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Military Service Records 93 Navaho, and Spaniard, states, “The whole affair of 1658 seems to be pure fiction . . . as the document appears to be a forgery” (150). Actually, some of the details are accurate, the day and month of fray Pedro’s martyrdom, for instance. The fabrications all point toward the same end—the enhancement of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza’s record or services on behalf of the Crown. (E & S) 4. Juan Lucero de Godoy, a son of Pedro Lucero de Godoy and Petronila de Zamora, was born around 1624–1625 in the Villa de Santa Fe and began to serve as a soldier at age seventeen in 1641. He had a lengthy career in service to the king, declaring in 1693 that he had served for fifty-two years. Juan Lucero de Godoy first married doña Luisa Romero, daughter of Matías Romero and doña Isabel de Pedraza, in Santa Fe on April 8, 1641, and then married doña Juana de Carvajal. The ceremony for his first marriage took place in the palacio of the Villa de Santa Fe. In 1662, Juan Lucero de Godoy was still secretary of government when he and his sister, Catalina de Zamora, gave testimony before Inquisition officials in the case against Governor López de Mendizábal. Both declared they were castizo, whereas their father declared he was español, indicating that their mother was part Indian. Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 60. AGN, Inquisición, vol. 593, f. 192v, Ratification of the testimony of Juan Lucero de Godoy, November 1, 1661, Villa de Santa Fe; AGN, Inquisición, vol. 629, exp. 2, ff. 118v–119r, Testimony of Sargento Mayor Juan Lucero de Godoy, age 50, May 27, 1675, Villa de Santa Fe; and AGN, Inquisición, vol. 586, exp.1, f. 82r, Audiencia de Diego Romero, July 7, 1663, Ciudad de México; and AGN, Inquisición, vol. 587, pp. 386–87, bound typescript, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico. (E & S) Document 10 Commission as Captain of Mounted Harquebusiers Santa Fe, August 30, 16591 Captain don Bernardo López de Mendizábal, governor and captain general of the kingdom and provinces of New Mexico for the king, our lord, etc.2 It is necessary to punish the hostile Indians of the Apache nation, destroy their power, and lay waste their sowings, in order that they may not have occasion to commit greater assaults than those they have made since I arrived to govern this kingdom, which I found greatly harassed by the said enemies on account of the booty they have carried off and because they have killed many Christian natives and taken others as slaves. At the beginning of my government the said enemies failed to come to reaffirm peace as they 94 Part One have done in the time of my predecessors, although such peaceful relations have been assumed in order to assure in this way the citizens and natives of this kingdom. Fearing that this dissimulation might occasion greater harm, at the first of this month I sent Captain Luis Martínez in command of the ten mounted Spanish harquebusiers and thirty Christian Indians in order that he might reconnoiter the state of the said enemies and their designs.3 In this endeavor he seized two of them of their nation, whom he brought to me. Having been amply informed that all those of their nation are eager to make great attacks and to continue their robberies and killings, in order to prevent such grave difficulties, I have recruited eight hundred Christian Indians and a company of forty mounted Spanish harquebusiers so that all possible punishment may be inflicted on the said enemies. In order that such an action may have complete success, it is necessary to name a captain of the said company, as well as of the Christian Indians, a person of entire satisfaction, valor, practice, and experience. Because these and many other qualities concur in you, Alférez don Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, and in consideration of your services, and quality, and of the fact that you are the legitimate son of Captain Tomé Domínguez, who has also served His Majesty many years in this kingdom and has held the best posts, both of justice and of war, and has held many times the office of lieutenant of the governor and captain general for some of my predecessors ; and because you have served His Majesty with outstanding...

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