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Show 120 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES bring with him his property of every description, contribute to all community labor, procure the increase and prosperity of the town, defending with arms the firesides of his town to the fullest extent against any domestic or foreign enemy; and finally, that the person who will not reside in said town with the family belonging to him, and who shall remove to another settlement, shall lose all right he may have acquired to his property. “Tomé, September 22, 1829, JosE MANUEL TRustto.”” This petition was referred to the Territorial Deputation by the president of the ayuntamiento, Don Jacinto Sanchez, with the statement that ‘‘the only objection found being in regard to the arable land therein situated belonging to the retired Lieutenant-Colonel Bartolomé Baea, who will be satisfied with the land which, as a new settler, he may acquire, together with that which he has purchased from other settlers, promising that although he will not establish his residence there, he will cultivate and improve the lands. which may be recognized as his,’ A. “‘league’’ of land in each direction was granted by the Territorial Deputation, of which José Antonio Chavez was president, and Roman Abreti, secretary; when posSession was given, the center was named as being at ‘‘HI1 Alto del Pino de la Virgen,’’ which was situate in the middle of the cultivated fields. 388 JOSE MARIA GALLEGO. 1825. Before Bartolomé Baca, Governor. J. B. Vigil, Secretary, of Territorial Deputation. 389 JUAN EUSEBIO GARCIA pr ta MORA. County of Taos. Petition. 1826. Question of lands against Felipe Gonzales. _ Before Don Antonio Antonio Martin, Alealde. Narbona, Governor. Juan This is a dispute between Juan Eusebio de la Mora and or Gonzalez, in regard to a piece of land at or near 208. There are six papers in this archive, but they are disconnected, and insufficient to give a perfect understanding of the case. The controversy between Garcia and Gonzal ez arose in 1826, but the incipiency of the troubl e appears to have been not less than ten, and possibly more, years prior to 121 that time. Garcia claimed that Gonzalez had promised him 100 varas of land in the tract, and insinuates that Gonzalez knew that he was improperly holding the land under a false claim of being an heir of the former owner. Gonzalez denies that he had promised any land to Garcia, and asserts that such promise was made by some people were who Sanchez named living on the tract. The information contained in this archive is fragmentary, but may be of use in connection with other sources of knowledge. There is a certified copy of certain clauses of of Francisca Pacheco. The will was dated June the certified copy is by Antonio Narbona, then of New Mexico, and is dated May 18, 1826. In the will 8, 1802; governor this will she names as her only heirs her brother José, and her As executors of the will sisters Barbara and Margarita. she names her brother José Pacheco and her nephew Joaquin In Sanchez. referring to the she property owned she said, ‘‘I declare that I have at Taos one hundred and fifty varas of land.’’ Among the papers in this archive 389 is a copy of a copy, not certified, at least if it was ever certified the certificate have must upon been the lower half of the first page of the second leaf, which is now missing. It appears from this paper that in certain proceedings had in the year 1815, it was shown that Joaquin and José Sanchez had sold Petition for lands ‘‘sobrantes’’ of the Pecos. OF NEW MEXICO certain lands to the Indians of the pueblo of Taos, Joaquin at that time stating to the Indians that there were no other heirs to the property; that subsequently three other persons appeared claiming to be heirs; that upon an investigation of the matter, under orders from Governor Alberto Maynez, by Felipe Sandoval, the protector of the Indians, the Indians surrendered three portions of the land claimed by the newly discovered heirs, and were paid back — the the money which they had paid for those portion s land of the vendors, which amounted to 2,840 varas, from the boundary of their league to the north side, where the protector of Indians made them place landmarks ‘‘at the boundary cites.’’ which the grant of Captain Sebastian Martin In his petition of April 25, 1826, Garcia states that he is a son of Teodora Gallego, who claimed that she had an interest in certain lands which had been illegally sold to the Indians of Taos by Joaquin Sanchez, then deceased. This interest apparently was claimed by her because of her being an heir of Francisca Pacheco. |