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Military Service Records 99 Domínguez de Mendoza and which was abandoned by him and his family in August 1680. 5. The Salinas district was located on the east side of the Manzano Mountains in the Estancia Basin and included the southern Tiwa and Tompiro Pueblo Indians. The three northern communities were the Tiwa pueblos of Chilili, Tajique, and Quarai, and the six southern communities were the Piro settlements as far south as the pueblo of Las Humanas, today known as Gran Quivira, and part of the Salinas National Monument. (E & S) Document 12 Appointment as Escudero of the Encomienda of Sargento Mayor Francisco Gómez Robledo Santa Fe, May 7, 16621 Captain and Sargento Mayor don Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Verdugo, encomendero in the kingdom of Peru, provincial alcalde of the Santa Hermandad of the city of La Paz and five provinces in its district, governor and captain general in these [provinces] of New Mexico for His Majesty, etc.2 The king, our lord (God keep him many years), has specified the number of thirty-five encomenderos, who, enjoying the tributes of the pueblos as wages, stipend, or pay, shall serve as soldiers in the continual war against infidels for the defense of what has been conquered and settled, serving with their arms and horses in person, or sending their escuderos if they have a legitimate impediment or permission from the prince or the governor who represents him. At the present time, the Holy Office of the Inquisition of Mexico City has ordered Sargento Mayor Francisco Gómez Robledo, one of the said encomenderos, to be taken prisoner.3 To fulfill the obligation of my office with regard to good military government, and in order that the frontiers and open areas, pacified and unpacified,4 may be protected against continual invasion; for the present, in consideration of the merits and services and good qualities of Captain don Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, I name and appoint him in place of the said sargento mayor in order that he may fulfill for him all the obligations and duties which the holder was obliged to perform by virtue of the office of encomendero. For his work and occupation and in order that he may maintain arms and horses, which he must keep ready and preserved, I assign to him half the tributes belonging 100 Part One to the said Francisco Gómez, reserving the other half for the maintenance of the latter while his imprisonment lasts, or until something else is ordered and commanded by the supreme government of these kingdoms and in the royal audiencia, to which tribunals I have reported, as well as to the Holy Office of the Inquisition.5 In order that he may attend to this with due care during the interim, he shall make oath of fidelity with the usual solemnity, and shall enjoy in the same way as the encomendero himself all the honors favors, preeminences, exemptions, and liberties which are conceded to him in their entirety by virtue of the said appointment. I order the alcaldes mayores to have half of the said tributes brought to him; and the Indians are charged to recognize him as such, with the declaration that they must not give him any personal service nor commute the two pesos of tribute into such [services] on account of the grave inconvenience which results from this abuse because it is a transgression of what has been ordered and determined by repeated royal cédula. Done in the Villa of Santa Fe on May 7 of the year 1662. (Seal) Don Diego de Peñalosa Briceño (rubric). By order of the governor and captain general, Juan Lucero de Godoy, secretary of government and war (rubric). Title of escudería of the encomienda of Sargento Mayor Francisco Gómez Robledo. Notes 1. BNE, Madrid, MSS 19258, photos 31–32. 2. Don Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Verdugo served as governor of New Mexico from mid-August 1661 to about February 1, 1664. For a discussion of his career, see Scholes, Troublous Times in New Mexico, chs. 5, 6, 9–11. 3. Francisco Gómez Robledo, born circa 1628, was a native of New Mexico and a son of Francisco Gómez and Ana Robledo. On May 4, 1662, his possessions were embargoed, and a record documenting his possessions was written at the corner of the plaza in Santa Fe. At this time, Gómez Robledo...

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