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Show THESPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 378 JOSE GARCIA pe ta Mora. SurveyorGrant. 1807. File No. 783, Vallecito Grant. General’s office. Vallecito was settled in 1824 with fifty-two settlers. The place is about twenty-five miles from Abiquit. The place was abandoned in 1844 owing to the war with the Utes; the settlers returned in 1846. General José Maria Chaves was an officer in this campaign against the Utes. He had been a lieutenant under the Spanish government; under the Mexican government he was made a captain of a squadron of militia, auxilliary to the regular garrison, and was also military inspector of the frontier district of Abiquiti, El Rito, and Ojo Caliente. He frequently commanded the Mexican military forces in campaigns against the Utes and Navajos. Under the American government he was prefect of Rio Arriba three times and during the Civil War and afterward was brigadier general of militia of the district of northern New Mexico; he was seven times a member of the Territorial Legislature; during the Mexican regime he was alealde for the district of Abiquiu, a judicial position about equal to a county WFUur eee ene: THE SPANISH ARCHIVES 114 judge. General Chavez was born in New Mexico, September 25, 1801, and with his parents removed to Abiquiii when he was three years of age. He died at the age of 101 years. 379 ANTONIO GARCIA vs. BARBARA BERNAL. Letter of Cleto Miera y Pacheco, Alcalde, 1808. Addressed to Don José Manrique, ernor. 380 VALLECTIO Grant. pz XEMES. Question of boundaries. rique, Governor. 1808. Miguel Montoya; Before Don José Man- Ignacio Sanchez Vergara, calde; Josef Tapia, Juez zales; November 2, Acting Gov- Commissionado; Pablo Al- Thorivio Gon- Montoya. Town of Vallecito or Santo Toribio de Jemez Grant. This claim was rejected by the court of private land claims. It was supposed to lie just north of the grant to the pueblo of Jemez. 381 LUCIANO GARCIA MIERA. 1815. vs. ESTATE Before Maynez, Governor. money OF ANACLETO of a house in San José de las Huertas. Bernalillo 115 county. Juan José Gutierres, Alealde; Josef Mariano de la Peha, Alealde; José Marcos Baca. 382 XAVIER GARCIA, et al. The Socorro Tract. Reported Claim No. 107. The present city of Socorro is built upon the site of a Piro pueblo, named Pil-a-bo. The Franciscan mission was founded there in 1626; had a church and a convent, which was dedicated to the ‘‘ Virgen del Socorro’’ — Virgin of Relief. The pueblo and all were abandoned in 1680, the greater portion of the people following the Spaniards to Paso_del Norte. The dedication to the Virgin of Relief was made in honor of Juan de Onate, who secured large quantities of provisions from the pueblo of Teypama, just across the Rio Grande from this point. The church was still standing in 1692, when De Vargas came up the valley ; the roof had been burned. See Escalante — Relacion, p. 187. In 1725 the ruins of the pueblo could be plainly seen. Rivera, Diario y Derrotero. There are a great many ruins of ancient pueblos in the vicinity of the present town of Socorro. There is a ruin at El Barro, three miles north of the town, and also at the Hot Springs, close to the mountain, three miles west. Those at the Hot Springs are almost obliterated; they stand on two bare promontories or small knolls, separated by an arroyo or gulch. There is to be found opposite to the promontory of El Barro, in the Arroyo de la Parida, the ruin of a large pueblo, which consisted of at least three edifices. This pueblo was built of adobe and in all probability was two or three stories in height. This grant was claimed to contain 843,259 acres and was filed with the court of private land claims by Eutimio Montoya, of San Antonio, New Mexico. The claim vs. PEDRO MI- was rejected by the court. 383 MARIA VICTORIA GUTIERREZ GUEL GUTIERREZ. 1820. Before Facundo Melgares, Governor. Bernalillo county. José Francisco Question of lands. Ortiz, Alealde; Pedro Miguel Gutierrez; Santiago Moya; Juan Isidro Gutierrez; Pedro Armendariz; Pedro Bautista Gutierrez; Joaquin de Luna; Perea. For the recovery of purchase OF NEW MEXICO Pino; José Petronilo José Gutierres; Pedro José Controversy between Maria Victoria Gutierrez and her brother, Pedro Miguel Gutierrez, in regard to the owner- |
