By David Snow As the result of an unidentified illness, María de Jesús Trujillo, 43 years old, died at her home in Albuquerque's Los Poblanos in mid June of 1855 (AASF, 1854-59, roll 34, frame 33). The inventory of her estate was filed October 10 by administrator José Manuel…
By Rick Hendricks Keynote Address Three Trails Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 18 September 2015 I consider myself something of a Jack of All Trails. In the course of what is beginning to seem like a rather long career, I have been researching, lecturing, and writing about New Mexico history…
Transcription by Rick Hendricks Proclama Alvino Perez, Coronel de la Caballeria de Ejercito Permanente, Comandante Principal, y Gefe Superior Politico de este Territorio, á las Tropas de su mando, y a sus habitantes. Compatriotas: los Susesos Ocurridos en Tejas, me impelen á diri- giros la palabra por 2ª…
San Miguel del Vado Grant by J. J. Bowden Lorenzo Marquez, for himself and fifty-one associates, petitioned the Governor of New Mexico, Fernando Chacon, for a grant covering the lands located on both sides of the Pecos River at the ford known as El Vado. The petitioners acknowledged that…
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El Paso del Norte After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the Spanish colonists retreat to El Paso along with members of the Tigua and Piro tribes. A century later, a garrison was founded in San Elizario. After Mexican independence, Juan Maria Ponce de Leon established a hacienda in what…
Luis Lopez The Mexican period community of Luis López first appears in a list of New Mexico settlements compiled by Manuel Armijo in 1840 (Carroll and Haggard 1942:93; Marshall and Walt 1984:278). On 29 July 1846, Wislizenus mentioned a small town named Lopez; on his map he marked it…
Los Chaves The settlement of Los Chávez, on the west bank of the Río Grande, dates to a 1738 grant to Nicolás Durán y Chávez from Atrisco. In 1790 it consisted of six plazas (Julyan 1996:78; Espinosa and Chávez 1967:41- 43). It was included in the 1802 census (Olmsted…
Pajarito A violent dispute over land between the Pueblo of Isleta and the nearby estancia of “Paxarito” was discussed during the 1663 trial of Governor López Mendizábal of New Mexico before the Inquisition in Mexico City (Primera Audiencia de don Bernardo López de Mendizábal, 1663). Juan Candelaria thought that…
