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Show 273 F — CRE Se ee aR we oe Tae he ae rays aT AL ARAL UE SE rar ee des bee Lace A eu ee ee Pe oe ee ee - ° ‘ a Te TS tentials: eke att . — ‘ * “ Ciena on oers eee ee en oe 3 eee = E ee ae ee Re ere 4 reat: oe 2 i bale {eee e i * PF nh el a) a i a ee See -§-% oe ~ pe ~ aa Be Ser nae—e eee od a OF NEW MEXICO and encouraging the four missions established in said place of El Paso del Rio del Norte, fostering their preservation and in the same way encouraging and maintaining the other eight missions which, in conformity with the opinion of the general board on the proposal of Fray Francisco de Ayeta, I have ordered you to appoint, in order that they may administer the blessed sacrament to every person, be he Spanlard or Indian, who may reside in those places and who has gone forth and retired from the said province; to which twelve missionaries you will attend with the stipend and alms which it has been the custom to give, not permitting , on pain of exile from my domain and punishment for disobedience to superior ordinances, that the Spaniards, mestzos and mulattos who have gone away and retired from the said province to absent themselves from said place and site of Kl Paso del Rio del Norte, unless they show proper Justification, or if they lack a temporary license, fixing a sufficient term for the duration of their journey, whenever they shall represent its necessity, and must never grant them permits to take away their wives and families; and Tio ier spmbel them to live and establish themselvesou the site of the town to which they have been assigned, mak- ing grant of all the Iands they may need for cultivation and oe es ee ee he 3 ° ee ed ee ® Ci ee ee & F ee et oe et ie * P< ee 6 ~9-6-~+ eee ee 4— O- F ~ we of water from the river for the irrigation thereof, in order that in this manner they may cultivate the fields and raise liarvests for their own support. The Spaniards and others who may go away and retire from said provinces and stay in said place on the Rio del Norte in company with the other tribes of native Indians at peace, I admonish to try and keep there and not allow them to leave or you absent themselves without your permission, as expressed above; 2” THE SPANISH ARCHIVES and in order that all that has been said may be duly carried into effect, I hereby command all the settlers who at present live in said town, and those that hereafter may 20 to sn of these locations, places and jurisdictions of sal ih inces, and the rest of the inhabitants and natives— hat they must recognize and consider you as their governor and captain general in every part of said province, = to respect, obey and look up to you in the same way as they have done with those who have preceded you, attend: ie and complying with your orders and commands, at the ime and under the penalties which you may impose an OF NEW MEXICO 85 which you must carry into effect against the rebellious even if they submit; and for all this and for all other things in relation to the same, I give you power and authority observing in every way the instructions which shall be delivered ; signed by my said viceroy, and attested by my secretary,” ing the useof lands, waters and forests, leaving the Indians free and not subject to involuntary servitude, protecting” < eae aota THE SPANISH ARCHIVES must be separate and set apart so that by this means the Indians may be at liberty and to prevent quarrels respect- SUISa eae ee tm ae ee oe oe ee —§-%-+ e— * rsp indeed oar el eed en Le ES Bk Ba See PoeBG Bold | tet ce ee co he oil 84 44 VARGAS, 1693. DIEGO pt. September Re-conquest of New Mexico. 20, December 24, Journal of operations. d4a Bando proclaiming the departure for New Mexico and its publication. Returning from his first entrada, General De Vargas arrived at El Paso del Norte on December 20, 1692. The second entrada was begun October 13, 1693, with seventy families, in all eight hundred persons, including seventeen frayles, with Fray Salvador de San Antonio, as custodio. Luis Granillo was second in command and Juan Paez Hurtado was assigned to the special charge of the settlers. The filing of petitions and the making of grants of land to settlers and soldiers, who had been driven out of the province at the time of the uprising in 1680, was begun long before the fall of 1693. This is shown by the petition of Juan Lucero de Godoy, filed January 15, 1693, and filed with the archives in the office of the surveyor-general at Santa Fe, being number 422. This petition is of historical value and is reproduced, as follows: ‘To His Excellency the Governor and Captain General: “T, the sargento mayor, Juan Lusero de Godoy, inhabitant of the Town of Santa Fe, residing at this garrison of Kl Paso, appear before your excellency in the best form al- lowed to me by law and say: “That I took up my habitation in the said Villa of Santa Fe since I was seventeen years of age up to the year eighty, which was the year of the insurrection and general rebellion in those provinces, attending always to the service of his majesty, in whatever I was commanded by my superlors, as is well known and notorious, I being one of those persons at Santa Fe defending the royal standard; likewise did I come in company with my governor and captain general, always attending to guard duty and keeping watch |