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Show dee os a ceeSot Sig ets pg Pe ra Leeda od be aa 7 ee ea ea ale“ THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES Pe Nal Fe Bed ed es Seo pa SrEtatetesclws ee Shak bah Sak Nee toric ty og er PESTS nis Oe bat ec) ‘niin beseGal eek FSSA wor et eh Rick Yo : sed shed ahd ele Scales 108 enemies; that I came asking nothing of them except two things; that they should become Chris tians, as they ought, hearing mass and saying their prayers, and their sons and women attending to the catechism, as the Spaniards did; and the second was that they might be safe from the Apaches and friendly with all, and that this was my sole object in coming and not for the purpo se of asking for or taking anything away from them; and the said very reverend custodian assured them of my good heart and the good intentions which animated the Spaniards, which were not as they had supposed; that is, that I, the said governor and captain-general, had come for the purpose of killing them, as they said I would come, and so they should give no credence to anything except that which I and the reverend father told them; besides I commanded them, if they had among them any bad or malicious Indian, they Should tie him up and bring him to me to ascertain the truth as to what he said, and in case of falsehood I would order his immed iate execution, and we could live as brothers and be verythat in this manner happy; and after this talk we went away again, leavi ng them to seek a more protected site, the soil being their village, covered with snow, and only about mid-day I found in the outflows and slopes a table land and mountain susceptible of some changes, and therein I, the said governor and captain-gen- eral, established my camp, a tower house, which had been despicable dwelling-place, a repai and use, having in the same a fire-pred for my occupation lace, which a resident told me belo nd the said house ; to which I war officers; likewise the t Wo secretaries who were present therein, at said town, Dated ut supra. [Seal] ‘‘Dimgo pk Vargas ZAP ““LORENZO DE Manprip. ATA Lusan Ponce DE LEON. ‘FERNANDO DE CHAVEs . “J. DE Leysa. ““LAZARO ‘Rogue ‘‘ JOSEPH ‘* XAVIER r DE MEzQuUIA. Manrip. MIERA. DE ORTEGA, “Secretary of ‘‘ JUAN DE ALMA the Town Corporation. ZAN. Before me :— ¢¢ ANTONIO DE BALverpg, Secretary of Government and War.”’ OF NEW MEXICO 109 ‘‘T attest the above: : ‘* ALFONSSO RAEL DE AGUILAR, ‘*One of the Secretaries of Government and War of the Governor and Captain-General. 00 DE VARGAS, DIEGO. Santa Fe, 1694. Journal of operation and events. da DE VARGAS, ELEJO. January, 1693. Letter to Fr. Francisco Farfan, procurador-general a Order of St. Francis. Incomplete. db DE VARGAS, DIEGO. January 28, 1694. Journal of operations; eight folios, beginning with f.9 and ending with f.16. Last date January 30, 1694. d0¢ DE VARGAS, DIEGO. February 11, 1694. Journal of events; 31 folios, beginning boy f.21 and con- cluding with f.52; last date, March 5, 1694. dod DE VARGAS, DIEGO. March 26, 1694. Journal of events; 71 folios, f.75 to f.145; last date, May 30, 1694. de DE VARGAS, DIEGO. Santa Fe, June 16, 1694. Bando, providing for reception of the colonists. oof DE VARGAS, DIEGO. Journal of operations and events. The ee the 2 June 23-29, 1694. colonists of from ce is described Mexico i in the Journal as follows: ‘‘Entry of the wagons into this Villa of paees pean? neing the families who came from Mexico, and t Vee perlodgment which were immediately aasigned. sonally by the said governor and captain 10 ] ee shone ‘‘On the twenty-third of the current mont tha pions date and year above, the hour being about Ee custody ing, happened the arrival of the wagons . ‘Father Fr. governed by the procurador general, the a ilies sent Francisco Farfan, and in them came the de Calves of hither by his excellency, the Viceroy, Paaen if ia oe this kingdom and of all New Spain, and ae : aid governor ing stopped at this Villa of Santa Fe, es did and captain general of said kingdom I, ee ae of "govimmediately, with the assistance of my an secre f a jllusernment and war, the justice and trious corporation, of the military pane Pee / nd officers pi age on of said of war of this department, according to the r |