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Show r BPC ee AP eee Tay ae eigen hRP Stae ? SS PRs cn lea 14 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO fi ed hl BB 6-8 AEE ie eed Bh we Gm fe 2.7.8 ws ~ pt , m dl Par Ee ee ee Pe ee Saal . MMM PidFind od AEM Hel SadYoelelroDP ME BadDob lrall wet Pea) bal° Pd” Seed jl Sab 5 Gt Pte fe ase? er PP Pl al ee f 0-0 ~ bPbd be ye PJ r CM Fe A a fmt BA aot feFp Bel et ewSoe SoteedBe? So pel vey Case | Sad aAa Parl 1s F 6.2285 Fy PED URE RS RAE E> SE Boe AL EAE BE PTR PME RT A) be PEEPS IPS oe RP RRCPP ee Sig hie esse e eet Cans Cy Sich NO Peso IES ar ear ote i ad 27 ars Th oo 8 Rieneig TS be le a lege et lal@ fea ee eat RE bar tl RPL at rene Rt es Pe ai at H * ae ¢ : Ce See ene ,Pid (md (ee i , LJ ? . : 7 A. ie Pe ie oy ae ee yt: a Ty ar nt a ey . t* i +; J ments now in my possession. As late as 1705 he was a resident of the little town of Bernalillo, on the Rio Grande. Felipe de Tamaris, a soldier of the Santa Fe garrison, who had accompanied Villasur to the Platte, brought the Of Meusnier I have not been able to find any news of the defeat of the Spaniards by the French and further trace as yet. ae the age in New and of whom it is surmised, at least, that they are of French te urthermore, I had met, in documents anteating 1720, the name and declarations of a Captain Juan de Archeveque. It was but natural to suspect that the Captain of the War Councils of 1715 and of 1720 was the same man as the private soldier of 1699 ; the more so Since at the latter council, where the project of the illfated reconnoissance to the Arkansas river was discussed, uae said Capt. Archibeque strongly recommended it, ala . a Oe along other reasons, that it would Eg cure ita aoe definite information in regard to ‘hi ‘his count : ry - ‘‘Researches at the archives of th e U. S. Surveyor= S office at Santa Fe brought to light loon which impart valuable information. There is in the first place a transfer to Juan de Archib é oe certain real estate j eque, ‘a soldier,’ of there is the Pawnees, interest to me rested in the person of reneveque, the more so since there is to-day Mexico a family calling themselves Agee tba Inven os " ‘ ated, and that he, with some forty -three » was killed there by the on the 17th of August of the same Ley P ee ee gather that Archibeque was twice marveg ~ e : two legitimate and two illegitimate chil7 atter leaving the military service he became si eae trader, extending his trad ing tours to Sonora ee buying directly at the City of Mexico. His iets, aver settlement, yield ed 6,118 pesos to the heirs amount quite respectable at the time. Upon a seco visit to Sant nd fae ok I found there at last the 1° encia Dilig . Archeueque alias Archib e ue. It b age Pal and his (first) wife was the ee m+? on aia in 1694 near Zacatecas by of Thome a mulatto. oo a native of Tezcuco, in the valley of 15 on the 6th of September, a few other survivors. i J ORME TH pe ATIENZA. April 14, 1722. } Villa Nueva 1720. There de Santa were Cruz, A petition for land. It was referred on the same day to Captain Alonzo Rael de Aguilar by Don Juan Domingo de Bustamante, governor and captain-general. Captain Alonzo Rael de Aguilar was one of the reconqustadores ; he was secretary of government and war. The tract known as ‘‘Cerrillos’’ was granted to him by General De Vargas at the time of the first entrada, as appears from the following archives: On the 20th of April, 1788, Josef Miguel de la Pefia asked for a piece of land called ‘‘Los Cerrillos’? which said tract ‘‘when this province was conquered belonged to Don Alonzo Rael de Aguilar, who was my wife, Maria Rael’s grandfather, and having left it so many years unoccupied, and Don Alonzo having lost the right he had to it,’’? possession was given to the applicant and the other heirs of Don Alonzo de Aguilar by Don Josef Antonio Ortiz under orders of the lieutenant-colonel and political governor, Don Fernando de la Concha; the boundaries of the land being on the north the Cafiada Guicu and lands of Los Bacas; on the south by the Cerros Altos; on the east by the road that goes to Galisteo. Mention is made of lands belonging to Don Cleto Miera y Pacheco. Josef Miguel de la Pefia, for the sum of $450.00, in 1791, sold the property to Don Cleto de Miera. This property later belonged to Colonel Manuel Delgado, who was second in command in New Mexico under General de la Concha. Upon this property was a mine known as the **Mina del Toro.’’ The heirs in the year 1750 of the conquistador Alfonso Rael de Aguilar were: Eusebio de Aguilar; Juan Rael de Aguilar; Antonia Teresa Rael de Aguilar; Francisco Rael de Aguilar; and children of the deceased Alfonso Rael de Aguilar, and the children of Feliciano Rael de Aguilar. Don Diego de Vargas granted the Cerrillos tract to the elder Alfonso Rael de Aguilar. In the year 1696 the elder Rael de Aguilar retired from Los Cerrillos by the order of General de Vargas, where he had lived four years |
