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Show 124 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES 404 MARIA vz Hurtado. PALACIOS OF NEW MEXICO vy BOLIVAR to Juan Santa Fe, January 13, 1716. THE SPANISH ARCHIVES Conveyance of a house and lot. Before Juan Garcia de la Riva. Alphonso Rael de Aguilar (Abbreviated sig.); Joseph Maria Giltomey. 405 MARIA HURTADO. Will. Santa Fe, December 28, 1725. seph de la Vega y Coca, Alcalde. Tomas de Sena, 406 JUAN MANUEL Before Miguel Jo- Juan Manuel Chirinos; pz HERRERA. Will. Villa Nueva de Santa Cruz, June 12, 1753. Before Juan Joseph Lovato, Alealde. Francisco Valdes y Bustos; Pablo Truxillo. 407 JOSEPH GARDUNO Fe, June 16, 1784. to Joseph de Herrera. Santa Conveyance of a house and lot. Before Nicolas Ortiz, Alealde. Juan Antonio Hortiz (Ortiz) ; Nicolas Rael; Juan Joseph de Icuza y Elisondo. 408 ANTONIO GONZALES to Juan Bautista de Herrera. Santa Fe, April 8, 1755. Conveyance of land. Before F i G calde. Manuel Begil (Vigil); Juan Anton in Oct” Al- 409 BARTOLA HURTADO, wido w of J oseph Bustamante. Santa Fe, May 13, 1762. eae a“ oe omas ; de _ estate. Armijo; Pedro Tafoya; Nicolas Ortiz, JOHN Before Manuel pe Gallego, a Mi Joseph ome, Garay, HEATH. Petida tion Re n for land nds s at the Bracito. 1 Biles oo rt Copy 125 fields. He was advised to make a settlement of this locality by the Lieutenant-Colonel Don Alberto Maynes. Don Juan lived amicably with the Apaches in this locality, as he says: ‘‘The Chiefs of the Apaches have told me that next year they desire to have their lands planted, and if said settlement is established, aided by the citizens of the town of El Paso and the new settlers, I will plant their lands so as to keep them more quiet.’’ In 1805, upon a similar petition from Garcia de Noriega, it was denied by Alencaster, then governor of New Don Juan died at his ranch of Bracito in the Mexico. year 1828. Juan Maria Ponce Leon, political chief of the Bravos district, in March, 1849, certified ‘‘that D. Juan almost at his own expense kept the Apaches at peace, and rendered other useful services to travellers and even to the entire nation, until the savages by their insurrections and hostilities forced him to withdraw from said place; the land itself proves that it has been cultivated, as it is crossed by acequias; some of the land is irrigated and the ruins of the house still exist. ‘*T also know, not remembering VIDUAL (Heath) of pro- of John Heath was not confirmed by the nd claims. The Bracito Tract was Juan Antonio Garcia de Nor iega, a OF THE UNITED the year, that an INDI- STATES, named John Gid asked for and received a GRANT OF at LAND the same place from the Mexican authorities, respecting those of Don Juan Gareia: THIS HE AFFIRMS, having been one of the Commissioners in the measurement of the land asked for, and at the request of the party interested.”’ It is quite interesting to know that the claim of John Heath (Juan Gid) to a grant of land at this place failed because his descendants did not know from what source the grant 1823 OF NEW MEXICO Paez been had of Durango, obtained; it came from and not from the New Mexican In the testimony taken before the New Mexico, Pelham, it also appears the occupation the governor authorities. surveyor-general that at the time of of of the city of El Paso by the American troops under General A. W. Doniphan, the town hall of El Paso was made headquarters by Doniphan, at which place all of the archives were kept. This is sworn to by Don Juan José Sanchez, who also says: nia sitation In the year 1816 in the valley between Rincon and El Paso there of locusts which destroyed all the of the R e a jeter cultivated ‘*T was first justice at that time, and that as such Captain Waldo, doctor of medicine, and belonging to the said army, informed him that the soldiers were entirely destroying the archives, and that for that reason he went there immediately, with several others, and collected the |