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The Pedro Armendaris Grant No. 33 by Michael Miller Pedro Ascue de Armendaris was the collector of tithes and was the former First Lieutenant at the garrison in San Elizario. In 1819, he petitioned for the first of three land grants in the southern part of Nuevo Mexico. …
Elena Gallegos, daughter of Antonio Gallegos and Catalina Baca, was one of the Hispanic colonists of New Mexico who was present at the time of the Pueblo Revolt. Gallegos was a child in 1680, and fled south with her family, returning sometime after the Spanish re-occupation of New Mexico in…
Judge A. A. Freeman Opinion: Ellis vs. Newbrough and Howland The opinion of Judge Freeman, issued by the New Mexico Supreme Court 19 August 1891 defies easy summary. Lee Priestly probably did the best job, calling it “ten rollicking pages of ridicule.” Transcript: JESSE M. ELLIS, Appellee, v. JOHN…
Testamento del finado Manuel Martínez (1775-1842) Transcribed from copy of original document by Vicente M. Martínez and Elena Nápoles Goldfeder, PhD. En el nombre de Dios Todopoderoso y de nuestra Señora la Virgen María concebida sin mancha de pecado original desde el primer instante de su ser Purísima, Amen….
WPA Writers Project Interview with Elfego Baca By Janet Smith for the WPA Writer's Project "I never wanted to kill anybody," Elfego Baca told me, "but if a man had it in his mind to kill me, I made it my business to get him first." Elfego Baca belongs…
An essay about the Abiquiu Land Grant written for the Center of Land Grant Studies. The Abiquiú Genízaro Grant The Abiquiú Genízaro Grant is the only grant made exclusively to genízaro Indians, that is Plains Indians and Navajos who were captured and sold to Spaniards mainly for use as…
Land, Violence and Death: The Bartolome Baca Grant. by Michael Miller In 1819, Bartolome Baca petitioned Governor Facundo Melgares for a grant covering a tract of land situated east of the Abo mountains near a place called Torreon. He described the boundaries to the governor in this way: “On the north,…
Former Surveyor General George Julian published an article in the North American Review attacking the Beaubien-Miranda Grant as an “astounding piracy of the public domain.” His article prompted the New Mexico Bar Association to recommend to Congress a special tribunal to investigate all unconfirmed private land claims in New…
Isaac Hamilton Rapp was a pioneering architect in what came to be known as the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style. By Paul Weideman Isaac Hamilton Rapp (1854-1933) was a pioneering architect in what came to be known as the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style or “Santa Fe Style.” Illinois natives, Isaac Rapp and…
By Don J. Usner Two hundred years ago, Gervacio Ortega, my fourth great-grandfather, returned to Chimayó from a trip out to the eastern plains to hunt bison, only to find that his father, Manuel Ortega, had died in his absence. Furthermore, Gervacio’s stepmother had claimed Manuel’s property for herself…
