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Show Bet Les eee ee Baseee« ee et ee ee dee ahead sf pt : sath eeSet ees ee Be “jus. ‘+ Ca bk Teor ack ed ee ee e ie Oe ee rks heen tosBe OP Stat Na estat Ot pet Sos hak 86 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXI CO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO along the way until we arrived at this place, where I have to the service attended of the king, my lone with the and obedience to which I am bound, Promptn ess ining ever enterta the idea of abandoning this fort without for, al- though several offers have been made to me by some person or persons who have sent for me, I declined the same. looking upon them with contempt, my resolution always having been to return to my country and end my days there in the service of the king, our lord, in which service I have been for I began to serve him when I ca y en t8o was sevente and years, continued up to my sixty-ninth that being my present age; and, whereas, God has year, been pleased that your excellency should have the happiness of. kingdom and we are about to enter it recover again your ing the with excellen cy to settle, it anew, and being one of the re lag of the Villa of Santa Fe, where I was the owae a 3 ec residence and farming land, which lies about egsaue use shots outside of the town, and having learned ae e acces house where I lived the Indians have built longin ca tower (torreoncillo) and the farm lands he- ay x ae : pe tract stretch from a road which leads to the Os hon = esuque up to a point below the said house, and as oe to the north is a dry gulch (arroyo seco) ‘a n from the mountains and continues on turnin . run u i 1 : about all the lands; and on the south they dene € river itself from a burned pueblo which is sitused to liv ene er one, where the Captain Hno. Gonzales which Th e, y Ich said lands, with the tract for the house a bel ave described, with inlets and outlets and every- oe sage: to them, is my own, for I enjoyed and pos- Pie ae 2 ee from his majesty, in whose royal name new eau G auey your excellency to be pleased to have a to me for the Same, and that as soon as arrive i eat we sald Villa of Santa Fe, royal and personal posLe Shall be given to me, for in so doing your excellency ete. ce by me, the governor and cap- a and I say that as soon 1 tor what it may be worth in law, 9 bce: 0n as we shall arrive at the Villa of isabel nyc round tower will be given to him by giving him the = rien lands which he asks for and the little » without prejudice to third parties, who may 87 have a better claim than the petitioner. With this decree let it be returned to the person mentioned in order that he may produce it before me, when and where it may suit him; and I signed it, with my secretary of government and war, in this settlement of El Paso, on the fifteenth day of the month of January, 1693. ‘*Don Dingo DE VarGAS ZAPATA LusAN PONCE DE LEON ‘Before me: ‘* ALPHONSSO RAEL DE AGUILAR, ‘‘Secretary of Government and War.’’ Two years later, after Santa Fe had been taken by the Spanish forces under General De Vargas, Lucero de Godoy received from the governor a re-validation of the lands described in his first petition. This fact appears by archive No. 423, in the office of the surveyor-general at Santa Fe, as follows: ‘‘To His Excellency the Governor and Captain General: ‘‘T, the sargento mayor, Juan Lucero de Godoy, resident of this Villa of Santa Fe, having been such for more than forty years, appear before your excellency in the best form allowed me by law and state that when your excellency returned to this kingdom of New Mexico, having conquered, pacified and reduced it to obedience to the king, our lord, whom may God preserve! and your excellency having arrived at El Paso del Rio del Norte, where I had resided for fourteen years since the uprising of these Christian In- dians, I appeared before your excellency presenting the petition I make, showing the decree in my favor, which your excellency has seen fit to provide, to whose contents I refer, and when your excellency arrived in the Villa of Santa Fe and made your camp on the slope or side of the mountain [Monte] which is called Cuma, opposite the farming lands which I declare to be mine, together with the little round tower, for the apostate Indians had torn down to let my house and built it there, I asked your excellency me go with my family to live in the said tower, which license you granted to me, because it was very near to the said camp and it was well protected for any emergency, to which matter I attended by taking personal possession of the said tower, on which land my house had stood until the apostate Indians that were at this fort, into which they had converted the royal houses, again made another uprising and your excellency beat them out of this place, where all the inhabitants then took up our abode, and when the time for ploughing arrived, I leased our ground on my said lands |