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Show LUNAR. 300 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY THE Apaches. The defensive force was only five men at each frontier station and these were but poorly armed or mounted, Reénforcements were absolutely necessary. The custodio, Fr. Francisco Ayeta,*** had gone to Mexico and was preparing to start with a wagon train of supplies for the missionaries. He made earnest appeals for soldiers and horses, and the junta approved his request and finally the train started from the City of Mexico on the sal days of September, 1679. The relief arrived too late. The province had to be abandoned. The historian Vetancurt gives a list, written in 1691, of the pueblo Indians in New Mexico, the several friars, and other valuable information.%* a - ages and both sexes that the survivors oa ivors fled fled in in dismay di to Socorro,; and the pueblo The oldest mention of this massacre is found ad in a i the Paracer del Fiscal ee >, hei Seales ‘‘Pasaron qi dar muerte . y a Ba a. o Gil de Avila, . oe Minist inistro del pueblo de Zenneci 0 en el dia nae 23 de Enero del ae Juan Alvarez, Peticion al Gobernador Don Francisco Cubero y Valdes ren s.: “*Tambien el pueblo de Senec’i, mattaron al Pe Fr. Alonzo Gil de ee destruieron lo mas de la gente indiana.’ whreianione. etancurt says: ‘‘ Hoy 7 esta el pueblo despoblado y arruinado ys i en la tierra de The persistent oak ; hostilities are of the0 A p aches pueblos about the Salinas. caused the aband andonment of Chilili hilili This took place after 1669 and prior to ss 361 veBy ne i de Ayeta’s report, or complaint, rather, is entitled Memor* me te 4 ee oo y Regimiento de la Uilla de 8 ; S. det Hiscal of September 5, 167 ; tn — = cinco hombres Espajfioles los que hay . cada Pb ig . a - quedado en la cabecera, Villa de Santa Fé, estando muchos aed 8 sin armas algunas, y casi todos sin caballos por haberselso enemigo.’’ destruido totalmen los vasos sagrados, tepe In the Parecer del Fiscal, we also find: poblaci ‘‘Que 4 demas »waclones pasaron 4 poner fuego 4 las yglesias, llevandose 1 ) é < e Escalant 7 . continuas invasiones siete pueblos de los cuarenta y seis ’ provinsia de Zuili, que fue Jahuicai, y siete en el valle de las a Salinas, a queae fueron Chilili hihi, Tunque y Cuarae de Indios Tehuas , Abé, Jumaneas y 1 — _ The pueblo of Tajique was the Apaches about this time. There 1s a statement to the effect ie — ces company with two Spaniards. priest of Tajique escaped from the Vetancurt, Cronica, p- 324, says: 2. religioso que escapo del rebellion con otros dos Esoe ave been four years before the rebellion of 1680, for — = a a, par. 2, says that Tajique was in ruins in 1680. Bead ta. ne “i . et seq. Missions of New Mexico in 1680: hi lace lenges above Guadalupe del Paso, founded in 1630 buried there; Pirogs ition: aS a orca Ce - Antonio; erd; fish-stream. oe vineya CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO 351 NOTE 362 — Continued Socorro (Nra Sra) 7 leagues above Seneci, of Piros nation; 600 inhabitants; founded by P. Garcia. Alamillo (Sta Ana), 3 leagues above Socorro; 300 Piros. Puaray, or Pururay (S. Bartolome, one league from Sandai (Alameda) ; 200 Tiguas; the name means ‘‘ gusanos,’’ or worms. convent, Sandia (S. Francisco) one league (from Puaray); 3,000 Tiguas; Also the skull of P. where P. Estevan Perea is buried; he was the founder. Rodriguez is venerated. S. Felipe, on the river on a height (apparently on east bank); 600 inhabitants with little pueblo of Sta Ana; of Zures (Queres) nation; convent founded by P. Cris. Quifiones, who, with P. Geronimo Pedraza, is buried here. the best Santo Domingo, 2 leagues above San Felipe; 150 inhabitants; one of celebrated an convents, where the archives are kept, and where in 1661 was here; buried P. Juan de Escalona is auto-de-fé, by order of the Inquisition. padres in 1680, Talaban (once custodio), Lorenzana, and Montesdeoca. Santa Fé, villa, 8 leagues from Santo Domingo; residence of the governor and soldiers, with four padres. Tesuque (San Lorenzo), 2 leagues from Santa Fé, in a forest; 200 Tiguas (Tehuas) ; P. Juan Bautista Pio. del Nambé (S. Francisco) 3 leagues east of Tesuque, 5 leagues from Rio Norte; 2 little settlements of Jacona and Cuya Mungué; 600 inhabitants; P. Tomas de Torres. tract, San Ildefonso, near the river and 2 leagues from Jacona, in a fertile with 20 farms; 800 inhabitants; PP. Morales, Sanchez de Pro, and Fr. Luis. Santa Clara, convento, on a height by the river; 300 inhabitants; a visita of San Ildefonso. In San Juan de los Caballeros, 300 inhabitants; visita of San Ildefonso. sight are the buildings of the villa de San Gabriel, the 1st Spanish capital. Picuriés (S. Lorenzo) 6 leagues from San Juan, on a height; 3,000 inhabiP. Matias Rendon Fr. Ascencion de Zarate served and is buried here. tants. in 1680. leagues from the 5 and Picuries from Tahos (S. Geronimo de Taos) 3 leagues river, in a fine valley; 2,000 inhabitants and some Spaniards; in 1631 P. Pedro Miranda de Avila was killed here; PP. Juan de Pedrosa and Antonio de Mora in 1680. Acoma (San Estevan) east of Cia on a pefiol one league in circumference, and thirty estados high; 1,500 inhabitants, converted by F. Juan Ramirez; in 1680 P. Lucas Maldonado. Hemes (San Diego de Jemez) a large pueblo formed of five smaller ones, with 5,000 inhabitants; in charge of P. Juan de Jesus. Alona (Purisima), 24 leagues from Acoma, with two visitas, called Mazquia and Ciquima; 1,500 inhabitants; P. Juan del Bal. (Zufii province). Aguico (Concepcion), 3 leagues west of Alona, with other small pueblos; 1,000 inhabitants; they revolted in 1632, and killed P. Francisco Letrado; in 1680, the padre escaped. _ _Aguatobi (San Bernardino), in Moqui province; 26 leagues from Zufi; 800 inhabitants, converted by Fr. Francisco de Porras; much pumice stone. P. José de Figueroa or Concepcion in 1680. _ Xongopavi (San Bartolomé), seven leagues from A. with a visita called Moxainabi, 500 inhabitants; P. José Trujillo in 1680. Oraybi (San Francisco; others say San Miguel), farthest west of the Moqui towns, over seventy leagues from Santa Fé; had 14,000 gentiles, but a pestilence consumed them; 1,200 in a visita called Gualpi; PP. 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