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Show oJ eee tadpeo-+-4 Pot a Py dh ee ¥ ae 2 * ete ein*eerie’ 4 wet ereate tet tet AC A P pete e ies inte OF NEW MEXICO 129 hehrfe THE SPANISH ARCHIVES San Blas del Rio Puerco protested. This availed them nothing, however, as Jaramillo was put in possession and the governor in discussing some of the things done by the settlers in times past, Says: ‘‘they stupidly and maliciously altered the testimonio of the grant and the act of possession wherever ‘leagues’ were mentioned, as appears from the original,’’ and on account of the expression made by Juan Bautista Montafio, before the above mentioned alealde (Trebol Navarro), when executing the act of possession given to the residents of Atrisco, that those alterations were made by my predecessor aforesaid, I order that a writ be issued, commanding the said Montafio to appear before me in this, my tribunal, it being in- credible that my predecessor could have done because said testimonio has always remained session of said settlers, was made in the time decessor, Francisco Antonio Marin del Valle, had altered the testimonio he would have also original, and in case he desired to extend the he would have done so in due form and not by the document, which I direct remain on file fice that the fact may at all times appear. ’’ 422 JUAN LUSERO So, as well in the posof my pre- for if he altered the boundaries destroying in this of. pz GODOY. Grant. Land near Santa Fe. 1693. Before Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon, Governor and Cap- ra oe S tae + ~~ o i s.7.@¢ et et ae ee ee ee eee (eee et ee 0 et a ee ld a ee Pee ot ae oe Fe te ad Peat taal &-~¢ #Pre eee Ss fae coo a Bi” tae ce he " PAA @& # oad et he A He pen 2 ¢ ~~ ‘ FF hae -~'-* tain-General. Re-validated in the year 1695. Alfonzo Rael de Aguilar. Also written ‘* Alphonso”? i this same document. ‘“To his excellency the governor and captain-general, I, the adjutant, Antonio Lusero de Godoy, alderman of this town of Santa Fe, and inhabitant of these provinees of New Mexico, native of the Same, appear before your excellency in the best form allowed me by law and say that in order to better continue in the community of this said town and in the royal service of his majesty, I need a tract for a house at the place where at present day I have a shanty standing in which I live, situate in the direction of the road to the pueblo of Tesuque, upon some low hills (lomas vajas) that are there together with the lands that surround them which on the north adjoin with a dry gulch (arroyo seco) that comes down from the mountains a a oe el Pal + Ce eee eer e ee ee a tad eee oe ee ee ee * co 0 oe ee ee ° +ea * et ee ee ee Cea el oe oe a ee” et ee Ms e8 * *-* (sierra), and on the east they adjoin with the trail (vereda) that leads to the pueblo of Tesuque, and on the west with lands of the Sergeant Major Juan Lusero de Godoy, my father, and on the side of the river which is |