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Military Service Records 107 I ordered the present writing issued to him, signed by my name and sealed with the seal of my arms, and countersigned by the undersigned secretary of war and government. Done in the Villa of Santa Fe of New Mexico on the twenty-fifth day of the month of June of the year 1665. (Seal) Fernando de Villanueva (rubric). By order of the governor and captain general, Francisco Xavier, secretary of government and war (rubric). Notes 1. BNE, Madrid, MSS 19258, photos 37–38. 2. Don Fernando de Villanueva was appointed governor of New Mexico by the viceroy Marqués de Mancera, on January 14, 1665. He took office in Santa Fe on June 22, 1665, and served until November 29, 1668. AGI, Contaduría, legs. 757, 759, 763A, Caja de México. Cuentas de los oficiales reales de México, 1664–1666, 1667–1668, and 1669–1671, respectively; and AGI, Indiferente, 123, N. 59, Relaci ón de méritos y servicios de Fernando Villanueva, Gobernador y Capitán General de Nuevo México, 1671. For a record of his merits and services, see Supp. Doc. 4, infra, Account of the Services of Don Fernando de Villanueva, Governor and Captain General of the Provinces of New Mexico by Appointment of the Marqués de Mancera, Viceroy of New Spain, October 30, 1671. (E & S) 3. The word cordillera means “the relay list” that bears the names of the various districts within New Mexico and here refers back to the word “jurisdictions,” used earlier in the sentence. Regarding the function of the cordillera in circulating official decrees among provincial alcaldes mayores, consult Marc Simmons, Spanish Government in New Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990), 186. (E & S) Document 16 Appointment as Visitador of the Mission Supply Caravan Santa Fe, October 16, 16651 Captain and Sargento Mayor don Fernando de Villanueva, governor and captain general of these provinces of New Mexico for His Majesty, etc. Inasmuch as at the general time the royal supply train, of which General Juan Manso is in charge as its contractor, is about to leave this kingdom, and 108 Part One because, as is the custom, it is to be inspected in order that no prohibited thing or contraband may leave in it without permission and declaration; and because continually many servants of the citizens are wont to flee, merely for their own pleasure, leaving their masters, wives, and children; and on account of other things which might arise and originate during the departure of the said wagons until they leave the settled area, quarrels as well as any other incident that may occur; and in order to avoid them and so that all may be done with justice, it is most necessary to appoint a person of entire satisfaction and trust, experienced in law, of loyalty, quality, merits, and praiseworthy methods of procedure such as the case requires, in order that he may go as visitador with all my authority and representing my person.2 In consideration of the fact that the aforesaid qualities and many other important ones concur in the person of General don Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, my lieutenant in all the jurisdictions of the Río Abajo, Queres, and Jemez, for the present, and in the name of the royal and Catholic Majesty of the king, our lord, I elect, appoint, and name him as such visitador with all my authority and plenary power in due form imposed by law, in order that in the regions and places which may seem best to him and may be necessary he may undertake the said inspection and all proceedings which offer themselves, acting as juez receptor. And I order all the persons who go and assist in the said wagons to respect, esteem, and obey him as such, and to respond to his summonses and orders in what pertains to him by virtue of the said office, for such is the royal will and mine in his royal name. Therefore I ordered the present writing issued to him, signed by my name and sealed with the seal of my arms, and countersigned by the undersigned secretary of government and war. Done in the Villa of Santa Fe on the sixteenth day of the month of October of the year 1665. (Seal) Fernando de Villanueva (rubric). By order of the government and captain general, Francisco Xavier (rubric), secretary of government and war. Notes 1. BNE, Madrid, MSS 19258, photos 39–40...

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