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Military Service Records 221 Revolt of 1680. The Sebastián González who was a member of the cabildo of Santa Fe was born circa 1654, held the post of adjunct in 1680, and was married to Josefa Rico de Rojas, very likely a daughter of fellow cabildo member Pedro Sedillo Rico de Rojas. In early 1693 he held the rank of sargento mayor, declaring he had served His Majesty since 1643, and was accounted for with his wife and eight children. The other was also known as Sebastián González Bas, who later resettled in Santa Fe with his seventy-year-old mother, Polonia Varela, and several orphaned children; thus, he was a son of Juan González Bernal (see Doc. 20 n. 4). Kessell, Hendricks, and Dodge, To the Royal Crown Restored, 51, 54, 87n61; and Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 39–40, 189. (E & S) 30. Pedro Sedillo, also known as Pedro Sedillo Rico de Rojas, was born circa 1610 in Querétaro, New Spain. He married Isabel López de Gracia in New Mexico, and they resided in the Río Abajo jurisdiction prior to the Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680. Pedro Sedillo was still living in early 1693, when he registered his intent to return as a settler of New Mexico. At that time he was a widower with two sons and an Indian woman servant as part of his household. Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 103; Kessell, Hendricks, and Dodge, To the Royal Crown Restored, 50. (E & S) 31. This account of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza’s services at the time of the Pueblo Revolt does not appear in the certification in Doc. 52. 32. Francisco Romero de Pedraza, born circa 1632–1634 in New Mexico, held the post of alcalde of Santo Domingo in 1664. He was a son of Matías Romero and doña Isabel de Pedraza and married Francisca Ramírez de Salazar. Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 98; and AGN, Inquisición, vol. 586, exp. 1, f. 71v, Audiencia primera del Capitán Diego Romero, May 1663, Mexico City. (E & S) Document 47 Certification of the Personal Appearance and Services of Maestre de Campo Don Juan Domínguez de Mendoza and His Two Sons, Don Baltasar and Don Juan, Issued by the Cabildo, Justicia, and Regimiento of the Villa de Santa Fe El Paso, October 8, 16841 The cabildo, justicia, and regimiento of the Villa de Santa Fe, capital of the provinces of New Mexico, resident in this Paso del Río del Norte: The Maestre de Campo don Juan Domínguez y Mendoza, citizen of these provinces, appeared before this cabildo and presented a petition in which he makes presentation of his person and also of that of his two sons, Captain 222 Part One Baltasar Domínguez y Mendoza and don Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, both his sons out of legitimate matrimony. In the said petition, stating and alleging that in the first certification that this cabildo issued to him, dated on the third day of the present month of October of 1684, his person, the features of his face, and other signs of his person were not described, nor were those of his two sons, neither those of the said don Baltasar nor those of the said don Juan, he requests that this said cabildo, on account of the incidents that might occur, grant him the favor of doing so, as he has requested and petitioned. They are as follows: The said Maestre de Campo is a tall man, although not excessively so, of good stature, black-haired of goodly countenance, somewhat dark in complexion and going gray, has a good mustache, and appears to be about sixty years of age. He has three wounds, all on the left side. The first is in a shoulder blade, which was broken at the Peñol de Acoma and as a result he has a withered shoulder. The second is in his left hand, the whole span of the said hand being cleft. The third is above the knee on the said left side, across the thigh, and he has another wound on the right side of his head. He received these in active wars, and this cabildo knows it was in the royal service of His Majesty, serving him at his own cost and expense, as is proven by his papers, which he presented for the second time, with two additional titles, one...

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