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Show ah.) ie oor ee erg er 5 ot el ae ee J ot end ee) a Be Balik sek” ee aa ee rte enh) eee eh denalaad hentai THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO eG 16 a : a a Bee ee ee eee oh task <® bo ie” a Be et ac a aay Bae Be tonio, the Indian who was captured near Cerrillos, declared the enemy was to lay in hiding. His Excellency gave orders that mounted men take their position on either side of the company and that everybody be in readiness for battle. ‘‘A large group of Indians was discovered on the mesas, with herds of cattle and horses, but they remained quiet, looking down upon us as we marched by. ‘‘ About one quarter of a league away, the house of Pedro de Cuellar was found sacked and destroyed, and a short distance further on the house of Captain Agustin de Carbajal was found broken into and everything taken away. aee al In one of the rooms we discovered the dead bodies of Cap- ee tain Agustin de Carabajal and his wife Dofia Damiana Dominguez de Mendoza. An unmarried girl, a woman and the sons of deceased were not killed. A short distance from here we came to the house of Cristobal de Anaya, which had been forced open and everything stolen. He together with his wife, six sons and other persons, numbering twelve in all, were dead, their nude bodies being found lying on the road. ‘* Here the army stopped, having marched about three leagues, His Excellency ordered that the Tagno Indian, who had joined us on leaving the pueblo of Santa Domingo, be examined as to his knowledge of the treachery and designs of the enemy; that from here we proceed with all due care to the pueblo of Isleta, where it is known some Spanlards are stationed, to determine the most proper thing to do for the service of both majesties. o Before ‘‘Don me: ANTONIO » FRANCISCO XAVIER, Secretary of Government ‘ OTERMIN, DON ANTONIO DE OTERMIN and War.”’ px. AUTO. At our camp adjoining the house of the Sargento Mayor, Cristobal Anaya, on the 25th day of August, 1680, the Governor and Captain General for the prosecution of this coe had brought before him a Christian of the ene tribe, who deserted the rebels, apostatesIndian of the Holy ces and had joined us. Being sworn in the name of Lord, and by making sign of the cross, he was questioned as to what he knew of the treachery and designs _ the hostile Indians and why he had deserted them and od, Our ie~> = ad a Pe . il he knew of the general uprising of the Christian Inlans. _He stated he had been in the service of the Captain José Nieto and that a few days ago he heard that two In- Jury PEeL TI EBL A Rae hae as ye aot Pes a > eet a 4 uea TCL Be eh of + gel Ay PL saa, re TOMS SSCA SC IER Ae Ae ek La $ 4 a aL AL LE So oe i Pa PUR J Si Pr ee eee. 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The Custodian immediately told master of affiant and the other Spaniards, who met together at the pueblo of ———,, that | while this witness was hoeing a field belonging to his master, about a league distant from the pueblo of Galisteo, he saw coming toward him an Indian named Bartolomé, public erier of the pueblo of Galisteo, who approached witness with tears in his eyes and asked him, ‘ What are you doing i here?’ and continued, ‘The Indians want to kill the Cus- ij todian, the Fathers and the Spaniards, and have said that : whoever kills a Spaniard shall have an Indian woman as | wife, and whoever kills four shall have as many wives, and! those killing ten or more shall have as many wives. They} have said that they will kill all the servants of the Span-} iards and those who talk Castillian, and have ordered everyone to burn their rosaries. You have been fortunate in) escaping with your wife and the orphan that you have, and) should now go back to the Spaniards.’ ‘‘Being asked why they had rebelled and acted so treacherously, he replied, that the said crier had told him they had done this of the because of the hardships suffered at the hands _ niards and Religious; because they were not al- lowed to till their lands or do anything for their own bene-_ that on another occasion another Indian fit. He stated had told him that at the pueblo of Galisteo, the Custodian Fr. Domingo de Vera, and within sight of the pueblo, Fathers Fernando de Velasco and Manuel Tinoco, guardians of the pueblos of Pecos and San Marcos, had been killed, and that the said Indians took into possession all the stock and the furniture of the Convent, and that at the same time they had killed Captain José Nieto, Juan de Leyba and Nicolés de Leyba, and stole their cattle and killed their wives and children, excepting three women; that after this was accomplished these Indians, from the pueblos of Tagnos, Pecos and San Marcos went to the Villa to fight; because six Tagnos and Galisteo Indians were killed and many returned wounded, with their arms and legs broken, they became mad and killed the three women, whose names were Lucia, Maria and Juana; that he knows |