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Show 408 LEADING FACTS OF NEW to submit to the inevitable. MEXICAN De Vargas HISTORY delivered over to them their women and children, whom he had distributed among the colonists as servants, causing much regret and opposition on the part of their masters. This policy made friends for the captain-general among the Indians, but was the cause of much trouble to De Vargas. Friar San Antonio, who had left for El Paso, resigned his office, and Fr. Francisco Vargas arrived as custodio in November, bringing with him four friars. In the meantime the governor sent south for three thousand fanegas of corn, wishing to relieve the Indians of excessive taxation for perous.*° a time until the Indians should become In 1695 the colonists who had been brought Friar Farfan which records village Morefio sites of settled more to New settled in the new villa of Santa Cruz pros- Mexico by de la Cafiada, me Reeth og CLEARER, i b, i ee 6h he feng) had been actually settled many years before, as we have showing that Luis Quintana *°® was alecalde mayor of the at the time of the revolt in 1680. In the new settlement, Fr. was the missionary. In his settlement were included the the villages of San Cristobal and San Lazaro, which had been by the Tanos of Galisteo. It was urged by the friars that to deprive these Indians of their lands was very unjust on the part of De Vargas, and soon, before the friars in the several missions had been fairly installed, rumors of new and were circulated everywhere. troubles became very insistent The Indians had lost none of their hatred for the new condition of things and now that the friars were distributed and the forces of the enemy scattered, the Indians again began to think of driving the Spaniards out of the country. Tehuas were specially prominent in these hidden conspiracies. The The Carbonel at San Felipe, Cochiti and later Taos; P. Miguel Tirso at Santo Domingo; P. José Arbizu at San Cristobal; P. Antonio Moreno at Santa Fe (temporarily), La Cafiada, and later Nambé; P. Antonio Acevedo at Nambe; P. Francisco Vargas, custodio.’’? This leaves some of the original friars wr accounted for, and also one of the four who came in November, 1694. *08 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New o Mea., 162-167: On January 10th, 1695, De Mezico, p. 213: Vargas wrote ‘+ Arch. Fk HE aa e Be Ag LER N * HE, ee to the viceroy thanking him for the provisions -— 3,000 fanegas of corn; and again, May oth, on the trouble he had experienced in transporting the corn. Arch de Santa Fé, Ms. This, however, may not indicate that it was not purchased on De _. account. It was charged later that only about 580 fanegas ever reached Ne Mexico, and much of that was wasted in the distribution.’’ , ‘ _ 9 At this founding of 1695 the villa was given the ‘<preeminencia d¢ 0 settlements and of Bernalillo New are Mexico, also except mentioned Santa Fe. in the records ° f Fac-sim il ile of Page of the Journal of Don Diego de Vargas, contair 1 Ing entry relative to ceremonies at time of Rec onquest irs Cerrillos _ of . oe Te | over all the cate Pate beet A} + ek. SEEPS a oe ae4 poblaciones that year. Ps tiguedad’’ : |
