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Show 94 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES league, on the east by the Del Norte river; and on the west by the table-land of Las Casitas, which they call that of Cubero and Los Apaches. This grant was confirmed by the court of private land claims on December 20, 1898, and has been surveyed . BARTOLOME FERNANDEZ appears in the La Majada Grant, q. v. Domingo Fernandez ; José Gutierrez, Alcalde; Francisco Ignacio de Madaria ga, Asesoér; Fr. Francisco de Hozio, Cura of Santa Fe ; José Petronilo Gutierrez, Alealde; Juan de Abrego; Melgares, Governor. 282 DOMINGO FERNANDEZ. Reported 283 DOMINGO Grant. Claim No. 19, a a, FERNANDEZ ee i H 5 “. PT Ak, hg ad ee og PEtPeete e he ee Pn oe Fhe al cae ae Be i tes er int Soded Sa PED Le AG + @ Ppt 5 Pd el 80 Oil e#- FO dd PaaS i * Pe SE Faroe Petes Pies? meebteseraTs oe NAA eedae Cadiad i Lh mrPare CL ead ** Cael BIRD AMA A ®- CeCe lad “et es fs et ee | ca ? Pee te eens a Pe iat ae J — Fhe Pee et tee eS Piel tae es oiat het tel telPie Be ee ee Oe ‘ za ee oe) et] POO -.* er be oe ee Oe a C Ca ial Bae todPeed Sed Yt Piet ee AD iad Sed Rhea ee Sd Not approved. Domingo Fernandez was t he original petitioner to the Spanish government for the grant known as the Eaton or San Cristobal, situate in Santa Fe county, N. M. He States that he was a ‘“‘son and descenda nt of the conquero L rs and pacifiers of this Kingdom of New Mexico.’ His petition for {the grant, which he registe red as ‘‘El Pueblo ‘ de San C ristobal,’’ is unique in and recites a number of facts of historical its phraseology interest. His petition was filed with the April 26, 1822, at which time he says ‘‘th e ruinsgovernor, of the pueblo may be seen and the walls of a s acred temple in a dilapidated condition and almost enti rely razed to the which calls my attention speaking with ingenuity, ground, as upon seeing that sacred place where upon so many occasions the sacred and awful sacrifice 0 f the mass has been offered, and where the most august sa crament was consecrated ; considering that it is more than one hundre who inhabited it have abandone d years since the natives d it, and it appears that Divine Omnipotence each day e ndeavours “2 reat a purpose, to make known to us that it sustains the foun dations of this holy place, which is suffering under the disgrace of being a habitation for beasts, a stable for sheep and a manger for cows and calves, and, in a word, a lodgin g for brutes. His Divine Majesty knows that by the sole efforts of His great power and inscru table p rovidence he has moved my not pos- that it may and varice, ctoly. ye shoal that I solicit said land oa wee oneal e sion let: the proof beSit made,aes let ich permis I promise 7 to de i my curepairing Lea ‘ce monies it, which Pp ae aed allow, and I will be ess md neste to our most illustrious bishop, In 0 h the pastoral rmed therein, althoug the ep principal may be perfo that privilege, this being ee us a ieee T have in view in my petition. ist Fernandez : The citizens of Santa Fe who were to it receive land according to rite a entexpour le behavi in this laudab “ an Oe dez, d P s: follow as eee inet s a a and OTHERS. Petition for lands in the place commonly called Pueblo de Pecos. 1823-24. Before Bartolomé Baca, Governor and Jefe Politico. Read in session of Februar y 16, 1824, of the Territorial Deputation. 95 NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF OF NEW MEXICO i Boe de Jesus Rivera, or OM Juan a Lobato, Matta Rivera, Ignacio sf st a Tot Mariano entino e cae ee nom andOrtiz,José ¢ de JesusSe. Chaves, ea oh aca, ° 66 biter i 9 committee by Don shag e se with all such of the illustrious coed gene eins - aut are oe visited the locality and piesa a it 38 titioners sn labor ie : rewarded for pea (the Indians) did, oo ee father with ‘lie’ t 7 labor they toare fillaided from ifheaven God as, 0 ineaetruth, from their bytank, e ben the od isting springs they_will reap "He did not secure Th ‘fe ant was made to Fernandez. fil d another petirn ‘aii however and five years nee ‘ from informa- fon in which he states among others tha necetved tion 2100 a 2 Si named Ramon the water Oe ee resence of two withes up; also Soihe thd “a ‘sbunidantt and that 1t 1s meine eer aments and sacred vessels are ther with the oaid to show me and discover, toge teada tno ‘ornamental? referred to sat SpaAlion as - Eee ee s at the time k +5 theed Indian of t peiterends to Yeas He Fesciv the amttié information in re out Ls isco, oy the ** fromdedFranci as ntsrewar or sco, requested, White- , or Oeelled.a rable report was made by Te ft ae the ddvtacino sto Don lian Lue, ha "erat as male © ea of er nta a Fe, Snake July who 26, 1827, - oF 2 ant of GaCity with Don the leu oe D om as Penida ust 21, 182/, : sion was and thirty men, and posses |