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Show THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO ‘“‘T whom am this city has anxious and troubled 884 JUAN JOSE SILVIA. because I despatched on the fourteenth of J ee ier ery (a Cd $ Pe Thre) io" PE FL FG) afi erie ** PFs Pe . Ps re POS > SS Ae bY Se]Paes Pe Pee oe) ae Pe = oeee oe end a . 883 LaCienega. No date. Complaint that he is forbidden to graze his stock on the common lands. No action taken. es Pt Te ot SEis Pi ow) Ps .7 aAer Ras ae 7 -# a ete tateta. i Ps ee ee i S Pd Pe Pe Pk Peee er eg e ee oo ae ae ae ee ee NA oe ADEA AE to EDP maize e+ mee eee of 0 ¢ transportation IeN trouble because of the distance of the ‘ew Biscay and of there being no resources +. 0:6 the cb eo ka a ee Dar sipped | a rue sir, etc., ‘‘Don Diego DE VARGAS ZAPATA LUJAN PoNzE DE LEON”’ [rubric] DON FERNANDEZ De TAOS. 1796. Possession. Reported Claim No. 125. ar |i a im ‘‘Most excellent gener- ed Joe the ee on ree living i y and magnificence of your excellency, and it is very MD years. Done in Santa Fe, on the ninth day of the month of May, one thousand six hundred and ninety-five. ee and he has to say and and I did not wish to omit to give your excellency this information, together with the above, as I desire to serve your excellency in all things; and may God preserve your excellency for many happy and settle another town with we have received and lodged as at present I will hear what of it accordingly, Sa judge aang In this city of Santa Fe, and I will see that both rations asked the alealde (dm live until his return shall plant crops in order that they may be relieved from ee came to see me, and I having mayor why he had not detained them, he replied that the leader of the band had said that he would return with all his people in September, and if God will permit me to BERLAE 21 BS SL PEL OE Bt Ba ister, who Pere i willing, I will found eee said families which + * AAPL ee PL Parse ¢-9, Aree oi 9-4 8-0 @ 09 0-9-4BPRS suc- ee having ceeded in all that which I might and could desire for the royal service of His Majesty in the Villa Nueva de Santa Cruz de los Vecinos Mexicanos del Rey Nuestro Sefior Don Carlos Segundo in a pueblo which the rebels of the Thanos tribe had newly founded on lands which had belonged to Spaniards, and by the means which I devised for the accomplishment of this difficult enterprise I succeeded, as will be shown by the orders and proceedings had of which I forward a certified copy to your excellency and this, upon examination and consideration, will prove to your excelleney that I have been successful, and that I have secured at a short distance another larger town of the said tribe which is vacant and free ik I have secured it for the month of October, when, an and by also RENE SES of this kingdom, vacated excellency * were your ed he a sent for the settlement which which ee Pe, i ee * families ae in the houses ff them Mexican tot 2 Oe * 9 ee also to lodge the sixty oe ee re +--+ * ~ AM = $= ‘Most Excellent Sir: a en Captain Juan Paez Hurtado, chief commisSloner appointed by me to bring the families which by order of your excellency he procured and obtained in the city of Zacatecas, having arrived at this city of Santa Fe and having entered the plaza of the same to the number of forty-four families, which I received and inspected personally, I going to the said plaza for the purpose, and SERS ea coat Ye) " present year to your excellency has not returned, and this also induces me to send this despatch, in order that I may ascertain the reason of his delay or know whether he has been robbed or murdered; and I beg that your excellency will send me duplicates of the orders and despatches which your excellency may have been pleased to forward to me by the said courier in order that I may on my part duly execute the same; and I also hope that your excellency has received the order that with the same your excellency may decide upon the reply to my letters of consultation forwarded by your excellency to the supreme and royal council of the Indies, as in this expectation I have delayed the said settlers in order that through its means they may be assured of their establishment; and two missions have also been established, Nambé and the said Villa Nueva, the doctrinal father serving the united pueblo of the said Thanos. ‘While I was absent from this city there arrived a band of Apaches from the east, who are called Chiyenes, and they told in the town at which they arrived which is of the Picuriés tribe, how some men, white and lighthaired, had destroyed a very large tribe of the Apaches Conejeros, living much further inland than their own. The Chiyenes then returned whence they came. This was told to me by the alealde mayor and the father min- said city of Santa Fe on the said day, month, and year, with my civil and military secretary. ‘‘Don Diego DE Varcas Zapata Lugan Ponze pe Leon ‘*Before me: ‘ALPHONSSO RaEL pE AguiLaR [rubric] “Civil and Military Secretary’’ 265 * 264 |
