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132 Part One Families, 40, 189, 359, and 360; AGN, Inquisición, vol. 425, exp 23, f. 633r–636r, Acusasción presentada por Apolonia Varela, 1641; Kessell, Hendricks, Dodge, To the Royal Crown Restored, 54; John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge, Larry D. Miller, and Richard Flint, eds. Blood on the Boulders: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694–97, Book 2 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998), 1143. (E & S) 5. Juan González appears to have also been known as Juan González Bas, who was married to Nicolasa Zaldívar Jorge. Very little is known about this man, except that he had a son named Juan González Bas, who settled in the Río Abajo area after 1693. This son held many civil and military positions of prominence, including alcalde mayor of Albuquerque. Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 189. (E & S) 6. In seventeenth-century New Mexico, manta referred to rough cotton cloth woven by Pueblo Indians and used by them and settlers as garments and bedding. Individual mantas, or squared pieces, were a common article of tribute under the encomienda system in New Mexico. (E & S) Document 21 Documents Concerning Provisions and Livestock Given by the Conventos for an Expedition against the Apaches June 16–July 4, 16691 [To] Very Reverend Father Preacher Fray Juan de Talabán, custodian and ecclesiastical judge of these provinces. June 16, 1669. Today, Sunday, which is the sixteenth of the present month, at about the hour of the Angelus, I received two letters, one from the reverend father definitor fray Fernando de Monroy, and the other from Captain Francisco Xavier.2 Both inform me that a great ambuscade of Apache enemies hurled themselves on the pueblo of Acoma and killed twelve persons of the said pueblo, carried off two women alive, eight hundred head of ganado menor, sixty head of cattle, and all the horses there were in the pueblo.3 After the said Francisco Xavier had left the [pueblo], the father definitor, as is shown by a paper of his, asked him for aid; and, having gone out to encounter the enemies, they fought valorously, and nevertheless the [enemy] killed Captain don Cristóbal de Chaves.4 The father definitor informs me that the province is lost and that the neighboring ones should be aided and defended because the Apaches are very audacious. Captain Francisco Military Service Records 133 Xavier tells me the same and that unless reprisal is made and the milpas of these rapacious enemies cut down, they will undoubtedly destroy this kingdom, for thus the said Apaches proclaim at the top of their voices and in the Spanish language. And the [Apaches] and the Salineros have congregated with those of Casa Fuerte.5 They also wounded four soldiers and many horses. I have decided to do what is possible to remedy the situation and to be in the pueblo of San Diego de Jemez on the second of the coming month of July, and I have designated it as the plaza de armas from which I shall set out with fifty soldiers and six hundred Christian Indians. The land is so impoverished as a result of such great famines and misfortunes, as your fathership knows, and it is necessary that this force have food. In the name of His Majesty I am notifying your very reverend fathership in order that you may give permission to the fathers, preachers, and guardians who might have any provisions to relieve such urgent need with them and with some head of cattle and livestock. This should be ready in the pueblo of Jemez for the second day of July, for, if there were any supplies in the kingdom, my soul, which belongs to God, is the only thing I would not give to buy them. There are none, as your very reverend fathership knows. Therefore, I give you this information and I am certain that as a faithful and loyal vassal of His Majesty you will assist on an occasion of such great urgency. In [reply to] another letter which I wrote to your very reverend fathership in April with regard to making an expedition to punish the enemy, in which I asked for the same supplies, you suggested that there were some in the pueblo of Jemez and in that of Pecos, and that I should take them. I live in such great anxiety that if your very reverend fathership were not aware [of the...

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