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86 Part One executed certain soldiers said to have been implicated in the murder of Governor Rosas. But the contemporary documents, which are incomplete, to be sure, do not record any disturbances during Pacheco y Heredia’s governorship that could be described as a mutiny. For Domínguez de Mendoza’s services at the time we have no information except that contained in the fraudulent or reconstructed documents of the Servicios Personales papers. 6. This document is among the earliest accounts of Juan de la Escallada y Castillo in New Mexico. As a soldier, he escorted the wagon trains in 1652 and 1658. He was married in New Mexico with Ynéz Lucero González and had two known daughters, who married Peralta brothers. Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 29. (E & S) Document 7 Certification of Services Santa Fe, January 12, 16531 Captain don Juan de Samaniego y Jaca, Knight of the Order of St. John, governor, chief magistrate and captain general of these provinces of New Mexico and the others adjacent to it for the king, our lord, etc. I certify to the king, our lord, and to his Royal Council of the Indies, and to the viceroys and other ministers of His Majesty who may see this, that in the year 1651, when I came here to govern this kingdom, Captain don Juan Domínguez y Mendoza accompanied me from New Spain. He had gone there to take the viceroy the dispatches concerning the new discovery he had made of the pearls and kingdom of Quivira and Texas, which he had undertaken at his own expense, as well as the said journey to Mexico City. During the period of my government he has served His Majesty in these provinces at his own cost and expense, going by my order on the expedition of the pearls, during which he carried out and fulfilled with great punctiliousness my commands and the instruction which was given to him by my order. He commanded the people whom he took with great sagacity, valor, and courage in the rude war and battle which was waged with the Escanjaques and Ayjados Indians, which lasted three days, killing a large number of them, taking prisoner more than 1600 persons, their wives and children, and rescuing from them 125 persons, Christian men, women, and children, whom the said enemies held captive for some time, as has been said.2 He gave me a good and praiseworthy accounting of this, as he also did in the expedition he made by my order to the Sierra Blanca to wage war on the common enemies of our Holy Catholic Faith, the Military Service Records 87 Apache nation, for having profaned and robbed the holy temple of Jumanos, rescuing out of their power twenty-seven women and children whom they were holding captive, together with all the rest that had been carried off, and leaving them well punished, he returned, having gained great reputation among his friends and enemies.3 And then, the following year, in an extremely severe season of snows, he set forth by my order to wage war on the said Apaches of the ranges of the Navajo and Casa Fuerte who had made an ambush in the province of the Christian Indians of the Jemez nation, killing nineteen of them and carrying off thirty-five captives with excessive boldness and daring.4 When the said captain reached the said jurisdictions he waged war on them, he captured 211 of their women and children, and took from them the Christian women who had been carried off, together with five more whom they had captured a year before, including a Spanish woman called Regina de Peralta.5 As a result the said enemies came to ask for peace, which was granted generally, and which they observe and keep today. And immediately, by my order, the said Captain don Juan Domínguez y Mendoza was sent to the pacification of the province of the Mansos because they had wanted to kill the friars, their ministers, who asked me for aid, for which purpose I sent the said captain.6 And leaving them pacified and punished, hanging two who were leaders of the revolt, he returned, having done all the above said at his own cost and expense. Therefore, I find him worthy of all the favors which His Majesty and the viceroys and governors of this kingdom may be pleased to grant him. At his petition I ordered...

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