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Show 424 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY Governor Cuervo was succeeded in the governorship by the admiral, Don José Chacon Medina Salazar y Villasenor, marqués de la Penuela, who had received his DON JOS& CHACON MEDINA SALAZAR appointment from the king in Y VILLASENOR, MARQUES DE LA 1705 and who governed the PENUELA, NAMED GOVERNOR province until the year 1712. Governor Chacon also had some trouble with the Moquis, and he sent some of the Zufi chieftains to Moqui exhorting them to peace and submission. Nothing was accomplished, however, other than a raid upon Zuni led by Tanos and Tehua Indians. This governor rebuilt the chapel of San Miguel, erected about one hundred years previous during the time of Onate, and destroyed by the Indians in the revolt of 1680.*?° In the stantly pueblos tribe in | Mdbt bho F + OW wi ' j rer NDIA wager | year 1709 a war was waged with the Navajés, who were conraiding the villages of the friendly Pueblos. All of the of the Jemez Indians **° were sacked by this marauding the month of June of that year. Governor Chacén insti- Walpi and Oraibi, forcing the Indians, after a fight, to sue for peace and give hostages ; but the Tanos and other reénforcements arrived, attacked the Span- iards and allies as they retired, and drove them back to Zuiti, the hostages being shot. Presently the Zufiis—now under Fr. Miranda, who came occasionally from Acoma —asked to have their escolta removed, a request which aroused fears of a general rising in the west.’’ 429On the rafters in this chapel is carved the following inscription: “El Sefior Marquéz de la Penuela hizo esta fabrica; el Alferes Real Don Agustin Flores Vergara, su criado. Afio de 1710.’’ Translation: ‘‘His Lordship, the Marquis de la Penuela, erected this building; the Royal Ensign Don Agustin Flores Vergara, his servant. A. D. 1710.’’ Prince, L. B., Historical Sketches of New Mewico, p. 224, says: cat ae period all the principal churches in the ‘kingdom’ were rebuilt, including many that are now standing. The register of deaths — Libro de Difuntos— of the mission of San Diego, of Jemez, commences in August, 1720, when Francisco Carlos Joseph Delgado, ‘Preacher of the Holy Office of the Inquisition,’ was the priest in charge.’’ The great church at Santa Cruz, which was the center of an enormous parish m the north, has records anterior to 1720; and its register of marriages, with @ curious pen picture of the marriage of the Blessed Virgin to Saint J oseph as @ frontispiece, bears date 1726, the first part being written by Padre Predicador Fray Manuel de Sopefia. The baptismal register in the church at Alburquerqué commences in 1743. A p . 629-630: part i, dalled northwest of eety a about river, Tee the of to tradition the Jemez had their origin 12 the According Mex. tank Bernalillo, N. ge nekts See 3° F. W. Hodge, in Handbook of American Indians, a lagoon called Uabunatota (apparently identical with the Shipapulima eee te - ibobe of other Pueblo tribes), whence they slowly drifted into the valleys — the Guadalupe and San Diego tributaries of the Rio Jemez id ns they resided in a number of villages, and finally into the sandy valley ° ere Don Francisco Fernandez Alburquerque, Viceroy de la Cueva of New Enriq Spain, 4 |
