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Military Service Records 149 Done in the Villa of Santa Fe on the second day of the month of August of the year 1671. (Seal) Juan de Miranda (rubric). By order of the governor and captain general. Francisco Xavier, Secretary of government and war (rubric). Notes 1. BNE, Madrid, MSS 19258, photos 67–69. 2. The manuscript reads as if the date was August 27, but the scribe obviously meant July 27. 3. Salvador Olguín was a native of New Mexico, born circa 1637, and a son of Cristóbal Holguín and Melchora de Carvajal. He survived the wound described in this document, and with his wife, nine children, and ten servants, he also survived the Pueblo Indian Revolt of August 1680. In the document above, Salvador Olguín is apparently misnamed as Salvador Durán. There was a contemporary named Salvador Durán who was also a soldier, who was born sometime around 1640–1650 in New Mexico. Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 28, 82. (E & S) Document 26 Certification of Services Santa Fe, January 26, 16721 Captain don Juan Rodríguez de Medrano Messía, governor and captain general of these provinces of New Mexico and the others adjacent to it, and judge general of bienes de difuntos for the king our lord, etc.2 I certify to the king our lord in his royal Council of the Indies, to the most excellent lord viceroy and the royal tribunal of New Spain, who may see the present writing, that I know Maestre de Campo don Juan Domínguez y Mendoza, citizen of this villa and encomendero in these provinces, and I have seen him serve His Majesty more than three years, exercising the post of maestre de campo of this kingdom in an entirely satisfactory manner. As is proved by his papers which he presented to me, [he is] a hidalgo, well known, outstanding, and honored, and he proves by the said papers that he has served His Majesty in these provinces more than thirty-six years at his own cost and expense, and during the said time he has occupied all the posts of militia and republic which there are in this kingdom, as is shown by the said papers, and I consider them the most brilliant services of this kingdom. He is one of 150 Part One its first settlers, bringing to it for this purpose a number of families at his own expense, as is shown by said papers, which proves the many expenditures he has made in the royal services of His Majesty. His family is among the most important of this kingdom, and he has two sons who are now serving His Majesty as soldiers. The oldest is called Captain don Baltasar Domínguez y Mendoza, and the second, don Juan Domínguez de Mendoza. In the royal oath and acclamation of the king, our lord, don Carlos II, which was made in this villa on the twenty-seventh day of October of the past year of ’69, in which the said maestre de campo participated as alcalde ordinario of this villa, he excelled with all brilliancy in the royal fiestas. The aforesaid directed [these fiestas] and paid the expenses, on which he expended many ducats, for they were held according to the custom in similar fiestas and functions, and the said maestre de campo don Juan Domínguez y Mendoza brought out the boy who played the part of the king with all splendor in a triumphal car on the afternoon of the royal oath and the night of the masquerade. In all that pertained to him in this function the said maestre de campo, and his son don Baltasar as well, performed the obligations of their blood as faithful and loyal vassals of His Majesty. I find the said Maestre de Campo don Juan Domínguez y Mendoza most worthy and deserving of all the favors His Majesty and the lords viceroy of New Spain and lords governor of this kingdom may be pleased to do him, for he will give a good account of himself as he has always done. And in order that it may be on record, I granted the present writing at the petition of the said Maestre de Campo don Juan Domínguez y Mendoza. Done in the Villa de Santa Fe of New Mexico. Countersigned by the undersigned secretary on the twenty-sixth day of the month of January of 1672. Signed...

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