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Show 118 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXI CO se oo G oes by his Majesty ute ian for His Mideaty ‘ a dee feccr) noe and the and Castellan of its aga ae (by means of this Town Se proof of which I Crain i : the beginning of its pita eee A e b Majesty s ee ili co a oF dein and conducted fon he Pa Fort in this T of this Provi izcaya and soldiers for the erection of this own of Santa Fe, as well as those originally Administration the Town of El P oe the honorable cabildo of Justice andin the said year which was established asso; Your Honor since the year eighty of the general i Insurrection in this Province at the same nena’ Haat chien Religious Priests with the Most Rev- time came g a" brother Salvador de San Antonio, finding te apr anorelate, nation living in this town aforesaid in its walled addition or Sheration 4 ae as they stood without change, fortunate my of ninety-two year said the o hav conquest, structed for ee one gate, its entrance built and con- above in the f : : efense of its ravelin, a redoubt entrenched trench and likeon the ee of @ half tower with its wise ie a front to the south two round towers and [estafa deretro| with tsi north side and its false flanks high and mann wo plazas and its dwellings three stories in its capacit y of J our and in truth most perfectly planned amplitude, the thirtieth day of December of the ee re-conquest, the said year ninety-three of my fortunate included about fifteen number whose Seg hundred of them of unusual distinction, were quartered . a my own due attention to them Save # dkterndinad I and said very revel end Fathers with rst the lodgings of the being forced to divide th their Most Reverend Prelate, community in order t em not placing them together in a and all Over our own in if accommodate the said [persons] aforesaid triumph ca. said dwellings as we were by the them, in testimo when the Mexie three hundred victory legal masters and possessors of a of which I also sent war edicts and Terran whose numbers were more than who joined them arrived the twenty-third of Tt ag others In the year ninety-four although with Some crowding Said settlers fro ey were given lodging among the aforeamply gattsoned, entrench d which may be seen how At bens ha ed and defended our people were assure one entrance and sta windows or doors outside, excepton the Secured in military form by trenches THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 119 four fronts and towers with their embrazures as skylights for the aforesaid dwellings, there being fortress and parade-ground for the said Population and the said fort with its military force of one hundred soldiers, with their capchiltain and officers, who with their wives, families and dren, came and continued to come until the year ninetysucseven, when Governor Don Pedro Rodriguez Cubero not, ceeded me, who, with what intention or malice I know fort, leaving destroyed and in utter contempt ruined the said this town without defense although actually in a state of rein volt (which God would not permit) since it found itself this condition its Citizens had to protect and secure themas selves with their families of children and their Wives and animals their and small, and large flocks, their as well that the the greater attention is to be paid to the [fact] although said men at arms joined, as was their duty, and of Bernathey were scattered, some in the neighborhood and plain lillo and others in the Jurisdiction of the Teguas them in of Chimayo, without its being possible to compel the present season of winter’s rigor to gather was more than and unite at arms of under my orders according to their duty as men their chapel the fort where they should be, having also first duty which served as a parochial church, it was their ruin and also, to preserve it and not permit it to suffer ation [7s bodies being interred therein, and no less consider Cruz of Santa of Town New the of tion depopula due] the Second, Carlos Don King the Lord our of the Mexicans to the Most statement of which in edicts and orders I sent de Galves, in Worthy Sefior Viceroy, who was the Count the month of June of the said year, and it will be remembered that its population sixty families, having been increased likewise by more than twenty from Officers, and Zacatecas, who were sent to me by the Royal with one with some other people founded the said Town, Chapel behind and a gate, a sufficient Parade Ground, a post house for the Religious man our Priest, as a frontier afns for transit and a parade ground for the operatio secure further forded to the men at arms of this fort and Thaos, of the and Picuriés the plains, the of the nations and also those who inhabit the moun- and Yutas, secured by retain glens and other places, defended and as was tiring with their flocks and herds to the said Town, Apaches done by the warriors, in the revolt of the year ninety-six sent to the most worthy proof of which I remitted in edicts will show Sr Archbishop [and] Viceroy the first of August be maintained should it that is it nce importa great of what |
