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Military Service Records 193 de Guadalajara Bernardo y Quiros, born circa 1640, Santa Fe, daughter of don Diego de Guadalajara and doña Josefa de Zamora. AGN, Inquisición, vol. 610, exp. 7, f. 63r, Carta a Fray Alonso de Posada, 1667; AGN, Inquisición, vol. 608, f. 419r, Testimony of Doña Jacinto de Guadalajara, April 17, 1667 Estancia de San Antonio; Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 43, 97. (E & S) Document 44 Certification June 23, 16841 Maestre de Campo Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, captain, commander, and chief of this detachment which was formed for the new discovery of the east and conquest of the kingdom of Tejas, etc. Insofar as I can, I certify to the royal and Catholic Majesty of the king, our lord, and to all the viceroys, governors, presidents, and oidores of all his kingdoms and dominions who may see the present writing, that on the first day of the month of December of the year 1683 the reverend fathers preachers, fray Nicolás López, custodian and ecclesiastical judge ordinary of these provinces, father fray Juan Zabaleta, commissary of the Holy Office, and father fray Antonio de Acevedo set forth from this post of El Paso del Río del Norte de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, apostolically, on foot, with their staffs in their hands, barefooted, and with their breviaries under their arms, and they went toward the east, downriver. At a distance of a hundred leagues, which the said fathers had traveled on foot among many barbarous nations, I overtook them and found them at the junction of the Río de Conchos with the Río del Norte. There they had already built two chapels and reduced seven nations, to whom they were administering the holy sacraments which don Juan Sabeata, an Indian of the Jumano nation, gave, saying that inland toward the east there were many more nations who were asking for the water of baptism, the said father custodian, fray Nicolás López, decided to leave father fray Antonio de Acevedo alone there apostolically in order that he might carry on the administration of the said seven nations. We set out from there marching on the twenty-eighth of the said month of December, and the said reverend fathers fray Nicolás López and fray Juan 194 Part One Zabaleta accompanied me. I appealed to these reverend fathers that they should desist from going on foot because of the rigors of the winter and the length of the journey, and because their feet were sore and their habits torn by the roughness of the country; as well as for the greater safety of their lives since upon their preservation the reduction of the many souls to our Holy Catholic Faith might depend. The said fathers, seeing that my petition was just, assented to it. We traveled inland more than three hundred leagues toward the east, undergoing insufferable hardships of hunger and wars which the Indians of the Apache and Salineros nations waged against us, there being only myself and ten men accompanying the said reverend fathers. They took vocabularies they had made of the language of the Indians of the Jumano nation, and they went preaching the Holy Gospel to the infidels in their language, and to many other nations who rendered obedience to God, our Lord, and to the royal and Catholic Majesty, which are the said sixty-six nations. All of these asked the said reverend father fray Nicolás López for the water of baptism, and we also learned from ambassadors whom the Indians of the kingdom of Tejas sent that they were asking for the water of baptism, but, because of the small forces I had, I could not proceed to such important matter as offered themselves in the service of both Majesties, in whose name, divine and human, possession was taken on the river which was given the name San Clemente; and a pact was made with the said sixty-six nations and with many others whose ambassadors were present. On this occasion, during the period we waited there, which was a month and a half, a suitable chapel was built by the hands of the said reverend father custodian and fray Juan Zabaleta, the fathers working in person aided by the infidel Indians of the Jumano and other nations. Among the latter there were some Christian Indians. There, after the chapel had been finished, the holy sacraments and...

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