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Military Service Records 129 17. Fray Nicolás Enríquez was a native of Jalisco, Nueva Galicia. In October 1663, Enríquez referred to himself as apostolic definitor and the elder Franciscan priest in New Mexico. He was residing at the Convento de la Inmaculada Concepción in the Villa de Santa Fe in May 1664. Hackett, Historical Documents, 3:240 and 245. 18. Fray Nicolás Freitas took the habit of the Orden de San Francisco in Mexico City on June 4, 1650, at the age of sixteen (b. ca. 1634). He was a native of Mexico City and a son of Juan de Freitas (also recorded as Fleytas), a native of the Canary Islands, and Gerónima de Rueda, a native of Mexico City. Bancroft Library, Mexican Manuscripts 216–18, Libro de contradas y profesiones de novicios de este convento de Padre San Francisco de México 1562–1680, f. 1131v, entry #1142. He came to New Mexico in December 1658 in the company of Governor don Bernardo López de Mendizábal along with as many as eighteen other friars. Hackett, Historical Documents, 3:157. (E & S) 19. Fray Nicolás de Villar was a native of the City of Guadiana (Durango) in Nueva Vizcaya and gave his age as forty-four in 1661 (b. ca. 1617). AGN, Inquisición, vol. 593, f. 162r, Testimony of Fray Nicolás de Villar, September 27, 1661, Convento de la Inmaculada Concepción, Villa de Santa Fe. (E & S) 20. Fray Tomás de Alvarado was a native of La Fuente del Maestre in Estremadura, Spain, and gave his age as sixty in 1662 (b. ca. 1602). AGN, Inquisici ón, vol. 598, exp. 8, f. 123r, Testimony of Fray Tomás de Alvarado, April 5, 1662, Convento de San Francisco del Pueblo de Sandia. (E & S) Document 20 Title of Encomienda Santa Fe, May 1, 16691 Captain don Juan de Medrano Messía, governor and captain general of the kingdom and provinces of New Mexico for the king, our lord, and judge-general of bienes de difuntos in these [provinces].2 At present one-third of the encomienda and tributes of the pueblo of Humanas of the Tunpira [Tompiro] nation is vacant.3 These [tributes] were formerly collected by Alférez Juan González Bernal,4 now deceased, and it appears that as a result of the death of the aforesaid, his son, Juan González,5 collected them. By my order a proclamation was published concerning a council of war held on December 2 of the past year [1668] because these provinces were at war and the Apache enemies had overrun them, killing 130 Part One Spaniards and Christians, stealing herds of horses and droves of mules; and by this [proclamation], for the remedy of this situation and in order to go forth from different directions to punish the enemy, all the encomenderos were ordered to pass general muster before me with their arms and horses within twelve days, with the warning that if any of the said encomenderos or the escuderos appointed did not appear at the said muster, their said encomiendas would be pronounced vacant. The said muster took place in this Villa of Santa Fe on December 16, and a second muster was held on January 7 in the pueblo of Isleta. At neither of them did any person appear legally to represent or to pass muster as escudero for the said Juan González, nor did the aforesaid do so, having violated the edict and failed to fulfill it. And since no person is serving for the said encomienda as His Majesty orders, and especially at a time when this kingdom is so afflicted and attacked by the Apache Indians, and because it is necessary to have soldiers [to rally] to its defense at the sound of the war drum, the said part of the encomienda of the pueblo of Humanas and others was pronounced vacant. In consideration of this it is necessary to confer the said encomienda and tributes on a person of the satisfaction, legal qualifications, merits, and services which are required for the services of His Majesty. Because these and other [qualities] concur in Captain Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, in consideration of the fact that he has served His Majesty in these provinces more than twenty-five years, acting as soldier, alférez, captain, and lieutenant general of these provinces, and alcalde ordinario of this villa, and has gone forth as commander on different occasions to...

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