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Show AL + bd PS a Ha Via ie id i Ss . al Wt Ph OE Oia a + "BF - ed * te oa het st al) er ae ¢_+_¢-#. #.9_@.+-8.* a * Pe eet ee ee el Pi ae el le et i ’ Juan, vacant the and land standing and dwelling unoccupied houses today, of be- cause of their having been abandoned only a few years ago on account of their having gone to settle on the lands of the Spaniards, and where they are today living and settled; and whereas I have conferred with the said governors of the said pueblos in regard to the above reasons and the royal will, and I, the said governor and captain- wherewith to maintain themselves and secure their support, without running the risk of a failure and the loss of their supplies by working new lands; and these (the Spaniards) even at great cost are not yet secure among the said natives, but are discouraged and intimidated, not the measure and the amount of their legi- and have might go there in the coming winter, giving them per- and have settlers in the said planting season, so as not to having a place to go to thereafter with his said people, them secured gard to their dwelling houses, they having acequias open on the said lands and tracts, as well as their general, not being informed said natives of San Lazaro, of the settlement which in the said pueblo the of San Juan, had granted and designated to their governor, Don Cristoval Yope, the place of Yunque, in order that they mission and consent to plant the said lands this year, he which number sixteen families, their whole number being hundred and fifty-five persons, according to what I one am informed and as appears by the list of the same made by the reverend father preacher, Brother Antonio Obregon, their father minister, doctrinal teacher, and guardjan; I hereby direct my said lieutenant-general and their said alcalde mayor and interpreter, Matias Lujan, to say and intimate to the said natives and their said governor, Don Cristoval Yope, that they must go to their said land which they have in the said pueblo of San Juan, which they had in the Same, as well as the lands which were oet San timate value (of the lands), and besides, the risk of a new loss to the royal Crown, and also the labor of worki. ing for a year lands wild and unknown, for all of which the said governor and captain-general, ought to consider of and regard such proper reasons as the near arrival the above-mentioned lot and branch of the said people TFL St oa MG are + n + . . of which ee 7 i af ie pueblo by rethem to break lands, much less not to be troubled with to give and prepared, wherefore it is not in my power and permission to the said natives of San Lazaro to plant as those well as they, but year, this for same the cultivate to their of the said pueblo, must vacate them, and go pueblo said-piece of land and dwelling houses in the said plant. their of San Juan and on their said lands and there 1njurcrops, and he will give them time to move without until ing or tearing down the said houses of the said town the moon of the coming month, and he will eall upon years them to consider their having enjoyed for so many Pe : to settle, as in the said founded and town Per eds be be e ee ee Pik.a ete 2 Pe PEPE PE E2 ‘2otAER,fe tire LP Pile) * peed) EPs eran Pa RRA ape ae pe ee Fs LES bkDe Sia sosbe] - a Paws 2820 a , M is - ° lands MP ee a a eer Ce ee ee ee ee : Pe et J 93 to leave the said ele ew ’ permission, with the general consent of all, in effect they did settle and were settled Py eS them APP rerHe rd rarer oo order them on their said tract when they have and are provided with a safe dwelling on the portion of land which belongs to them as their own in the pueblo of San Juan, and as they also have their lands sufficient, irrigable, and dependent upon the seasons which are well known, and it is not right that injustice and injury should be done to the Spaniards by keeping them out of their said lands known to be theirs, which through the Divine will promise, on account of their fertility, abundant harvests, =~ sf * 59 aa: i ro th S a everything rerrar PLP ee ee ee ear P of tad ad i ina i a a2 PEP OSE eee ee eee er ee @ oe epee ee . “hed bd on the said lands, Se bh the improvements being already completed, those of San Cristoval and those of San Lazaro settled upon them, the lands which the Teguas of the said pueblo of San Juan de los Caballeros hold being many, and the number of people of both being small, and it being on the frontier, as it is, and at the entrance of the Apache enemy as well as that of the Ute tribe, they saw fit to admit them and give them the 7 Coa 5 + 2 op to obtain £7? possession of by the said rebels; and_in view of the fact that the aforesaid, of the said tribe of Thanos, left their pueblos, because of the improvements and the fertility of the lands and the greater security of their lives, and came together with those of the Teguas tribe, who were settled at so short a distance, and took advantage of the occasion given and partitioned among them by the natives of the same; and I direct my said lieutenant-general, if it should be necessary, to go to the said pueblo of San Juan with the said governor, Don Cristoval Yope, and the war captains of the two pueblos being together in the plaza to inform them of my said order by virtue of the said royal will, which is but just and proper with regard to the said Spaniards, and it being neither unjust nor tyrannical to * taken @* ELIS Sel PELE@# + @ PEPE Ps a a 2 Cee. ee eee =a8 ¢Pa) * EJ Steletetotot< $54 i wares, were end clothing, ae goods, all of which stock, = Ae household and PELL their crops, dt farms growing * grain, : on their 245 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO |