[Translation.]
In the year 1689.
| In the Pueblo of Our Lady of Guadalupe of El Pasodel Rio del Norte, on the twenty-fifth day of the monthof September, in the year sixteen hundred and eightynine, the Governor and Captain-General, Don DomingoJironza Petroz de Cruzate, said that inasmuch as duringthe pursuit of the men of New Mexico, [namely], of theQueres Indians, and the Renegades, and the Teguas, andthose of the Thanos nation, and after the fight with allthe rest of the Indians of all the Pueblos—an Indian ofthe Pueblo of Zia, named Bartholomé de Ojeda, who hadgreatly distinguished himself in the fight, assisting at everypoint, surrendered, having been wounded by a bullet andby an arrow; he [the Governor] ordered that he shoulddeclare, under oath, how the Pueblo of Pecos is disposed,although it lies far off toward the sunrise, and [itspeople] are renegade Indians of that kingdom of NewMexico. |
Being asked whether [the inhabitants of] this Pueblowill ever return to their old ways, he, the deponent, saysthat they will not, since they are now in great terror,and though they were very much emboldened by whathad happened to those of the Pueblo of Zia the year before,he thought it was impossible that they should fail togive in their submission. Wherefore there were granted bythe Governor and Captain-General, Don Domingo JironzaPetroz de Cruzate, the boundaries here noted: to thenorth a league, and to the east a league, and to the west aleague, and to the south a league; and these four linesmeasured from the four corners of the Pueblo, reservingthe temple, which lies to the south of the Pueblo; andthus did his Excellency provide, command, and signbefore me, the present Secretary of the Interior and ofWar, who attest it. Don Domingo Jironza Petroz de Cruzate. Before me, Don Pedro Ladron de Guitara, Secretary of the Interior and of War. |
FOOTNOTES
[87] Lieut.-Col. W. H. Emory, Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Executive Document 41, Washington, 1848. Meteorological Observations, p. 163. Camp 44, half-mile south of the Pecos, Aug. 17, 1846, altitude six thousand three hundred and forty-six feet. Camp 45, on the Pecos, near Pecos village, August 18, six thousand three hundred and sixty-six feet.
[88] This is the lowest height of the peaks seen from the valley. Some of the other tops are much higher yet. The altitude of Santa Fé Baldy, for instance, exceeds twelve thousand feet.
[89] Not to be confounded with the Rio de Pecos proper. The arroyo is not found on most of the maps. Its width is about 100 m.—330 ft.—but there is scarcely ever more than a mere fillet of very clear, limpid water in it.
[90] This is, however, only accidental, and exclusively due to nine months of consecutive drouth. Generally the strips of bottom-land have a rich soil, and grow fine corn, wheat, and oats.
[91] They are very picturesque objects, and stand out boldly, appearing to rise directly from the plain. Their height is stated to be about thirteen thousand feet. In this vicinity are the Placitas, now famous for mineral wealth (gold and silver), and the Cerrillos, also rich in ore, and containing beautiful green and blue turquoises, of which I saw excellent specimens in possession of His Excellency Governor L. Wallace.