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Show st AL a] i ee UD et ," OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY men, holding the rank of captain, and carrying instructions to the viceroy to give him office in reward for his services in the wars against Portugal. He was made alealde mayor of Meztitlan and soon thereafter was appointed to the governorship of New Mexico. Immediately upon his arrival at E] Paso, Governor Cruzate began his preparations for entradas into the surrounding country. On the 29th day of November of 1683 he issued a formal order relative to an entrada into the country of the Jumanos and surrounding nations. Prior to this time the viceroy, in the month of September, had approved all of the governor’s official acts, including the establishment of the presidio at El Paso, which contained fifty soldiers. He further ordered that the governor spare no effort, with the slightest possible expense, to regain the province of New Mexico. In the month of August, a force of fifty Spaniards, under command of Captain Roque Madrid, with one hundred Indian allies, was sent against the Apaches, with instructions to kill the men and capture the women and children. Don Pedro Ladron de Guevara is named as the military secretary of this expedition. In the month of September of the year following Cruzate issued orders for the arrest and return of all fugitives from his jurisdiction, and it is more than likely that his trouble with the governor of Nueva Viscaya grew out of this order or the acts of Cruzate’s captains thereunder. If he was suspended from office, it was only for a period of less than two months, for in November of the same year, by an order of the viceroy, he was restored and maintained in his office with all its titles as held by his predecessor; while the governor of Nueva Viscaya, José de Neiva, was commanded to keep within the bounds of his own state and refrain from interfering with Cruzate in his governorship of New Mexico. It was in the month of September, 1685, also, that Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, who had been the lieutenant-general under Otermin, left El Paso for the City of Mexico, accompanied by Several of the prominent officers of the garrison. These were the Sargento-mayor, Juan Lucero de Godoy, Regidor Lazaro de Misquia, Baltazar Dominguez, Juan de Anaya, and the government secretary, Alfonso Rael de Aguilar. It is said that these men carried despatches from the Franciscan friars, which would indicate that there was some controversy at the time between them and the gover- PUEBLO REBELLION AND INDEPENDENCE 379 nor. On account of the desertion of Dominguez, Captain Alonzo Garcia was named as maestro de campo and lieutenant-general. The despatches which Dominguez and his comrades carried to the City of Mexico were undoubtedly sent by the friars for the purpose of securing the removal of Cruzate from office. At any rate, shortly afterward, although he had within a few short months been restored to office by the viceroy, his suspension having come about through his difficulties with the governor of Nueva Viscaya, he was removed and Don Pedro Reneros de Posada appointed in his place. Reneros de Posada was exercising the duties of his office as early as the fall of 1686 and ruled until 1689. There is very little of record, so far as is now known, of the official acts of this governor. He made an entrada to the pueblos of the Queres, and according to one historian he was accused of inefficiency, all of which resulted in the reappointment of Cruzate.?*4 Governor Cruzate, again taking hold of the reins of government, immediately renewed the entrada and fought the Queres, with other tribes at the pueblo of Cia, killing six hundred of the Indians and capturing over seventy, who, with the exception of a very few old men who were shot in the plaza, were with the license of the king sold as slaves for a period of ten years.°** In this battle of Cia 384 Davis, W. W. H., The Spanish Conquest of New Mesico, note, p. 336. Mr. Davis makes some most remarkable statements in connection with what he says he found in the Santa Fé Archives, as appears from the note which is of sufficient importance to reproduce in full. No such information as he Says he found is now in the archives nor has there been for many years, and no one of the persons who had control of them while they remained in Santa Fé, including Miller, Samuel Ellison, Bandelier, and others, ever found any paper containing the information that ‘‘Cruzate was accompanied by Don Reneros de Posada and Juan de Ofiate, a brave soldier,’’ who ‘ ‘said that he had made a visit to Zufti, called the Buffalo province, during the reign of Phillip I. At the first arrival of himself and people in New Mexico, the inhabitants were much surprised, being astonshed at seeing white men, and at first believed them After the surprise had worn off, a to be gods, and reported them as such. cruel war broke out, the governor and most of the priests being killed, a few Among those who escaped was a only escaping to the pueblo of El Paso. Franciscan friar, who went to Mexico and carried with him an image of . of Macana, which was preserved for a long time in the convent in tha — ” y: On this image Implous wretch of Nuestra Sefiora de la Macana there ; e 1s a manuscript ° Papeles de Jeswitas, no. 10, written in 1754, which informs us that -— ; great revolt of 1683 (’80) a chief raised his macana and cut off the si: Blood flowed from the wound; the devil hanged the an image of our Lady. to a tree. Hist. Pim., 288. On October 8, 1687, a town of the yt 885 Mange, Cia) was attacked and fire set to the huts, many perishing in the (perhaps os. FACTS Seeing: LEADING — oe 3878 |
