Land Grants through the centuries of New Mexico History
by J. J. Bowden Bernabé Manuel Montano and eleven other persons, all residents of the Town of Albuquerque, petitioned Governor Tomas Velez Cachupin asking him to grant them a tract of vacant land situated on the Rio Puerco and lying about twenty miles west of that town. The petitioners…
by J. J. Bowden Mariano S. Otero filed a petition in Surveyor General George W. Julian’s office on September 28, 1887 seeking the confirmation of a grant which allegedly had been made to Joe García sometime prior to the year 1762, covering a tract of land bounded: On the…
by J. J. Bowden Early in the month of January, 1768, Ignacio Chaves, Tomas Chaves, Miguel Antonio Chaves, Antonio Chaves and Domingo de Luna, all residents of the Town of Artrisco, appeared before Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta and registered a tract of vacant land which they estimated to…
by J. J. Bowden The only serious attempt by Spain or Mexico to Christianize the Navajo Indians was made in 1746 by Padre Juan Menchero. He induced several hundred Navajos to settle at the place known as Cebolleta, which was located on the Pojuate River about eleven miles north…
by J. J. Bowden Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco and Pedro Padillo appeared before Governor Pedro Fermín de Mendinueta and advised him that their livestock were suffering due to their not having enough land to properly pasture them. Therefore, they requested Mendinueta to grant them a tract of vacant…
by J. J. Bowden Retired Corporal Luis Jaramillo, a resident of Santa Fe, appeared before Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta and registered a tract of vacant land situated on the slope of Navajo country, which he described as being bounded: On the north, by the lands of Antonio Baca; on…
by J. J. Bowden Bartolome Fernandez, brevet ensign at the Garrison of Santa Fe, appeared before Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta and registered a tract of vacant land located on the watershed of “the Navajo Province” for the pasturing of his livestock. The tract was described as being bounded:…
by J. J. Bowden Felipe Tafoya, an attorney and resident of Santa Fe, petitioned Governor Tomas Velez Cachupin on behalf of Diego Antonio and Pedro Chaves, residents of the Town of Atrisco, seeking a grant covering a tract of vacant land located west of the Salvador Jaramillo Grant. He…
by J. J. Bowden Carlos Jose Perez de Mirabal, a native of Castile, Spain, petitioned Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta requesting a grant covering the tract of land which he had been occupying for the previous eight years. He described the tract as being situated on the slopes of…
by J. J. Bowden Baltazar Baca, a resident of the Town of Belen, petitioned Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta on December 16, 1768 requesting a land grant. He stated that he had a large family and a herd of livestock but was without sufficient land to adequately provide for…
