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Show SARK ERANRI BTN w johnsone , Sieh oa Es LS ete eteeei rt, eo See eR eS ba RSP ae SP Se te nee , ie ~ Oe 4 re ‘a ae i gr ay oer bgt aRele e AS e ay tate Sr se Teele 7 ee din, es COE e e at per ay LedPEP) © mes. PRES Sire PAE iH RT oJfd tag bir PY 5 peaeeeney pee ETL Pre Bi ben) sige? et % + sees estas not to build a house or make a settlement at the only point for a watering place on the Rio del Norte and to seseene to the governor what he had done 2 snipe 17, 1763, Fernandez, chief alcalde of San- chniher eirs of : grant oe rar iio “oe — ciel i 1e time, made report that he had notified the Juana Lujan and that they had exhibited to him given to Matias Madrid by Don Pedro Rodriguez the possession being given by Roque Madrid with Mr Juan Paez Hurtado; also a deed by = rid to Juana Lujan, made before Captain Sesoe and re-validated by the inspector, Juan - 0; and also a certified copy of a decision emp officer. The alcalde ordered the docu- — a found onrena : i € archive ice in question. oe aorta 17, 1763, Fernandez measured the dispeorlbe mt gate of the cemetery in the pueblo, which ia : ~~ to the boundary of the land claimed nae a gina Lujan, a distance of 2,200 varas = a. a € measurement in the same direction oo tyros . east side ie A a a m7 —- , eee , - need i : oundary which said heirs recognized as nena . em from the lands of the heirs of Ygnacio pied hee a further distance of 1,650 varas. This tase seamed f rs an arroyo, the nearest one to the prinat eens Lujan. From the measurements it the lands claimed by the latter’s heirs were at ag i SOpiensa cemetery. 2. began at De north wall of the Lucero PEELFasad ey. ER os htoehda LF tt . ae. aa at J RIES bf Indian ceedings) the verbal statement was made by the the time from Tesuque, Francisco (El Coyote) that from had he paid the money back to Marcos Lucero the latter benot planted the lands, which as a matter of fact were was living in ing planted by Francisco, although Lucero purchased the house which he had built, not on the lands but on those he had inherited. at the Also, on February 18, 1763, Fernandez began and measIldefonso San of cemetery the of wall western varas, at which ured west therefrom a distance of 3,200 point he was north of the house of Pedro He Sanchez. varas further then continued the measurement west 1,800 belonging to the to the end of the league of 5,000 varas pueblo. uses In closing t he proceedings for that day the alcalde it results the following language: ‘‘Hrom measurements said Pueblo all that that there remains to the na tives of this and west measurewhich the two extremities 0 f the north in, which might be ments comprise as far as t he mounta between the two difour leagues in length, for commons rections mentioned.’’ On February 20, 1763, the alealde summoned before s had accused of him Antonio Mestas, whom the Indian other side of the the on ranch a sh establi intending to a practical descent river at the only place where there was The alealde informed Mestas from the Pajarito mesa. Mestas said that he of the order of the governor and at any time had he would obey it; that neither then nor intended to settle the place. Having complied with the orders of the governor the Y area eeot er uerarer _ “| re oe Td wees Ee . ‘ eEPE ara Sl PS as 1 eres a ee teres Per a (they were purchased by Fran- ineisco Lujan) under whom Lucero claimed by right of proheritance (see the protest at the beginning of the , On the 18th, Fernandez chased by Marcos oF permitting While this party who had been present at this measure- ment were all together on the lands which had been pur- ttnOLS without del Castillo. These 61 varas reached the boundary of Juan Esteban Canjuebe, a citizen of Santa Clara. a returned varas, claimed by the heirs of Gomez rr been him the slightest recourse; to examine the site of the _ of Pedro Sanchez as to whether it is on lands which a or ought to belong to the pueblo; to notify Antonio of 628 varas he arrived at a point 5,000 varas, or one Spanish league, from the point of beginning. This distance took in the house and all the lands, except 61 HTP eS eAtetich had the land for a distance OOD OLE Se PEPfete the price ejecting the latter from of the land claimed by said ‘“Tcero and other heirs of Francisco Gomez del Castillo.”’ Thence continuing the measurement in the same direction et Lien Prarie oe Peel * aerien ee Pe PLS PPP POPE PCPS De PPAEh Peel bP Prat PASTE ee POLAT which Lucero, varas he came to the boundary as grants or titles under which Matias Madrid had sold to Juana Lujan; to measure the distance from the church in the pueblo to the ranch; to measure also toward the ranch church in San Yldefonzo and measured directly toward the house of Marcos Lucero and at a distance of 4,372 ae Mestas, a citizen of Chama and son-in-law of Sanchez proposed to establish a ranch on the other side of the river, opposite the Caja del Rio, at the only place where there is a practical descent from the Pajarito mesa, ete In view of all this the Indians asked relief from ‘the damage they suffered and that their league in three direc<_ should be oe and given to them. e governor, Cachupin, acted and commissioned, February 4, 1763, Don Carlos Fernandez to examine . of Marcos 409 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO cs ee * are. 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