in them and were settled on them; and I, the said lieutenant-general, then returned with Sergeant Juan Ruiz, who accompanied me on the said inspection, and he knows the said places because of always having lived near them and of having been raised there; and the said report 1s true and certain, and in order that it may so appear, i paee e) belonged to Nicolas de la Cruz, the house on which is standing and occupied by his widow, the land being sufficient for the support of her family only, and the pastures are in the same proportion; and followi ng this is the land which belonged to Melchor de Archule ta, the ruin of the house only remaining, and there are about sufficient lands for one family, with pasture s to correspond ; and following along the said plain and meadow there 1s another farm, which belonged to Juan Griego and this is a better piece of land than any of the others, because of its extent, it being sufficient for two families, dividing the agricultural land between them and giving them the pastures in common; and next there follows another farm, which belonged to Sebastian Gonzales, and now held by Captain Alonso del Rio, and in this two others had shares, so that there is room for three families to settle on the said tract, and the lands are of superior quality ; and next is the farm which belong ed to Francisco Xavier, the house in ruins and a little “a although he lived on it alone, the tower standing tract has abunoss land 251 6 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO |i THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXI CO Es 290 |